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Gas Prices in Indy have shot up to 4.25, gas up if you see it cheaper. Looks like some expensive trips for those touring Illinois and Pennsylvania this week.

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That's shot up since I was over a few weeks ago, sure it was around $3.78

Price of petrol (Gas) has remained static over here for over a month. However, it's around $8.00 a gallon over here in England!

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I was buying Super at the BP on 71st Street for around 4 bucks and up, and that was even before Memorial Day Weekend . . . . the cheapest I saw on my road trip was 3.50 in Arkansas. This weekend I filled up at Sam's for 3.30. . .

I work in Seymour Indiana been buying it there for 3.46 the last couple weeks. It usually will go up a day and be right back at 3.46 the next day

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Yeh, it HAD been $3.47 for a couple weeks, then Sunday night it went to $3.999, now it's DOWN to $3.879, and diesel is about the same, I can pull cheaper with my 7.3, than I ever could with a gas motor, and a lot less strain on it. Bob

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Leave for Jacksonville with just enough gas to get there. Fill up there. Per Gas Buddy.com they have some of the least expensive gas around, especially between Indy and there. It will also support their local economy for the area of Jacksonville Speedway. It will show our appreciateion for them putting on a Thursday night show.
W.B.

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Originally Posted by racefan20:
Gas Prices in Indy have shot up to 4.25, gas up if you see it cheaper. Looks like some expensive trips for those touring Illinois and Pennsylvania this week.

Those opting to do the Easter Storm actually may have it better than we do. Much of Pennsylvania including Mechanicsburg are $3.25-$3.35. I guess Speedway .aka. GREEDway does not have the Vulcan death grip on the Keystone state like they do in our area. I sure hope we get some relief by Sprint Week. $4.25 is nothing but outragious.

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Yesterday gas prices in Jacksonville were $3.87 for regular unleaded. Diesel was $3.95. Haven't checked today. Here's the gas heat map from a few mins ago for those of you heading our direction. I'll check Jacksonville prices in a little bit and repost.

http://jacksonvillespeedway.com/images/gas.jpg

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I've been paying over $4.60 a gallon for years!

I cut corners anywhere I can to ensure I can afford to buy gas for my racing adventures.

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Yikes... here in southeast PA it's about $3.40-$3.50. Been around those prices for months now. (knock on wood) Went to West Virginia a few weekends ago and I saw some places for $3.27.

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kd, where did you get that image? Very informative in a way that even I can understand.

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Originally Posted by Danny Burton:
kd, where did you get that image? Very informative in a way that even I can understand.

http://gasbuddy.com/GB_Map_Gas_Prices.aspx?e2=2

Glad to see my gateway to America and their cheap gas is "red hot" Michigan...

$3.82 on way into work...$4.25 at lunch break...Glad I've only got a 5 mile trip to races tonight...🏁

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This morning in Greenville, SC I paid 3.06. Before you get too jealous remember you have midgets and sprintcars and all we have is napcar. Oh there is a dirt track nearby that features 11, that's right ELEVEN, classes of stockcars each Saturday night (and Sunday morning:42::).

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Supposedly the price increase is due to refineries being down for maintenance, thus decreasing refining capacity. The usual excuse for the summer price increase is the switchover to a summer blend, so keep that in mind for next month.

It should be obvious that race tracks in Indiana are in conspiracy with oil companies, gas stations, and mother nature to rip off fans and owners. The oil companies and station owners have raised prices just in time for the heart of the racing season. The track owners have conspired with Mother Nature to create a series of rainouts. Most importantly the rain often arrives after fans and owners have either arrived at the track or are on their way. A secretive plan to get more vehicles on the road to buy high priced gas. Have these folks no shame?

I am so disgusted I will not visit my local track (Kokomo) again until Sunday.

Well ok, in truth I have to leave town on business so I can't attend the show tonight.

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Originally Posted by Tumey's 55:
I am so disgusted I will not visit my local track (Kokomo) again until Sunday.

Well ok, in truth I have to leave town on business so I can't attend the show tonight.

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You'll be like the Maytag repairman if you go there on Sunday

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Originally Posted by ronmil:
Supposedly the price increase is due to refineries being down for maintenance, thus decreasing refining capacity. The usual excuse for the summer price increase is the switchover to a summer blend, so keep that in mind for next month.

Ron, they have more excuses than you know who, they also have a person, whom they relieved of their dutys, but kept them on the payroll, their only duty now, is whenever there is a crisis, is to walk to the bowl in the cooler, and pull out an excuse for the day! Sound familiar? Bob:10:

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This is an article in my local paper:
Despite rising price of gas in Michigan buying in Detroit still a deal

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Despite Free Racing Thanks to HARF at Paragon saturday night. Still might not be able to go thanks to Gas Being $3.80 to $4.25 almost everywere around the state. What a bummer!! Probably going to have to save the money for Indiana Sprint Week and Smackdown. Tough on everybody! Need more Car Pooling!! Have fun at the races everyone who can afford it because this Big Cat may not make it to the track anytime soon!! BUMMED BIG TIME!!!:34::15:

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Originally Posted by apexonephoto:
I've been paying over $4.60 a gallon for years!

