Oil prices drop, but gas prices are up.

a red gas nozzle San Diego's gas prices are rising while oil prices drop. A few weeks ago we said gas prices were doing the "low price limbo." Today, they're doing the "contango" with the emphasis on "con." Full story.

Gas Prices: The party is over.

UCAN's cheap gas locator shows that local gas prices have dropped to the lowest price of 2008 on Friday, and will start
climbing tomorrow. Full Story.

Here's the inside scoop on low gas prices

As consumers have involuntarily taken a wild ride on the roller coaster of gasoline prices this past year, they are dazed and wondering why the sudden freefall in prices at the pump. UCAN Gasoline Analyst Charles Langley provides some answers. READ ON.

UCAN's gasoline analyst tells the inside story behind the historic highs and lows of gas prices

UCAN's gasoline project manager, Charles Langley, is interviewed by KPBS Radio about the forces driving the volatility in gasoline prices during the past year, and where they're likely to go now, as California and the nation grapple with a deep recession. LISTEN NOW

Local gas prices plunge to the lowest level since 2004

At $1.89 a gallon, gas prices have dropped to the lowest level in more than four years, according to UCAN's gas project. More.

With gas prices at their lowest in years, "Black Friday" could be "Bleak Friday" for the oil companies ...

In San Diego today our Gas Project shows that the the average price for gasoline is $2.02 a gallon. Prices are plummeting, yet refineries are selling their gas for less than the cost of oil and losing money on every gallon.  Is it because of "LIFO" accounting, as in Last In, First Out, or is is it LIFO as in "Lower In Fear of Obama," with the hope his administration doesn't take steps to break our addiction to foreign oil?  Analysis.



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