YeeHa! Gas prices going down!

There's a gas war going on in Grand Rapids! That city had the lowest gas prices in all of Minnesota Friday morning, as low as $3.59 per gallon!!!
Meanwhile Duluth gas prices had fallen to as low as $3.79 per gallon for unleaded regular at several stations on Friday, down 20 cents in just five days!
Thats' still higher than the statewide average which sat at $3.76 on Friday, according to minnesotagasprices.com. That's down 17 cents over a week ago and down from amonth ago.

Posted by: jmyers@duluthnews.com on 7/25/2008 at 11:22 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Duluth gas ripoff continues

  The Duluth (and I-Falls) gas price ripoff continues.
  Duluth gas prices remained at $3.99.9 (unleaded regular) Monday while gas prices across the rest of the state are falling fast (some I-Falls stations were still at $4.09, the highest in the state!!!)
  Meanwhile, parts of central Minnesota are seeing gas for $3.67 per gallon Monday! That's an incredible 32 cents less for each gallon than Duluth!!!
  Minnesotagasprices.com says the statewide average is now down to $3.84, while stations as close to Duluth as Grand Rapids are as low as $3.83. Towns just as far from refineries as IFalls were seeing gas for 40 cents or more per gallon less than the Falls!!
  When will this ripoff end? How much longer will Duluthians have to pay more than all of our neighbors? A few pennnies might be acceptable, but 32 cents per gallon?! That's a ripoff. It's the same gas.


 

Posted by: jmyers@duluthnews.com on 7/21/2008 at 11:56 AM | Comments (3) | Permalink

The Detroit Lakes Discount; A quarter on every gallon

Head west over to Detroit Lakes Monday and you'd be paying 25 cents less per gallon of gas than here in Duluth.
Why? The little town is having a gas price war, that's why.
Somehow, the same gas station companies that are selling as in Duluth for $3.99 are selling it for $3.74 in Detroit Lakes.
Hmmm. Makes you wonder.
And why doesn't Duluth ever have a gas price war? Bemidji ($3.77 on Monday) has them. Hibbing. Grand Rapids. And all those towns generally have cheaper gas than much larger Duluth.
Cloquet-area drivers are paying just (just!) $3.81 per gallon on Monday. Almost worth the drive to fill up there. Almost.
Duluthians also are paying a 10 cent permium over the statewide average of $2.89.09 per gallon of unleaded regular gas, according to Minnesotagasprices.com. But we are 8 cents below the national average price per gallon.

Posted by: jmyers@duluthnews.com on 6/23/2008 at 4:17 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

Soggiest half-month ever?

   Probably not, but the first half of June 2008 was about as wet as it gets in the Northland.           
  There was at least a trace of rain EVERY DAY over the first 15 days of the month, including measurable rain 11 of 15 days. So far this month Duluth has seen 4.21 inches of rain, thats more than usual for the whole month and 2.2 inches above normal for halfway through the month.
   Duluth is now 1.32 inches above normal for precipitation for the year. All remnants of the 2006-2007 drought have now been wiped out.
   We look to have a week of nice weather, with highs near 80 by Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Duluth.
   Good grass growing weather.

Posted by: jmyers@duluthnews.com on 6/16/2008 at 2:05 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink

First gas over $4 in Minnesota!!

   
    Gas topped $4 per gallon for what appears to be the first time ever in Minnesota on Sunday when it hit $4.09.9 per gallon for regular unleaded at a station in Winthrop, a small farm town west of the Twin Cities, according to minnesotagasprices.com..
    Several northern Minnesota stations still hovered at $3.99.9 per gallon Sunday, although, in an odd twist, Bemidji had the cheapest gas in the state at $3.71 per gallon.
    Regular unleaded ranged from $3.83 to $3.89 in Duluth.  The website reported the statewide average at about $3.86 per gallon.

Posted by: jmyers@duluthnews.com on 6/08/2008 at 6:55 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink