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All-In [44477]
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What's up with gas prices?
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:43 AM
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and just help me understand.
Seems like a couple of weeks ago it went from like $2.95 to like $3.18 seemingly overnight. This was on a Thursday IIRC. By Monday back down to under $3.00.
A day or so ago, same shid. Went up like .20 or .30 per gallon.
What is causing the wild fluctuations? Is it as simple as demand growing on nice weekends, spring break travel, or something like that?
Hopefully someone can provide a better answer than blaming some politician on pulling a lever, cuz that's not how this works.
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Easy answer
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:47 AM
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Dark Brandon
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:49 AM
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Whatever that means
I'd say it has more to do with Spring Break price gouging, higher demands, and switching from Winter mixes to Spring mixes maybe.
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I've already made the switch.
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:09 AM
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Oculus Spirit [87037]
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New phone
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:51 AM
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Houthis?
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Oculus Spirit [87037]
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Speaking of the phone, please hold it....
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:05 AM
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Did I just create a very humorous meme?
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I'm just happy I can tell my grandkids
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:12 AM
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I was here when this was created. well done bro, well done.
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Oculus Spirit [77190]
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The real problem is the crooked politicians
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:53 AM
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All they have to do is pull a lever and prices go up or down. It’s crazy that we allow this! Drain the swamp!!!
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Oculus Spirit [87037]
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Remember when those hacker nerds hacked the pipelines?
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:55 AM
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That sucked.
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Yep. 2 weeks ago I paid 2.89. passed by same station today and it was 3.29.***
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Mar 15, 2024, 10:54 AM
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It's basic economics.
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:01 AM
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The price is set based upon the addition of the number that Leelee Sobieski gets from the toss of a pair of octagonal dice plus the number that Brad Brownell gets on his Magic 8 Ball divided by the number of Joungers that actually buy a vehicle based on Obed's advice. This was all foretold in Adam Smith's 1776 masterwork 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'.
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lemme fill you in on a secret tip. guaranteed to make money
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:02 AM
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buy low, sell high
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I saved Tiggitys last reply to this question.
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:04 AM
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“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: “If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette Schérer.” “Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned. “Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You are staying the whole evening, I hope?” “And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter is coming for me to take me there.” “I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” “If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. “Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to correct. In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pávlovna burst out: “Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. “I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me a cup of tea?” “In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “I am expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been received by the Emperor. Had you heard?” “I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “But tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all accounts is a poor creature.” Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure it for the baron. Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was pleased with. “Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: “Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly beautiful.”
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Re: I saved Tiggitys last reply to this question.
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:07 AM
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Oculus Spirit [98363]
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the station I filled up at yesterday for $2.87 is $3.19 today
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:13 AM
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I got lucky looks like stopping yesterday until waiting until today to fill up. Saved over $5 easy.
$0.32 increase overnight is downright cruel. Yet somehow, price only goes DOWN a nickel at a time. You never see a stark decrease.
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I'm hearing you, but I'm telling ya the other week it went WAY up
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:25 AM
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then a few days later WAY back down, to like where it was.
Weird.
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Oculus Spirit [98363]
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It is odd, but I think the higher number is the trend
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:32 AM
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Murphy near our house yesterday was $2.87. 7-11 was $3.29 (less than a mile away). Today..... both are $3.29.
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Spring break, people driving for those trips on the weekend
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Mar 15, 2024, 11:33 AM
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But it's definitely NOT price fixing or collusion
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Re: What's up with gas prices?
Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 PM
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The sand people said they were going to cut supply.
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Capitalism and manipulation
Mar 15, 2024, 12:49 PM
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Profits keep going up.
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Should be plummeting with errbody buyin up dem lectric cars.***
Mar 15, 2024, 4:00 PM
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For the musty ones
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Mar 15, 2024, 5:58 PM
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yes, cost of deodorant is absolutely insane
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Mar 15, 2024, 6:49 PM
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about 2-3 years ago some store (Walgreens or CVS) had a buy one/get one free sale on my fave roll-on. They were 2/$2.50 or something like that. I bought about two dozen of them over the week they were on sale.
I'm just about out of my stash. Now they are $5+ each, I checked. Sucks.
Why didn't I do that with other daily-use items? Kicking myself. Hate spending big $$ on this kind of crap.
Wish I could go back about 3 years and load up on non-perishable things like this (dishwasher soap, deodorant, shaving cream, etc.) that have doubled in price. I would drop $1000 on about 10-year supply of this kind of stuff.
If we had only known......
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Re: yes, cost of deodorant is absolutely insane
Mar 15, 2024, 11:30 PM
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I'm just not understanding the reason why. 3 years ago the world shut down, and freight/packaging/etc... were very high. Here were are doubling the price in 2-3 years?
What the kuff
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