Just the opposite here…Wal-Mart was 2.95 and climbing

Dropped to $2.79 (from $2.81) here this morning at my usual place.

Someone posted on GasBuddy that it was $2.71 at Sam’s this morning.  Can’t confirm that.  No change at the stations I normally pass-$2.75 to $2.79.

Gas up about $.10/gal today.  I gassed up at Sam’s for $2.80.  Most places $2.84 to $2.88.

Same here. Jumped to $2.87 at the usual place today, and most others as well. Did see just one place at $2.83.

Must be the public’s Christmas present.

On the way to coffee this morning I saw it had jumped from $2.87 to $2.95. About an hour later, on the way home, it was back down to $2.87. Phhht.

The single most lame, journalistically lazy explanation I’ve seen for the surge in gas prices was one I read this morning: “investors are confident.” That writer deserves bitch-slap.

Creeping back down here.  Many at $2.81.

Back to $2.95 this morning. Excuses I read: China did something; the winter storm in the Northeast; OPEC won’t meet again until June.

Translation: your average person is far too accustomed to utter bullshit.

Holding so far at $2.81 or thereabouts today.

$3.09 at WalMart today.Cheapest is down the street from me @$3.04

There are some places in town, I see, still at $2.87, thought my benchmark place is still at $2.95.

Maybe they’re just trying to avoid an unscheduled shipment again.

Down to $2.87 on the way to coffee this morning, but back up to $2.93 when I returned from coffee.

I quote this place because it’s the sign I see most. But I seldom fill up there these days. Just as well. As I’ve said, their gas prices sometimes have nothing to do with the price of gas.