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West Coast motorists: prepare to get clobbered

GasBuddy Blog -- In my post Monday, I highlighted that gasoline prices would be falling nationally with the exception of the West Coast. I can't highlight this enough for those who may not have read it, and want to hold me personally responsible later for my forecast, so here it is again. Prepare to get clobbered.

Motorists in California should take note the most. We're also likely to see collateral damage in Oregon, Washington, perhaps even Nevada and Arizona, but to a lesser extent in those last two, respectively.

Prices in these areas could shoot up dramatically in the next few days or week, in the worst areas it could have risen 25-40 cents per gallon since the start of May by the time the increases are over. California could see the...

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Submitted May 10, 2012 By: PD

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honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,599 Points:1,607,570 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: May 16, 2012 5:56:47 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse the usual media hype fueling price hikes.
clpassenubye Champion Author Los Angeles Posts:3,359 Points:751,730 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: May 15, 2012 2:34:34 PM Ignore clpassenubye Report Abuse its already happening
blueBMW480 Champion Author Nashville Posts:818,391 Points:837,815 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: May 14, 2012 8:02:26 PM Ignore blueBMW480 Report Abuse Interesting
drpepperTX Champion Author Texas Posts:8,929 Points:750,035 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: May 14, 2012 1:16:01 PM Ignore drpepperTX Report Abuse Tomkatz66, sure it's nuts but somebody has to be buying it at those prices, 'caveat emptor'. You asked earlier, who is pocketing the profits? The answer there is not the oil companies but the station owner/operator.
clpassenubye Champion Author Los Angeles Posts:3,359 Points:751,730 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: May 14, 2012 1:00:00 PM Ignore clpassenubye Report Abuse its a crime
Tomkatz66 Rookie Author Syracuse Posts:11 Points:144,470 Joined:Oct 2010	Message Posted: May 14, 2012 10:48:38 AM Ignore Tomkatz66 Report Abuse drpepperTX, At this time, most people here are very stressed and concerned about keeping their jobs. When questioned about fuel price hunting, many just respond "I don't have time for that I just go to the nearest station". That may sound, dumb or weird, but these are difficult times for most people. I saw a Chevron station in South Florida this morning charging $4.59/gal.Reg. Now thats nuts.
chillyman3 Champion Author Illinois Posts:1,355 Points:422,890 Joined:Jan 2012	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 11:35:31 PM Ignore chillyman3 Report Abuse another reason for the media scare someone to raise gas prices somewhere. There are not any refinery outages. M= make a bunch of crap up E= exaggerate to the public so your packets can get padded with money D= drive up gas prices I= Instill fear A= All will pay because of our lies
drpepperTX Champion Author Texas Posts:8,929 Points:750,035 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 8:05:51 PM Ignore drpepperTX Report Abuse Tomkatz66, the real question is who in their right mind is patronizing the $3.99 station when gas in the $3.30's is close by?
Tomkatz66 Rookie Author Syracuse Posts:11 Points:144,470 Joined:Oct 2010	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 7:54:29 PM Ignore Tomkatz66 Report Abuse Very Interesting! In South Florida one city is having a gas war. Major brands Reg. $3.34/Gal. Yet, just a few miles up the interstate, the price jumps to $3.99/gal. Is that nuts or what? The entire East coast from Florida to New York, regular fuel prices vary as much as $.65 cents a gal. But in some cases the disparity is less than three miles apart. Something smells rotten here. Just who is pocketing the profits? Where are our wonderful goverment bureacrats now?
1006 Champion Author Birmingham Posts:1,105 Points:1,352,665 Joined:Apr 2008	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 7:05:26 PM Ignore 1006 Report Abuse that is gonna leave a mark
Donatelo Champion Author Dayton Posts:1,118 Points:291,825 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 11:04:37 AM Ignore Donatelo Report Abuse ok
albert2008 Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:7,337 Points:1,478,085 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 8:38:21 AM Ignore albert2008 Report Abuse time will tell
KAR120CSII Champion Author Oregon Posts:3,167 Points:618,645 Joined:Apr 2010	Message Posted: May 13, 2012 2:17:56 AM Ignore KAR120CSII Report Abuse Thanks for the warning -- or was it to soften the blow? One station in town has raised it's prices 3 times since Friday morning -- when they got their last delivery -- from $3.89 to $4.03 (Fred Meyer). A Happy Mothers Day present. Bless them.
