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.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Breaking (broken) news...
I just got a Meijer's gas price text alert! Wait a minute... Oil is down, so is this just another bad message from them, or are we looking at $4+ gas later today? See my other blog posts about the unreliability of these text alerts.
Letter to SJ-R about posting gas prices..
I think it's a great idea for the consumer to have current gas prices available to them. Since, as we've already seen so many time, gas prices fluctuate rapidly sometimes, the immediacy of online makes the most sense, in my opinion. Well, I guess I should say that the prices fluctuate rapidly when the prices are going up, but are sloooow when trickling back down.
Channel 20?? Give me a break. From a convenience stand point, that doesn't work as the consumer has to be watching/listening when the prices are being presented. That doesn't work nearly as well as having prices available when you want to look. That's part of the power of the Internet. What you want, when you want it.
I don't know about you all, but I get the vast majority of my news online now. I can get exactly the stories I want without having to watch/listen to other stories waiting to get to what I'm interested in and, online, I can get much more detail if that's what I want. TV/Radio news is 20th Century.
Anyway, this blog is here for you folks in Springfield, Illinois to use. Feel free to comment.
"Rajah"
Channel 20?? Give me a break. From a convenience stand point, that doesn't work as the consumer has to be watching/listening when the prices are being presented. That doesn't work nearly as well as having prices available when you want to look. That's part of the power of the Internet. What you want, when you want it.
I don't know about you all, but I get the vast majority of my news online now. I can get exactly the stories I want without having to watch/listen to other stories waiting to get to what I'm interested in and, online, I can get much more detail if that's what I want. TV/Radio news is 20th Century.
Anyway, this blog is here for you folks in Springfield, Illinois to use. Feel free to comment.
"Rajah"
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