gasoline prices

You think you've seen it all, but this weekend I went and visited my son, who lives in Chicago, and while we think the $5.19 per gallon prices are outrageous here, and they are, still it's worse less than a couple of hundred miles around the lake to the west.

I don't know why I take it so personally, other than, it is coming out of MY wallet. Monday's 45-cent gasoline price spike just struck me, not so much as shocking as it was brazen. It's like these SOBs are going to raise it another 45 cents...and all at once; not a dime here and a dime there?

I don't know why this is a shock, but gas prices spiking in Kalamazoo in the past week to well over $3 ($3.19 the first day of the spike) did just that to me.

Some other parts of Michigan are catching up with the big price hikes in retail gasoline that hit Battle Creek and Kalamazoo last week.

We woke up yesterday to another round of gasoline price increases around Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Many stations bumped prices up to $2.55 a gallon for regular unleaded.

Overnight - one Kalamazoo station dropped to $1.99 for regular

With a new energy policy the last three years that promotes domestic production, even full out military action by Iran against US bases in Iraq had no impact. And the prices we’re being charged continue to fall.

I guess the answer is, enjoy it while you can.

With gas prices this low across Michigan, you now have no reason to not take advantage of the last long weekend of summer 2016.

A few years ago, I had pretty much resigned myself to ridiculous gasoline prices - especially in the summer months. So, for everyone like me, can you believe this?