Nippor Champion Author California Posts:2,506 Points:448,540 Joined:Aug 2011	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 11:00:48 PM Ignore Nippor Report Abuse Check out my avatar. $6.66 at my local Chevron station today!
sluggopyle Champion Author North Carolina Posts:23,608 Points:1,075,890 Joined:Dec 2005	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 10:41:43 PM Ignore sluggopyle Report Abuse => They need to get more than clobbered, they need to be eliminated. Most of the trouble in this country starts there. <= and this comment was posted from... ... wait for it... -- Florida! :-D You can't make this stuff up. [Edited by: sluggopyle at 5/12/2012 10:42:35 PM EST]
nervous Sophomore Author Ventura Posts:221 Points:4,545 Joined:Oct 2010	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 10:04:35 PM Ignore nervous Report Abuse Can't get good news anymore. $15,000,000 contribution in So-Cal., Maybe not for one person!
Rehorsehay All-Star Author California Posts:871 Points:45,925 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 6:20:33 PM Ignore Rehorsehay Report Abuse CRAPAPOODLE!
Donatelo Champion Author Dayton Posts:1,118 Points:291,825 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 11:17:25 AM Ignore Donatelo Report Abuse ok
albert2008 Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:7,337 Points:1,478,085 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 8:53:59 AM Ignore albert2008 Report Abuse time will tell
1006 Champion Author Birmingham Posts:1,105 Points:1,352,665 Joined:Apr 2008	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 6:48:16 AM Ignore 1006 Report Abuse well i'll be, that is story
VikingWoman Champion Author Washington Posts:1,251 Points:249,715 Joined:May 2012	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 3:21:35 AM Ignore VikingWoman Report Abuse I wish I had read this last week. I could have filled with good quality fuel at $3.81/gallon for regular. Morning of 5/11 I checked the buddy and found the cheapest in Longview, WA was $3.87 at AR/Co. When I got there after work at 5 pm I fueled at $3.91/gallon for regular. I didn't see the fuel truck on site but the dude was changing the board to $3.97 as I was leaving. Why 10 cents in one day? I told a fellow customer who commented that Memorial Day is coming up that they will bend us over while they can.
LiquidGold2011 Sophomore Author California Posts:101 Points:202,840 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: May 12, 2012 12:46:05 AM Ignore LiquidGold2011 Report Abuse Be ready ... yeah, like what are we gonna do about it? Thanks for the heads up though. Gonna saddle-up, hitch up the old buckboard and move-on-out -- yippee-yi-yay! Glad to see that no politicians have started an inquiry as to why there is this amazing coincidence of refinery failures - lookin' at you Boxer and Feinstein!! If the refineries were assessed penalties for not keeping their plants in good running order, this would go a long way to preventing these convenient extortionary, oh, I mean maintenance events.
Vette1967 Champion Author Albany Posts:5,957 Points:1,274,050 Joined:Jun 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 10:57:52 PM Ignore Vette1967 Report Abuse Okay...
Ejfields Rookie Author Oregon Posts:12 Points:55,780 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 8:29:18 PM Ignore Ejfields Report Abuse YAY! Just what I wanted to hear! I'm so happy to spend all my money on my gas to get my kids to school every day vs. feeding them!
DandyDapple All-Star Author North Dakota Posts:715 Points:309,320 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 8:15:33 PM Ignore DandyDapple Report Abuse OMG 2012 ...
DanMtz Champion Author Oakland Posts:3,340 Points:1,240,400 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 7:55:11 PM Ignore DanMtz Report Abuse No refiner is making $100 million per day. None, zero, zilch, nada. An integrated oil company may make that much, due primarily to oil PRODUCTION, not refining. Refinery operations are not that profitable. That is why they are, by and large, shutting down everywhere.
txrojo2005 All-Star Author Austin Posts:762 Points:477,100 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 7:04:03 PM Ignore txrojo2005 Report Abuse I agree with most of the comments below.
txrojo2005 All-Star Author Austin Posts:762 Points:477,100 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 7:03:40 PM Ignore txrojo2005 Report Abuse I agree with most of the comments below.
txrojo2005 All-Star Author Austin Posts:762 Points:477,100 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 7:03:35 PM Ignore txrojo2005 Report Abuse I agree with most of the comments below.
