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High pump prices rattle drivers and businesses (Network coverage during Dubya - 15 TIMES greater)
Washington Post ^
| 2/28/11
| JONATHAN FAHEY and SANDY SHORE
Posted on 03/03/2011 10:58:51 PM PST by Libloather
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To: 21twelve
It’s comforting to think that the global demand for oil is something we can control.
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posted on
03/04/2011 4:23:42 AM PST
by
Huck
(Antifederalist Brutus was right!)
To: dr_lew
Well now I'm feeling much better, because my station only went up .08 DOLLARS ( N.B. ) from $3.61 to $3.69 yesterday. Sucks to be you.
Last weekend I noticed that gas prices in my area had spiked around $.10 overnight. Except for one gas station that still had the lower prices ($3.19 vs. $3.29). Both my cars were running on fumes and seeing the trend I took them both out to fill up, plus 2 10-gallon cans and filled them up with 48 gallons total.
Last night the prices at most gas stations around me are now in the mid $3.40s, and the "low price" gas station from last weekend is at $3.39. $.20 per gallon comes out to savings of almost $10 dollars for filling up when I did. AND I've only put about 20 miles total on the cars since then (which is unusually low). If I can keep my average consumption to 3 gallons a week (reasonable, given my habits), I can hold out until early May or so.
To: tanknetter
Actually, that was supposed to be 2 5-gallon cans above (for 10 gallons total)
To: Libloather
I have no doubt I hold a minority opinion on the matter of todays gas prices. I dont believe theyre all that high when adjusted for inflation. When I first started driving nearly 50 years ago I paid something like 50 cents a gallon. I was earning seventy five cents and hour. I worked 2/3 of an hour for 1 gallon of gas.
I think todays anger is triggered by the swings in price. Gas goes up 5 - 15 cents overnight. Ouch! Thats terrible. Later it drops by a buck and people relax. Prices are back to where they should be. When it again rises we freak again.
I hear a lot of complaining about gas prices from people who dont mind paying $5 a gallon for bottled water.
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posted on
03/04/2011 4:47:39 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: Libloather
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posted on
03/04/2011 9:48:34 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: Huck
We COULD control more of the supply. But not opening up more of Alaska, and SHUTTING DOWN the Gulf IS on this administration and the liberals (like Patty Murray) before them.
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posted on
03/04/2011 12:06:46 PM PST
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21twelve
( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
To: 21twelve
It seems to me global demand is pushing prices. That, plus speculation. And OPEC.
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posted on
03/04/2011 3:08:37 PM PST
by
Huck
(Antifederalist Brutus was right!)
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