I cut corners anywhere I can to ensure I can afford to buy gas for my racing adventures.

Yeah, but you are a furiner. . .

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What I don't get is... Every time there is a "disruption" that causes production to go down (many times it's the companies own fault), EVERY cent of that is passed on to the customer. How about the company eating some of that cost one time? Especially given their profit margins in the last 10 years... I think you have a little in the bank....

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42 cent increase TODAY to 4.19 in West Central, IL

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Gas was as low as $3.15.9 @ Sevierville, TN on Monday morning. Monday evening we saw $3.99.9 in Indy, and then $4.09.9 in Bloomington, IL by Tuesday morning! I managed to fill up at a Slick and Greasy at $3.62.9 early Tuesday before they matched all of the other stations -- 47 cents per gallon less than a Freedom station a block away :47:
I really need to quit:31: but I am going to a couple POWRi midget races this weekend.

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Originally Posted by cmakin:
Yeah, but you are a furiner. . .

Some might say the same about you. :D;)

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Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
You'll be like the Maytag repairman if you go there on Sunday

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What's your point? ;)

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Originally Posted by Danny Burton:
What's your point? ;)

He'd be awfully lonely this Sunday :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by JakeCroxton:
42 cent increase TODAY to 4.19 in West Central, IL

Your kind of lucky in hartford city ind. yesterday 3.88-today 4.25. a .37 increase so far. Yours it still cheaper.

Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
You'll be like the Maytag repairman if you go there on Sunday

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Ok next sunday, the sarcasm was so thick I couldn't see the schedule.

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http://www.gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx?cntry=USA

Reading the info on this website about made me bang my head against a wall. There is absolutely no legitimate reason that Indiana should have the fourth highest average gas price amongst all 50 states. In fact, it must be some sort of Midwest or political bias against us here because Illinois and Michigan are two of the states with higher averages than Indiana with Hawaii being No. 1. We're even more expensive then California. Reading the message boards and articles passed along on the site about how the stockpiles increase, but the prices continue to rise as we ship fuel to other countries makes me ill. What I love is the fact that the mileage I get paid at work (25 cents per mile) is only five more cents than when I started over a decade ago. *sarcasm alert* I'm pretty sure gas prices were only a few cents cheaper back in 2001 compared to now, lol.

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Gas averaged $1.85 a gallon in November of 2008!!!:16

Originally Posted by racer-x:
Gas averaged $1.85 a gallon in November of 2008!!!:16

But gas averaged 4.08 a gallon in June of 2008.

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Originally Posted by ByronMack:
But gas averaged 4.08 a gallon in June of 2008.

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When the economy started tanking at the end of President Bush's term, the demand for gas dropped and the price dropped. Over the last 5 years, as the economy has improved, the demand for gas has increased, driving the price back up.

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Originally Posted by ByronMack:
Over the last 5 years, as the economy has improved

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That's what "they" keep telling us, but I (and most folks I know) haven't seen much "improving".

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Today in Grand Rapids Michigan gas is 4.29

Something to think about is the world market for gas. China and India are using more and more oil every year. So if we in the USA did not use any at all, the world as a whole is still using a lot of oil. But I do hate the old story of something happened at a oil plant over night and gas has to go up 25 cents as soon as it happens.

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This from today's Indy Star:

"The Indianapolis area generally is not required to use the summer blend, she said, because its pollution readings meet certain federal guidelines. But the area’s market is still affected because of its proximity to areas that fail to meet those guidelines such as Lake County in Northwest Indiana and the Cincinnati area. When refineries incur costs making the switch, petroleum companies pass costs to consumers.

A third factor, Purdue University economist Wally Tyner said, is “a perfect storm of refinery outages.” He said he has never seen such a large price gap between the U.S. and Indiana averages: nearly 50 cents.

He said a fire at an oil refinery in Detroit and an ongoing upgrade of BP’s Whiting refinery in northwestern Indiana are fueling much of the increase. Tyner said a refinery in Joliet, Ill., also is undergoing maintenance, further shrinking regional gas supplies."

That is what p*sses me off in regard to prices. Why do I have to pay for that? It's your business, the cost of doing business, you pay for it. Think about it, a McDonalds has a fire and then charges $20 for a Big Mac to make up for it. Same thing....

The supplies things doesn't fly with me either. That's a line of BS too.

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Cincinnati price was 3.49 when we left for Knoxville, Iowa at noon on Friday. Sunday morning when I got back it was 3.89...dropped to 3.81 on Tuesday and yesterday it jumped to 3.99......what a racket!!

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Make the speculators and the clowns on Wall Street take possesion of the oil they buy. J.M.O.

Jerry

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Originally Posted by Jerry Spencer:
Make the speculators and the clowns on Wall Street take possesion of the oil they buy. J.M.O.

Jerry

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Best idea I heard in a long time. I can only add that speculators should buy mostly on their own dime, not a very small percentage of their own dime.

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Up to $4.29 in SW Michigan now. That's up about $.50 since last week, or so.

I don't use it, but I see the price of diesel is lower that gas now. Has diesel fluctuated at all or has it remained steady?

Gouging. This is going to put a hurt in all of our travels this year (stating the obvious). I am already thinking of cutting back - when and where are the next decisions.