Billbop Champion Author St. Louis Posts:2,782 Points:1,449,190 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 5:38:25 PM Ignore Billbop Report Abuse What a joke to blame it on a gasoline blend. Refineries are pass through operations, they only shut down for maintenance, never to change blends. What they do is a make a base stock, for all blends, and then as part of the end game, they blend the different additives, during the end of the process, they don't shut down anything, they only change what they are putting in the finished blend tanks. By the by, the "blends" only add .10-.20 a gallon at most. It's just another "reason" the monopolies we call Big Oil uses to jack the prices up and blame someone else and OH YEAH, keep their profits at record levels. Literally the number one refiner is making $100,000,000 a DAY in profits and it's not by accident.
ozzie1211 Rookie Author Los Angeles Posts:16 Points:17,600 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 5:16:18 PM Ignore ozzie1211 Report Abuse States should use few mixes in the the winter and summer. Also California has the highest taxes in the USA.
gravityhurts Champion Author North Carolina Posts:4,083 Points:935,555 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 4:39:29 PM Ignore gravityhurts Report Abuse Who cares about the left coast...they can have it!
gknee09 All-Star Author Philadelphia Posts:980 Points:821,040 Joined:Jul 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 4:24:58 PM Ignore gknee09 Report Abuse the are dropping here but not fast enough
snappytom2 Champion Author Corpus Christi Posts:3,537 Points:274,115 Joined:Jul 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 4:10:28 PM Ignore snappytom2 Report Abuse Could not care less.
bell05 Champion Author Atlanta Posts:9,245 Points:1,874,660 Joined:Jun 2005	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 3:57:34 PM Ignore bell05 Report Abuse Talk about it caddilac.
savannahoaks Champion Author Rockford Posts:2,687 Points:633,285 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 3:54:16 PM Ignore savannahoaks Report Abuse So they are warned. Now what?
caddilac Champion Author Ontario Posts:16,588 Points:2,137,530 Joined:Apr 2007	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 3:17:09 PM Ignore caddilac Report Abuse I have three issues with this so-called 'News Item'. 1st. It is a REPEAT from yesterday. 2nd. It isn't a 'news Item', it is a GasBuddy Blog. 3rd. Since it is a GasGuddy Blog why can't they just put the whole damn thing here instead of having us click on the link. I can understand there are 'copyright issues' with a 'news item', so one can only copy and paste a snippet of that 'news item'. But this isn't from a news source, it is a partial copy of a GasBuddy BLOG, and even has a "Reply To This Article" button with the reply being posted on that blog and here anyways. [Edited by: caddilac at 5/11/2012 3:19:09 PM EST]
RAC110 Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:5,949 Points:1,851,545 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:59:21 PM Ignore RAC110 Report Abuse as we all have seen many times the oil prices go up fast and the oil prices go down very very slow
serrog Champion Author Nova Scotia Posts:5,554 Points:1,510,180 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:58:22 PM Ignore serrog Report Abuse OK
SavinOnFuel Champion Author Gary Posts:1,966 Points:1,255,410 Joined:Nov 2007	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:58:20 PM Ignore SavinOnFuel Report Abuse Boo hoo...Join the club
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monarch57 Champion Author British Columbia Posts:1,623 Points:135,360 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:47:35 PM Ignore monarch57 Report Abuse It's called GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED and SELFISHNESSSSSSSSSSSSS. The government must step in and put a stop to all this GREED.
thirstyauto Champion Author Milwaukee Posts:14,691 Points:1,616,720 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:47:27 PM Ignore thirstyauto Report Abuse Not good news any day!
miiike572 All-Star Author Phoenix Posts:797 Points:523,295 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:45:48 PM Ignore miiike572 Report Abuse oh boy
bonbon5 Champion Author Toledo Posts:1,975 Points:526,500 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:41:12 PM Ignore bonbon5 Report Abuse this was yesterday's news...
GatorGuy Champion Author Columbia Posts:2,220 Points:1,205,235 Joined:Jan 2009	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:38:16 PM Ignore GatorGuy Report Abuse We're all getting clobbered.
REVLAW Champion Author San Antonio Posts:10,425 Points:2,004,545 Joined:Jul 2007	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:36:52 PM Ignore REVLAW Report Abuse But don't they "deserve" to get clobbered, considering their unbalanced liberal approach to human life and the environment in general?
Spirits All-Star Author Florida Posts:911 Points:372,800 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:35:55 PM Ignore Spirits Report Abuse They need to get more than clobbered, they need to be eliminated. Most of the trouble in this country starts there.
SpankyMI Champion Author Kalamazoo Posts:2,698 Points:757,480 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: May 11, 2012 2:35:35 PM Ignore SpankyMI Report Abuse You get what you vote for.