May 2006 Energy Prices
May 1Barrel Crude $73.70 Gal Reg Gas Running $3.03-$3.09 Premium as high as $3.29. Prices stopped going up end of last week. Pres Bush diverting supplies from Strategic Petroleum Reserve to market to help make more gas available until end of summer.
May 2Barrel Crude $74.61 Gal Reg Gas
May 3Barrel Crude $72.28Gal Reg Gas: morning: $3.09, 3.19, 3.29: Evening: 3.12, 3.22, 3.32.Nat GasHeat Oil
May 4Barrel Crude $69.94 Gal Gas range this morning was: $3.13, 3.23, 3.33.

2 cents more for regular and it will be as high as it was the week after Katrina, Sept first week 2005: that was 3.15. Prices started going down in price the week after that height. It probably isn't going down at all this time for several weeks at least, not before Memorial day, I'll bet. :(
May 5Barrel Crude $70.19Gal Reg GasNat GasHeat Oil
May 6-7Barrel Crude None cause Sat-Sun.Gal Reg Gas up to $3.15-3.16, 3.25-3.26,3.35-3.36 at closest stations. Other prices are anywhere from 5-10 cents cheaper
May 8Barrel Crude $69.77

Washington Post has article specifically naming peak oil as the real energy problem and that the White House and the government know very well that this is happening and need to tell the country the truth. Also, on April 30, Meet the Press had energy secretary and several oil company, and some congressmen on to discuss the problem--they called it "the crisis" of rising gasoline problems. Oil people had some intelligent things to say. I don't know how many people really believed them though!

Newsweek's May 15 edition is going to cover the gasoline/gas/energy situation in the world. I think I've got those dates right, the online Newsweek has had a ongoing series about oil problems. Robert Hirsch's Feb 2005 report is mentioned everwhere it seems these days in this kind of reporting.

Gal Reg Gas
May 9Barrel Crude $70.69Gal Reg Gas holding at 3.15, 3.25, 3.35 Some lower prices around 3.03-3.05
May 10thBarrel Crude $72.15Gal Reg Gas $3.15-3.17, 3.25-3.27, 3.35-3.37

These are high end prices near me; sometimes I fill up there sometimes not. Other gas sources run lower but still start at just over or at $3.00-3.03 the past few days.
May 11Barrel Crude $73.32 How much next week, I wonder?Gal Reg GasNat GasHeat Oil
May 12 Barrel Crude $72.04 Gal Reg Gas Lower end prices have been moving up in the last couple of day from $3.04-3.08/3.09. This according to my own observations and the KTAR news this morning. We're not having drop off like we did in prices after they rose quickly after Katrina. Those high prices lasted about one and then went down 50-90 cents a gallon until this Jan-Feb.
May 16Barrel Crude $69.41Gal Reg Gas some prices gone down anywhere from 3-5 cents a gallon. Some holding steady at about 3.09-3.13 Nat GasHeat Oil
May 22Barrel Crude $69.96Gal Reg Gas Prices staying down around May 16 entry. Nat GasHeat Oil
May 25Barrel Crude $71.32Gal Reg Gas prices staying around May 16 or dropping a penny or twoNat GasHeat Oil
May 30Barrel Crude $72.03Gal Reg Gas prices dropped over Memorial Day weekend: 3.01, 3.11, 3.21
1Barrel Crude Gal Reg GasNat GasHeat Oil