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**W2R** · 12-01-2008, 08:43 AM

Gas prices are bound to fluctuate - - but the recent drop in gas prices is hard to explain! Last summer I paid $4.29/gallon in New Orleans. Now, it is so much lower. Still, gas prices in Louisiana are maybe 20 cents higher than they were at most gas stations in Springfield, Missouri on November 23rd, shown here:

I am posting this for the purposes of future nostalgia..

Thanks to the low gas prices, we stayed an extra day.

I have nothing to contribute on how to hedge gas price increases, but just couldn't resist posting this photo.

12-01-2008, 08:43 AM	#4
W2R Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 10,410	Gas prices are bound to fluctuate - - but the recent drop in gas prices is hard to explain! Last summer I paid $4.29/gallon in New Orleans. Now, it is so much lower. Still, gas prices in Louisiana are maybe 20 cents higher than they were at most gas stations in Springfield, Missouri on November 23rd, shown here: I am posting this for the purposes of future nostalgia.. Thanks to the low gas prices, we stayed an extra day. I have nothing to contribute on how to hedge gas price increases, but just couldn't resist posting this photo. __________________ "Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harborless immensities." - - H. Melville, 1851 Last edited by W2R; 12-01-2008 at 08:50 AM.