A Sign Of Things To Come? Gas Prices Top $5 Per Gallon On Long Island

Gulf Station In Great Neck Gets Bold, While BP Down The Road Is $1 Less

February 28, 2012 7:49 PM

Gas Prices at the Gulf station – Great Neck, NY – Feb 28, 2012 (credit: Sophia Hall / WCBS 880)

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GREAT NECK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — It’s shocking — reports that gas will reach $5 per gallon by the summer.

Believe it or not, a station on Long Island is already charging that much. CBS 2’s Don Dahler went there Tuesday to find out why.

The sign at the Gulf station on Northern Boulevard in Great Neck really does say a gallon of regular will cost you $4.99.9. Unless you have a spare one-tenth of a penny lying around, for all intents and purposes, that’s a $5 gallon of gasoline — $5.09 if you use a credit card.

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The reaction? Well, you can probably guess.

“Wow! That’s crazy you know!” said Jose Godinez of Queens.

“[That’s] very expensive gas,” added Helene Flint of Jericho.

“$4.99, I think they’re crazy!” added Great Neck’s Michael Capuozzo.

Dahler went inside to try to get some explanation for the price, but the manager wasn’t in and the attendant could only say he was told to up the price on Monday.

Of course, gas station owners can charge whatever they want for their gasoline. It is a free market. But not even a block away, across the street, is a BP station where they’re selling gasoline for $3.95 a gallon. So the better question is why would anybody pay $5 a gallon?

Dahler asked the only gas customer he saw at the Gulf on Tuesday, Andre Jackson of Valley Stream.

Dahler: “I just wanted to know if you realize you’re paying a dollar more per gallon here than anywhere in the area?”

Jackson: “Yeah. Yes I do.”

Dahler: “Why would you choose this gas station when there’s one right up the street that has a dollar less a gallon?”

Jackson: “I didn’t know that. I’m not from the area, but I needed gas. Yeah, what can you do about it?”

Dahler: “Pay through the nose?”

Jackson: “Yeah, we’re paying through a lot more than that!”

Dahler did notice other customers stopping to buy things in the store, but no one else was filling up while he was there. Still, with gas prices everywhere on the rise, you have to wonder is this guy really crazy or is he simply ahead of his time?

And Dahler heard there’s another station in Oceanside selling gas for $5 a gallon, even though the national average is $3.72.

WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall On The Story

Also Tuesday, WCBS 880 reporter Sophia Hall met a man who has been using the iPhone app called Gas Buddy to find the best prices on regular gasoline.

Instead of grabbing his car keys, Frank Bridges told Hall he puts on his tennis shoes and walks, so he doesn’t have to use up the gas in his car.

He said the next car he buys will have better gas mileage.

What is the highest regular gas price you’ve seen? Please share it in the comments section below!

A Sign Of Things To Come? Gas Prices Top $5 Per Gallon On Long Island

http://thecryptojournalist.wordpress.com The Cryptojournalist

As the Iran war beat drums, the price will continue to climb….

http://rhymeandreasonable.com
Dave

This is just where Oblunder wants gas prices as he said in 2008 during his campaign.. he wants us all in electric cars… whiile he has all but stymied new domestic oil production..

all you genetically coded Democrats on Long Island.. smile.. you are getting your wish

I can’t wait to see what happens when he is re-elected… oh happy days!

RoccoP

It will be NINE DOLLARS A GALLON if that mooliak is re=elected! BANK IT!

SerfCityHereWeCome

As a former Wrong Islander who was lucky enough to escape, I HOPE you all remember your exact CHANGE for the bus.
SerfCityHereWeCome

…but…but…but..thay tawt me in publik skool that are Messaya wood give us gas four free by not drilling for eny. Itz Bushes fawlt
BigLouie15

We’re headed for a collapse that will make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park. Keep voting for dems and the 99% will be 99.999999%.
Jimbo

New York’s must like high gas prices because they keep voting DUMacRATs, they deserve what they get.

RoccoP

Ditto here in the GRANOLA STATE!

CWF

The price of gas is not going up.
The value of your dollar is going down.

dwstick

Bingo! That’s exactly what’s happening here! With all of Obama’s ‘stimulus’ programs for his union buds and loans to companies that promptly went bankrupt, he was throwing money around like it was confetti, forcing the Treasury to print more and more new money. Now we’re at the level where our GDP is equal to our National Debt.
If he gets re-elected, we’re finished as a solvent nation.
gh67229

$16 trillion debt – close to $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities coming due. This is a real debt each citizen owes and our creditors (Arabs, Chinese, etc) get their payments from higher prices. The ultimate guarantee that we’ll pay is our properties, businesses, savings, 401ks, and untimately our labor.
In the name of socialism – we are made slaves.

Sicklibs

As long as Liberals are in charge it will be O.K. to charge $50. a gallon.
san deigo man

if you don’t like these stupid gas price, call the idiot at the white house –OBAMA–a let him know thathe could have approved the Keystone Pipeline and it would have created 20,000 jobs and gas would have been $186 a gallon just like when he took offic ein January, 2009. No, he can’t see how stupid this moran really is. Wake up America.

