It's not doing much of one thing or another. The past couple of weeks, the the trend has been down. It's a safe bet that prices will go up again in the spring.

Click on that and you can name towns in different states all across the nation and choose a radius of three miles, five miles or 10 miles around the town, and it will bring you back a list of stations along with map. Beside each station name are prices. You just have to make sure you watch the date and look for the most recent date. It will give you an idea of what many stations are doing.

That just gives you the average, the high and the low for that market - not individual stations. Again, I advise caution, because the average may be built on prices that are two or three days old.

We're very excited about it. It's certainly something different for us.

World oil prices jumped again this week as the price of crude oil traded above $63 per barrel. Seasonal maintenance being performed at gasoline refineries will temporarily limit gasoline production. The near future will probably continue to show lots of ups and downs, and traders react to news of almost any sort.

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