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so who's right... geko or chattanooga? inquiring minds want to know.
Unless an actual domestic shortage happens I doubt any of our companies will sell much cheaper here than they could abroad where the supply is actually short. So it will be around where it had been until this is resolved
We travel a lot and ticket prices are way up. Spirit shutting down made things worse for consumers. Paying more for dumb reasons is really getting to a boiling point.
Where are you obtaining your information? Below numbers are EIA.
Article in Forbes last weekend, I believe. But I went back and the exact verbiage was "lowest levels in May since 2014", which i just re-confirmed from the EIA data. So not in fact any time during the year, but lowest it's been before the start of the summer travel season (which is generally considered to be Memorial Day).
Originally Posted by bitkahuna
great posts on fuel supplies.
so who's right... geko or chattanooga? inquiring minds want to know.
We're saying subtly different things, but he was absolutely right to call me out, because I mixed up and therefore mis-stated my claim.
This hit us last weekend. A route we're flying in September had flights cancelled and ours moved (same flight number, vastly different time).
Silver lining though: because our departure time changed by more than 90 minutes, we were able to change to any other available flight for free, so we actually wound up on an itinerary that we like better. Prior to the reschedule, if we had done that we would have paid the current price, which is almost triple (171% higher, to be exact) what we did pay back in February.
We travel a lot and ticket prices are way up. Spirit shutting down made things worse for consumers. Paying more for dumb reasons is really getting to a boiling point.
Yep, I have a friend who's mother died while he was in CA, he could not get home until the end of his planned vacation. It was impossible to find ANY flight from CA with seats available where he, his wife and their young children could travel in some way that one of them each could sit next to a child.
If you are Mobile, Shell and etc, what incentive do you have to pump more or spend more on exploration? You sneeze and money appears on your table. At this point, its the companies controlling the prices. At least that's how I feel.
Yep, I have a friend who's mother died while he was in CA, he could not get home until the end of his planned vacation. It was impossible to find ANY flight from CA with seats available where he, his wife and their young children could travel in some way that one of them each could sit next to a child.
how old are the children? when i was a teenager and went to italy for the first time with my mom and sisters, the tiny fiat my uncle had couldn't take all of us to his house so he said i could go on a train to a station nearby (about 90 minute train ride). sure... don't speak the language, had never been abroad, had no idea where i was going. but sure. it was character building.
Originally Posted by situman
If you are Mobile, Shell and etc, what incentive do you have to pump more or spend more on exploration? You sneeze and money appears on your table. At this point, its the companies controlling the prices. At least that's how I feel.
not sure that's how it works with commodity traders.
Last edited by bitkahuna; Jun 5, 2026 at 04:10 PM.