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From: hammond@steinmetz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Is this happening where you live?
Message-ID: <636@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 09:24:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 09:24:07 1986
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> In article <409@ccice6.UUCP>, rdz@ccice6.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) claims:
> -->I'm sure we have all heard the reports about how OPEC is going down
> -->the tubes and soon crude oil prices will be falling through the floor.
> -->What I have observed here in Rochester (Western NYS) is that pump
> -->prices for gasoline are actually INCREASING at the rate of about 1
> -->cent every other week for the last month or so.  I can only assume
> -->we will be handed the line, by "The Industry", that this is because
> -->refineries are busy making home heating oil.  Has anyone noticed this
> -->happening in other parts of the country?  Are prices going down anywhere?
> 
> 
> In the Denver area (at least Southeast Denver), prices have fallen
> on average 6-7 cents in the last 2 weeks.  The lowest I have seen
> leaded regular is 92.9 cents, while Unleaded regular runs just a
> but over a dollar. (Today I paid $1.019 cash for a tank full at
> Amoco).  (That is for a gallon, not for a whole tank.)
> 
> The independents are maintaining a prices advantage of about
> 1-2 cents; not too much to be significant.
> 
> -- 
>        Ted Koppel : 1696 S. Mobile St. : Aurora, Colorado 80017 :
> 	{boulder, cires, cisden, denelcor, hao, nbires}!udenva!tkoppel
> 	{bilanc, csm9a, elsi, koala}!udenva!tkoppel

Gas prices here have fallen off too.  I know that it is still
expensive according to the rest of the contiguous 48 but the
prices are great for NY.  regular  1.03
                         unleaded  1.10
                   super unleaded  1.17


-- 
  Steve Hammond 
   arpa: hammond@ge-crd    uucp: ...rochester!steinmetz!hammond


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