Posted on 11/08/2007 9:50:15 AM PST by yorkie
Some Northern California motorists are paying more than $4 a gallon for gas, Automobile Association of America reports. Tuesday a Shell gas station in Oakland sold premium gas at $4.05 a gallon.
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.......and I will be traveling there next month. I know I will be just sitting in traffic on the freeway (as I always do), but this time, I’ll be seeing dollar signs, just clicking, clicking, clicking....
California is always first to mandate things for cars and fuel that might reduce smog, etc., but also cause things to cost more. They should notice higher prices first and bigger.
Hey, Californians!
STOP ELECTING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!
/soapbox rant
I’m sure Hillary has a plan to fix that.
2.88 in Missouri.
They wanted it, they got it.
We may not like the price, but we can still buy all we want. That is the big difference between now and when we had lines at gas stations in the early 70’s when government controlled the price for the benefit of all.
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They wanted it, they got it.
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The first place to lay the blame is at the feet (or at the desks) of the citizens and bureaucrats who mandated so many different blends of gasoline and who forbid cross-selling to mitigate price differences.
Man, we should start a war for oil or something.
You got that right, Buck’eat.
Hey, the libs in California should be happy. They hate cars, they hate pollution, they would like the gas price to be $10/gal. They may just get their wish.
[http://auto.howstuffworks.com/gas-price3.htm]
London, UK: $6.65
Paris, France: $6.62
Copenhagen, Denmark: $6.51
Oslo, Norway: $6.48
Berlin, Germany: $6.42
Least expensive per gallon:
Caracas, Venezuela: $0.17
Tehran, Iran: $0.33
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: $0.45
Kuwait City: $0.79
Cairo, Egypt: $0.86
*Prices as of May 2007
Source: Daily American
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Well, they should never have voted in such high gas taxes; they are simply doing the penance (ie liberal guilt) that they (we) VOTED onto themselves. May they penance in peace.
Gee, does that mean that, if you produce your own, you can control the price? ANWAR!!!!! Let’s get some refineries and nuclear power plants going, then. (Novel idea, huh?)
“The cost of gas may do a lot of things but one of them is not to change our driving habits and life style.”
Some of those are the same people with $10k - $50k in credit card debt and an interest only mortgage. So, they charge their next $150 fill up. You can only play that game so long.
In the very near future the price of gas will change some habits.
FUEL PRICES ACROSS ALASKA, JUNE 2007 UPDATE
http://commerce.state.ak.us/dca/pub/FuelSurveyJune07Web.pdf
DIVISION OF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS SECTION AUGUST 2007
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Sarah Palin, Governor Emil Notti, Commissioner, DCCED Michael Black, Deputy Commissioner, DCCED Tara Jollie, Director, DCCED, DCA
Right. And who buys premium??
This article is poorly written. It mentions $4/gallon gas at one station in Oakland, for primium, and compares it to regular prices at other cities around the state, without saying what the one station in Oakland charges for regular.
It's just an excuse to make a splash headline with the $4 price tag, even though no one buys premium.
If they don’t like the price, they could start drilling in the now verboten areas.
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