AUGUSTA, Maine — Following a national trend, gas prices are on the rise in Maine.
Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail price for a gallon of gas in Maine has risen 2.5 cents in the past week, to $3.51.
The price in Maine is 17 cents above the national average of $3.34 per gallon.
Current prices are 32 cents higher than on the same day one year ago and more than 19 higher than a month ago.
A company analyst says he expects prices to change in little in the coming weeks.
so why are we paying 367 up north??????
Cost of Transport from facility to where you are is more expensive. That is one reason.
Sir, I hate to disagree, but I drive a log truck for a living. All I can say is that I wish that I could get hooked up with one of these oil companies to haul fuel from Portland to Fort Kent, and make the kind of money that they claim as “transportation costs.”
You are the right person to ask then. Say you haul logs from Fort Kent down to Bangor is that not a cheaper trip then hauling them all the way down to Portland? There has to be some cost increase but is it jacked up to such a degree that it is not really at all in line with what things cost?
Please, no drilling on our own soil for oil. Please no pipelines that could make it cheaper to transport oil products. Please no serious efforts or programs to convert operating our vehicles on natural gas, like they do in South America. Right now you can fill up your car where I am in Argentina with natural gas that cost 80 Argentine Cents per Kilo. Or 15 cents for 2.2 pounds of gas in US funds. You can do this in Bolivia too. Has anyone been to Bolivia lately? Its not a hotbed of technology and 21st Century Modernization.
Lets continue to be dependant on people like Hugo Chavez. Lets continue to be at the whim of conditions in the Middle East and very unstable places like Nigeria.
Yes I know we buy the majority of our oil from Canada. However the rest we need should be coming from us! And we should be finding real ways of decreasing gas and oil dependance that work and make sense. Please no more 40000 dollar electric cars that have to be subsidized heavily by the government. If countries in South America are able to figure it out I think we should be able to do it as well.
It’s Bush’s fault don’t ya know!
Yeah, it is, everyone knows it!
Gasoline is less than twenty cents per gallon! It cost less than what it was in 1960! That is if you use 1960 dimes. Spot silver price for today is $32.50 per ounce which means a 1960 dime is worth $3.25. In 1960 regular gas cost 25.9 cents per gallon. The difference between 25.9 cents and $3.51 is INFLATION! The more fiat dollars they print the less the fiat dollars in our pockets are worth – and Obama is adding another 1.2 TRILLION to the existing money supply. Get ready for $5.00 per gallon.
One other thing – The dimes in your pocket today are clad base metal slugs that would have gotten you a jail sentence if you tried to pass them in 1960.
WOW! My post disappeared!
Spot silver price today is $32.50 per ounce. A silver dime is worth $3.25. Gasoline costs less than twenty cents per gallon if you use 1960 silver dimes. I had a lot more on my original post but I guess the censers didn’t like people reading the truth.
Well, at least no one is B!+(!^ing about it.