I am utterly amazed. Not at the fluctuation in gas prices. That's to be expected when the price of a resource is determined by trading on commodities markets. What amazes me is that anyone has enough time to track their gasoline expenditures.
Paul On Jul 16, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:56 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >>> Just filled the tank the other day. Price seemed lower. >>> This thread made me curious, so I pulled the price per gallon out of >>> my Prius tracking database and plotted it from August 2006 to the >>> present: >>> >>> http://homepage.mac.com/godders/gasoline-price-monthly-2006-2011.jpg >>> >>> That shows the average monthly pump price I've paid per month since I >>> bought the Prius. The trend line definitely shows that it's rising, >>> but it swings up and down much more wildly than the trend line's >>> steady increase might suggest. >> >> I don't think I'm seeing swings quite that wild, although I don't really >> have the time to graph it right now, so I can't really say for sure. I've >> got a fairly good logs of my gasoline purchases since 1981. I started >> keeping them in a spread-sheet in 2005. >> >> Someone else posted that the Federal Government released oil from the >> Strategic Oil Reserve, and I think that might be what caused the dip I >> noticed. A little Google produces the following correlations: >> >> 1. They released 30 million barrels of oil. >> 2. The US uses about 2 million barrels per day. >> 3. The slight price decline lasted for around 15 days. >> >> > > At our nearest station, Wednesday it was $3.75. Friday (yesterday) it was > $3.85. Today it was $3.64. > Don't try to impute rationality/linearity to a chaotic system. > > stan > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
