I have noticed recently that the price for Premium is not necessarily 20 (that used to be the norm so they never posted the price for premium) cents higher than the posted price for regular at the stations here in Columbus. Now it is anywhere from 22 –26 cents higher than regular. Is this the case anywhere else?

 

The station I buy gas at here in Fl I find it runs 15 cents higher.

 

Premium gas is still about 20 cents higher than regular in my area (Dallas). ski

 

I am going to school about an hour away from columbus...and the place where i usually go to get my gas ( a local BP) is 20 cents higher...but i have seen some in ohio running for 22-24 cents higher...crazy ohio

 

Ditto on the price out here in So Cal also...

Chow!

Donna

 

Cincy here, 20 cents is the norm for the differential between regular and premium.

 

Twenty cents from regular unleaded to premium is the norm in Houston, as well. When I bought gas on Saturday, it was $1.81/$1.91/$2.01.

 

stop your complaining.... I paid $2.45 yesterday in Irvine, Ca.....

 

Yikes! I had no idea that gas in California was so much higher than here in Texas.

 

Yeah, darndest thing... Actually, the thing about trends in gas prices that's surprised me lately, is that they haven't really gone up much. With oil going from $35/barrel earlier in the year to $50/barrel, gas prices here are still slightly below their peak early in the year. Since refiners seem to normally use any excuse to push their prices up, I'm really surprised. Eventually, I think we're in for significantly higher prices.

 

The price of gas will go up,alot,but the high price of crude is a long way from what we pay at the pump,daily.Regional supply,local gas wars,local supply and demand play into what you may pay at the pump.Not to mention that the crude is a small part of what goes into "gas".

 

Here in Virginia the price differential is 7 cents between regular and plus, and 7 cents between plus and premium. Larger price differentials may be due to special state requirements for oxygenated fuels in winter months to cut down on pollution, or taxes.

 

keep in mind that the prices for a barrel of oil that you hear on the news is NOT what they are paying today, but rather what they will be paying in a couple of months....


so you can be sure that the prices will go way up in the next little while..

glad a bought a car with realtively good gas mileage..

if I could only keep my right foot from going all the way to the floor..

 

Everything you say is true. Which is why I've never understood why, although it takes months for more expensive oil to make it to the pump as gasoline, the price of gasoline still seems to rise and fall almost exactly with the price of oil, except lately. Your reply made me wonder if I was imagining things so I researched it a little. Try Google "gasoline and oil price coorelation." The results seem to confirm my impression of prices moving together. In particular: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...ice_change.pdf
Check the charts on page 19.

I don't know why prices are staying low in the face or record oil prices, but I'm glad for now. And glad that, even when I'm pushing it in the MINI, I'm still not using that much gas.

 

Premium is around $2.60 a gallon in Southern California right now. Ouch...

 

The best price I'm seeing for premium here in West L.A. is $2.39, but I see prices up to $2.69 and beyond!

When the futures prices for oil comes into the market, we will be paying higher prices, yet.


Clover

 

I don't really mind (as much) paying a little more for gasoline for the car. What really burns me is how much home heating oil has gone up. For those of you without oil heat, home heating fuel is essentially diesel. Last summer, my husband and I paid 91 cents a gallon (that's tax-free). This week, the lowest price we could find is 1.62 a gallon. When you are buying about 400 gallons of fuel to last half the winter, that really adds up. And what baffles me is that the price at the pump was about the same last year as it is this year.

But to answer the first question, I have noticed that a few stations here in PA have been charging a bit more than the typical 20 cents for premium. Most, however, have been charging the normal rate. Perhaps you are just frequenting the wrong stations?

 

as I recall, a barrel is 50 gallons. Therefore, $50/barrel equals $1/gallen, just in the cost of the crude alone.

 

I think I read somewhere it costs about 22cents a gallon to refine

 

Yeah, I don't think we'll be seeing gas prices going down anytime soon, either.

I think yesterday crude oil was going for over 52.00/barrell. Ouch!

 

I paid $2.19 per gallon yesterday for 93 octane. Highest price I have ever paid.

 

http://www.losangelesgasprices.com

At least in the Pasadena area, there are enough contributors that I've found this site to be pretty helpful. It tracks regular unleaded gas prices, but usually the premium prices follow it pretty closely (exceptions seem to be Arco, who has a lower unleaded in comparison to their premium prices vs most places).

 

Most local prices for premium around here (here being halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach) are 22 cents above regular although I saw one station today where the differential was 18 cents.

 

I'm afraid people in the UK have a better argument against this.

Just got home from filling up, $2.48 for 91 octane at Shell. I went to a place about 1.5 mile from my house instead of the place 500ft away from my house which was $2.55. Maybe going that extra 3 miles cancels out it's lower price but oh well, I got to drive my car longer

 

$2.63 today...was $2.55 yesterday and $2.51 the day before.