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Gary W. Meyer
Gas pump prices in Big Lake have been a very nice holiday gift over the past several weeks, stopping at $1.79.9 a gallon as 2015 went over the horizon and the new year came forward.
So, how does this $1.79.9 per gallon for unleaded fuel compare with recent year-end figures? It’s actually pretty good, given the numbers provided the Tribune this week by local gas historians Carl and Dave Aubol, who have daily recorded local gas prices and compared them with cost per barrel for crude oil.
Crude oil prices are depressed, which is making the gas station result a happy number.
Last Dec. 31, gas was at $205.9; the prior Dec 31, it was at $329.9, tied closely to the crude barrel price of $99.29.
On Dec. 31, 2012, it was at $295.9; Dec. 31, 2011, $313.9; Dec. 31, 2010, $295.9; Dec. 31, 2009, $265.9.
The prior Dec. 31, it has fallen all the way down to $153.9 a gallon. But that was just a one-year break from high prices. Dec. 31, 2007, gas was at $299.9, the result of $96 per barrel oil prices.
From Dec. 31, 2001 through corresponding dates in 2006, it was at $106.9, $152.9, $154.9, $167.9 and $225.9.
At the beginning of their price recording in 2001, when gas was at $106.9, the price per barrel for oil stood at $19.18.
Heavenly days, they were. Did we realize it?
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