I hope that fewer people travel during the summer this year. It’s the only chance of getting prices to fall.
Gas prices are the lead story on @ABCWorldNews and the other nightly network broadcasts
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It’s about time!
Yeah right, what economic recovery?
We’re making progress. I couldn’t find one reference to Bush in the article!
People ARE cutting back. Because the Kenyan has managed events that are raising gas to $7 a gallon, just as he said on the campaign trail back in 2008.
My son brought our old car, a small one to the station last night. $50 didn’t fill it. He doesn’t know how he’ll get to work this week.
Let’s see this slide off the “teflon” president. I saw a graph a couple of years ago, where Bush’s approval ratings exactly mirrored gas prices. I’ll be very surprised if obama gets by with this.
$4.30 in Hollywood. Time to get the bike out..
That's not what I see when I read the article. It's down from last year, and that's a different deal. Yes, there will be a seasonal variation in the weeks to come, but year-to-year numbers tell a different story.
The reason is as elementary Econ as you can get: Cost up, sales down (all other things being equal).
Look for worse than summer of 2008, that was like the inside of a tomb.
Gas prices are creeping up, gas prices are inching up, gas slightly rising, etc.
Whereas under Bush, the phrases were:
SOARING PRICES AT THE PUMP!, GAS PRICES SKYROCKET, FOOD OR GAS?,etc.
You get the picture.
Who’d a thunk it?
I bet we will see in rural America the Red Neck Road trains, owners of several cars or trucks using a tow strap between each other.
The lead vehicle does all the pulling while the rest just use brakes, stereo or cell phone charging.
And then when they approach the city they just disconnect and go there merry little way to work.
So the next time you see 10 vehicles all towing each other think of American ingenuity.
The big factor is the declining value of the dollar.
Gas prices won’t come down as long as the value of the dollar is plunging.
The dollar can’t recover as long as Obama and Bernanke keep putting more and more dollars into circulation.
The skyrocketing gasoline prices are what we will soon see happen to food and other consumer goods. In fact, it has already begun.
Right about now is a good time to mention the idea of adding a little pure acetone to gasoline. The theory is no more than 3 oz (shot glasses) to 10 gallons of gas will improve mileage. More than that doesn’t work.
While it clearly won’t hurt most fuel systems or engines, both Myth Busters and Snopes claim it doesn’t do anything. But a lot of people claim anecdotally that it does, and pretty impressively, from 20-30% better mileage for typical city driving.
I’ve tried it in both a large, 4D sedan and a 4D economy car, and noticed enough improvement to make it worth my while when gas is over $3/gal. Below that price I discontinue it, in case there are any long term effects, but I haven’t seen any.
While some people get passionate on both sides of the argument, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt as long as it shows results.
I haven’t been particularly impressed by the tests “debunking” it, either, as they do not replicate fuel consumption during city driving very well. That is, it might work best when idling, or accelerating, or decelerating, uphill or down. But if it works during *any* of these periods, it still can provide substantial savings.
$3.79, up from $3.55 overnight. SO what would cause it to go up that much in one f’n day??? This is in San Antonio. What will start happening is the families already strapped living paycheck to paycheck will start using credit cards for gas, effectively paying $6-8 a gallon by the time they get them paid off, if they even do that. Then what happens when the cards get maxed out? Food is steadily following along. Unlike the Federal Leviathan, we all have credit limits. The time is ripe in this country.
People that have fixed mileage to and from work are getting hurt