GasBuddies Central Illinois meeting #6.

It will be May 22, 2010 at Buffalo Wild Wings in Champaign, IL. Click here for latest details.

See ya there!

Rajah

Here we are in May and the next downstate GB meeting is coming up. It's Saturday May 16th at Noon. Check with Rajah or email him at springfieldgas@gmail.com for directions if you need them. Free pizza and soda. I'd like to see more of the local folks this time.

Gas Buddies Meeting #5 in Springfleld.

The meeting was been postponed. The new date is May 16th.

Illinois Gas Buddies meeting #4

It looks like it's going to be Sept 13, 2008 at Avanti's in East Peoria. For updates see the thread in the forums here. Looks like a very nice venue. Hope to see you there.

Meanwhile, here in Springfield today, the pre-weekend price spike is taking place. $3.87 up to $4.05 or so. Spike up and trickle down. Same old thing.

What the ??? The Springfieldgas web site was down.

It's not clear to me what happened there at http://springfieldgas.googlepages.com , but google took that site down, stating that it violated their policy. I wrote them using the contact form that the message linked to and within 10 minutes the site was back up. I wonder what happened?

Anyway Animenut was kind enough to let me know so I could try to do something about it. Animenut also asked about another Springfield Gas Buddies meeting. It sounds like a good idea to me, although it hasn't been too long, but I think some folks who would have liked to be here couldn't make it. What do you all think? Comments?

I don't know about you, but our Summer yard work is in full swing and we're having a Father's Day cook out here tomorrow. Hope everyone's Summer is off to a good start.

I know I've mentioned it before, but I finally opted out of the Meijer's text alerts. It just got to be worthless, in my opinion. Thoughts?

Rajah

Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all my Gas Buds..

I guess that with oil over $130 a barrel and the holiday weekend impending, it's no big surprise that gas is now over $4.00 for regular here in Springfield. The Meijer's text alert was actually timely for a change.

Our plans haven't changed as we'll be enjoying the long weekend in our favorite place... our home. We might burn a little local gas and go see the new Indiana Jones movie, but nothing planned out of town.

Stay in touch! Drive carefully .... if you can actually afford to drive.

The latest spike..

I guess we're now seeing the time-delayed price increase that Meijer's text messages predicted yesterday. I see that they were reported as $3.85 at 8:00 this morning, so the text message was bogus again.

I understand that the Chatham BP jumped to $4.11 last night! In Springfield this morning, I'm now seeing $3.97 at multiple stations being reported. My wife managed to top-up one of our cars at the Wabash Road Ranger which was getting $3.85 for regular. The Shell on Wabash a few blocks West had already jumped to the new $3.97 for regular price.