AJ Wallace

I’m not an Obama fan at all, but you need to do some research on the Keystone Pipeline. The claim they made that it will create 20,000 jobs is drastically inflated and the pipeline will in fact raise gas prices, not lower them. Also, don’t forget this was to be an export pipeline..ie not for us.

gh67229

The point is that Barry Obama (elected by emotional idiots that still don’t know his past) has done everything possible to raise the price of fuel…WHY?
Control the movement of the population
Force a two income system – wealthy politicians, and the poor

Fritz Von

It’s OK, keep reading Newsday and voting Democrat, and it’ll all be OK.

mauren

I banned that socialist rag in the 70′s and never regretted it!

andrew musaelian

You can only blame the idiot in the white house for this newest scan. He will slowly destroy America since he is not an American. SOB.
DJ

Unforuneately raising gas prices are not going to be any help to the recovery.

http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
Brian

It doesn’t matter. The morons here on the island keep driving 70+ mph on the parkways with giant SUV’s, So let’s make it $7 a gallon/
debbie

Long Island you are gettting the hope and change you voted for … But we all have to pay the price for you liberal states

mike

We all pay a price because the idiots for fell for the hopey and changey slogan.

GUTZ22

What’s the mystery ? Yet another negative accomplishment for Herr Obozo . America must remove this cancer in November .
AMR1960

Long Island deserves it…They vote DemLib and now are reaping the consequences!
Soapy Johnson

The “Jed Clampett Time Travel” theory tells you all you need to know about why gas prices are out of control … http://placeitonluckydan.com/2011/04/gas-prices-rapin-everybody/
mKn

It’s on its way to $10.00 a gallon. Don’t you just love the hope and change form the degenerates that call themselves … government?

http://911essentials.com
Edward von Richthoven

If LonGilanders don’t boycott these gas prices, they are CRAZY! You New Yorkas are being raped. It’s time to take the bicycles out onto the Southern State Parkway!!!
SerfCityHereWeCome

LOL, I’d say REALLY bold. Gulf has always been considered the Brand X of the major companies. Thanks to the Mugabenomics of the Killer B’s of Bernanke & Barack, and their ability to make prices skyrocket in spite of collapsing demand, everyone who’s previously refused to pay attention up to this point is about to discover that YES WE CAN have a hyperinflationary depression.
Xenophon10

Great. Let Blue States share the misery.
marty griffin kdka

How’s that Obama hope and change thing working out for you.
lee

The FBI and DEA fabricate evidence, steal from suspects and use murder to close bad cases.

There is evidence that several corrupt DoJ, DoD and CIA employees had taken bribes from Al Quida in exchange for information and logistics support during the four years prior to 9/11.

When one considers that the 9/11 terrorists could take jumbo jet flying lessons, move about the US unobstructed, live for several weeks less than 2 miles from NSA head quarters and be on State Department watch lists, even without the supporting evidence of bribery this makes sense.
If FBI and DEA employees where less concerned with enriching themselves by stealing from suspects and taking bribes and more concerened with doing their jobs, 911 may never have happened.

DCLaw-1

Forgot the meds and the tin foil hat today?

PropagandaHitsRecordHigh

That’s the answer to anyone leaking something controversial. The only thing that’s hit a record high is the amount of made up stories in the news after the coup and cover up.

We have no democracy, no president, and freedom of press is an illusion since unelected officials took over Washington and the media.

The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

The biggest cover up in history starts here
http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com

You’re F’d

Hey dumbass @You’re A Fool .. if I was replying to PropagandaHitsRecordHigh it would be here. But since you’re a low grade moron, please keeping posting so we can all have a good laugh.

@PropagandaHitsRecordHigh interesting information

You’re F’d

When you’re arrested as a government fake blogger protecting criminals …. you won’t be so smug. Forgot your meds, orange jumpsuit and flip flops? See you on TV at your treason trial as you family is out front crying, ‘ he was just doing his job.” We’ll all be laughing … can’t wait.

Have a great day … future inmate.

You’re A Fool

You must be very ignorant or diverting attention. This person is exposing the cover up, not covering it up like you. Read more and lie less government poster.

You’re F’d

You’re an incompetent poster that can’t discern how posting works. The reply was to DCLaw you degenerate moron. You shouldn’t even be allowed on the net. Learn how to use the internet before you show everyone what a mental deficient you are … room temperature IQ at best.

Waiting for your apology as all can see how fricking stupid you are.

voss delong

The first sentence is spot on. The rest is B S government distraction. 110 story buildings do not collapse into their own footprint in less than 10 seconds leaving only a few stories of debris with the rest of the building turning to dust. How about Building 7?

MyMove

I’m so glad that I turned away from a fancy car last year and went for the 30 mpg car. Whew. Dodged a bullet. I’m moving to a new city soon, specifically from Boston to New York City. Although Boston is pretty up there on the most expensive cities for gas, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to afford New York City gas prices along with its ridiculous parking rates. Sigh. Are gas prices ever going to go back down?

waterman

THE ONLY GOOD REASONS TO PAY A PARKING GARAGE IS…IF YOU HAVE TO PICK SOMETHING UP AND HAVE NO WAY TO HAUL IT BACK TO YOUR PLACE….OR IF YOU ARE A FREE LANCER AND CAN BILL THE CLIENT FOR IT……

Or if you know you are coming home at 3-5am and dont want to deal with the nightlife on the subway….o

teetotaler

The Gulf station on Long Beach Road and Atlantic Ave, Oceanside L.I. always has the highest prices anywhere. As of yesterday it was 4.99 for regular. Their prices go up every day and by now it must be about 5.49.

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