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Gas Prices Hit Record High Averages in 2011 (Costs average family $4,155 more! Way to go Hussein!)
kcrg.com ^ | 12/21/11 | Addison Speck

Posted on 12/22/2011 1:28:56 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat

...this years average cost of fuel sets a new record. For 2011, the national average price for fuel is about $3.50 a gallon. That accounts for about 8.4% of the average American family’s income, the highest percentage in 30 years.

The average American household will have spent, a record, $4,155 filling up this year. Though it’s not what some Eastern Iowans wanted to hear, for many it wasn’t a surprise.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gas; gasoline; payroll; tax
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To: headsonpikes
And I thought ALLCAPS was rude!

Not always.
When the half of the population that votes for the First Impostor, and haven't a clue about how wealth is created, with an average IQ in the low 60s, the downward spiral is assured.

Got to get their attention somehow.

21 posted on 12/22/2011 2:05:07 PM PST by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s because you don’t work for the EPA. All coal fired anything and all coal mining is BAD!!! If you don’t get that we have a re-education camp set up just for you.


22 posted on 12/22/2011 2:05:50 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: qwerty1234
You headline must be wrong, there is no way the average family paid $4155 MORE...$4155 in total maybe, but not ‘more’.

I was thinking the same thing. The average driver drives about 12k mi/year, and the average price of gas is about $3.50/gal. If the average car gets about 30 mpg, then the average driver spends about (12000 mi/yr)($3.50/gal)(1/30 gal/mi) = $1400/yr. Figure 3 drivers per family, and the $4155 figure is about the total cost. However, the assertion above is in BOLD ALL CAPS, so it must be true.

23 posted on 12/22/2011 2:08:37 PM PST by thesharkboy (poet, know it.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

4000 vs 40.

And the GOP is clueless.

APPROVE THE PIPLELINE DEAL NOW


24 posted on 12/22/2011 2:08:39 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Why does the re-education camps smell like burnt chicken?

Merry Christmas


25 posted on 12/22/2011 2:08:45 PM PST by bray (The Tea Party Occupy's their Mind)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Bingo.


26 posted on 12/22/2011 2:11:45 PM PST by Obadiah (If U don't believe you can win, then there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.)
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To: bray
Now that's one area where you can bet they will be wiling to waive any CO2 or Global Warming restrictions
27 posted on 12/22/2011 2:12:09 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: ErnBatavia

He loves it when his Marxist ideals are going as planned.


28 posted on 12/22/2011 2:16:33 PM PST by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

29 posted on 12/22/2011 2:19:41 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: bray
"Not quite as high as he would necessarily like."

Plus tghe Obama plan for skyrocketing electricity costs. The GOP is horrible on messaging and Obama is winning winning the propaganda war with the aid of his lapdog media.

30 posted on 12/22/2011 2:21:30 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Have Obama’s policies been wrong for U.S. domestic oil production? Yes. No doubt.

Had they been different, over just the past two years, would U.S. domestic oil production levels have amassed increased output levels sufficient to have radically changed the retail price of gasoline - a world commodity???

Not by much, if at all.

The changes needed with regard to U.S. domestic oil production, even if enacted two years ago, are changes that at most will affect FUTURE and long term U.S. domestic oil output, and help SLOW domestic retail gasoline price increases - IN THE LONG TERM.

There are things to blame Obama for with regard to U.S. domestic oil production issues - recent prices of gasoline is not big on that list; there are bigger world economic and energy supply matters affecting today’s gasoline prices.


31 posted on 12/22/2011 2:24:16 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I’ve noticed regular gasoline selling for $2.93 in area’s around San Antonio. I figure it is a re-election ploy so the zipperhead could claim that he has lowered the price gasoline, then have it shoot up again after the November elections.


32 posted on 12/22/2011 2:24:55 PM PST by Sarajevo
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To: thesharkboy

So you are assuming people only drive on “average” 33 miles a day?. I cannot even begin to tell you how many people I know that 33 miles is ONE WAY to work for them.


33 posted on 12/22/2011 2:30:20 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: Michael Barnes

When I lived in Colorado it was more like 60 miles one way..


34 posted on 12/22/2011 2:35:27 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

I don’t doubt it for half a heartbeat. Add on “errands” you most likely had to do and spouse/significant other doing their thing. There is no way “average” is 12000 miles per year. That is dealeship lease stuff there.


35 posted on 12/22/2011 2:37:59 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Americans have to choose between eating lunch or having enough gas to get to work. The solution many have taken is to sleep in their cars at the company parking lot. Obama’s economy is all about Americans having the ingenuity to survive it.


36 posted on 12/22/2011 2:39:16 PM PST by pallis
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To: Michael Barnes
Average annual miles per driver by age.

The average is about 13,500 miles per year.

37 posted on 12/22/2011 2:39:44 PM PST by thesharkboy (poet, know it.)
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To: thesharkboy
Nice link, but its a government link. Two links below your g-search says 15K. Other private org's say 23K.

Next your going to tell me the CBO is accurate.

38 posted on 12/22/2011 2:45:02 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: qwerty1234

Sorry, I did misstate...the fact is still bad; gas prices cost more in 2011 than any time in recent history. Here is the exact quote from the article:

The average American household will have spent,a record, $4,155 filling up this year.


39 posted on 12/22/2011 2:48:06 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: thesharkboy

Sorry, I did misstate...the fact is still bad; gas prices cost more in 2011 than any time in recent history. Here is the exact quote from the article:

The average American household will have spent,a record, $4,155 filling up this year.


40 posted on 12/22/2011 2:52:57 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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