Posted on 02/18/2013 10:03:56 AM PST by george76
Per gallon cost has risen every business day for a month.
Consumers are taking another huge hit in 2013. First, the two percent Social Security tax hike began the year. Now, gas prices are soaring ever closer to $4 a gallon and have jumped 51 cents a gallon since Dec. 20.
According to the Oil Price Information Service, the national average for a gallon of unleaded was $3.21.9 on Dec. 20, 2012. Today, that price is $3.73.0. While there has been a steady increase, prices shot almost 9 cents just over the weekend.
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It took the media some time to catch on to rising gas prices, as "Good Morning America's" Josh Elliot said two weeks after the climb began that "we have just learned that gas prices have skyrocketed."
Those higher pump prices hurt consumers, who were already paying more for gas than in decades. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported recently that the average household spent more on gas last year, as a percentage of income, than it had in 30 years.
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He did say that he would have “more flexibility” after re-election...
$3.89.9 at the local EXXON ... SW Pennsyltucky
Yeah’n don’t forget the civilian army equally armed and equipped
It’s just market forces, so just shut up and pay the market price if you want to get between point A and B.
I will be suprised if we are not paying around $8 per gallon within the next four years. Even that may not be up to the level that Obama’s lackies would liketo see.
Gee, I wonder how the libtards will try and force all the free independent people to leave the burbs and rural areas, to move to the cesspool cities and worship government?
I don’t think it can get that high without all out collapse. I’m thinking 5.00 to 6.00 is tops.
I’m sire it has nothing to do with taxes or EPA regulations...
Nothing at all...
Do i really need the sarcasm tag?
I’m sure it has nothing to do with taxes or EPA regulations...
Nothing at all...
Do i really need the sarcasm tag?
Weird. Posted once. Refreshed. Nothing there. Went back, posted again... Two posts.
Delay on the servers again?
A market that’s goes down then up 40% in two months is a market that is severely stressed. I’ve seen no explanation on either the supply or demand side that can explain this enormous volatility.
Anybody else notice that there has been NO handwringing, NO plaintive wailing from the MSM this time on >$4 gas?
None. It’s no big deal now, you know, because the economy is doing so much bettter, people can afford it.
God has hardened the hearts of the American People as He hardened
the heart of Pharaoh so He can punish them for their
evil deed in refusing to reject this Evil Kenyan.
Gas prices are just one of the New Plagues.
God has hardened the hearts of the American People as He hardened
the heart of Pharaoh so He can punish them for their
evil deed in refusing to reject this Evil Kenyan.
Gas prices are just one of the New Plagues.
yeah, and he’s installed several rabidly hostile Islamofascist regimes, too, including his MuslimBrother pals in Egypt (you know, the ones that have wanted to kill Christians and Jews and take over the world since 1928, and who were illegal before O forced Mubarak to allow them to surface in public and participate in O’s big FIRST SPEECH to the People AS AMERICA’s President, his big speech in Cairo to the Muslim world....
(who ever said he is incompetent in office?!? He is accomplishing many of the things, to the letter, that he said he wanted to see happen...it is time to give him credit for what he accomplishes...)
Thousands of people protested washington about “climate change”. They were seriously opposed to the US being self sufficient. Give them what they want, and let them choke on it. When they freeze to death in the dark, I wouldn’t even give them the courtesy of a proper burial. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. I blame them for falling for it, and I blame us for not putting a stop to it.
Other terms not seen in the MSM since 09:
McJobs
Recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street
Homeless problem
Bigtime....this place is as broken as it was during the pre-election.
Market forces influenced by government regulations and enviro-fascist lawsuits which make refining gasoline an expensive endeavor. I see no specific conspiracy to raise gas prices but I do see policy level decisions that conspire to raise prices. Further, when gas was close to $4 bucks a gallon during the booming Bush years I had to listen to "pain at the pump" stories every night on the local news.
Time to send The Stain a “Thank You” card?
I'm sorry. I will never tempt fate like that again...
Nonsense. The gas price at my local station in PG County MD January 26 was $3.24.9/gal. Yesterday is was $3.89.9. that works out to $0.65 in less than four weeks.
Here’s all I did to boost my mpg (helps boost power too)
K&N air filter (they guar a couple mpg)
Insulated air intake (outside air is cooler than under-hood air, thus denser with O2)
Low restriction exhaust
50psi low profile tires
Mobil 1 oil
Strut tower bar increases handling
Manual trans (+10%)
Leave backseats out
Believe it or not, this PT Cruiser can burn the tires off. And handles very well. Gets 32mpg on highway and high 20s around town. Exceptional for a PT Cruiser. And very fun to drive.
The K&N extracts a price in increased engine wear due to more particulates getting past the filter.
That d... Bush....he’s been out of office for more than four years, and he’s still manipulating the gas prices for his oil buddies. It’s an outrage. (snicker)
A front end alignment also helps in fuel economy because if the wheels are out of alignment there is friction from the tires.
I remember in 2005, when gas prices were spiking, all my Lib/Prog neighbors were spouting that tired, old MSM-fed drivel about GWB intentionally keeping fuel prices high “to enrich his oil buddies.” Now, just eight years later, these same retard neighbors are absolutely convinced that a US president’s policies can have *no* influence whatsoever on the price of “global commodities.”
I swear these people are robots whose minds can be erased and reprogrammed at will. They don’t even remember claiming GWB manipulated fuel prices!!!
Josh Elliot said two weeks after the climb began that “we have just learned that gas prices have skyrocketed.”
When you live in a multimillion dollar apartment in Manhattan and are ferried around by a limousine, how would you have a clue about the price of gas unless your chauffeur decided to mention it to you? The elites living in big metropolitan areas don’t fill up their cars and many of them don’t own cars.
But remember, gas is a lot higher in Europe. sarcasm?
The liberal idiots who voted for obama will pay $100 to fill their tanks then say “It only cost $50 to fill my tank today.” They simply refuse to see what’s right in front of them.
And when their “nana” is refused treatment and allowed to die they’ll actually join the chorus and say “She had a good life.” And when they themselves reach 70 they’ll die with a dumb look on their face.
Market price? It would help if we had a President who didn’t consider himself King and keep the Keystone pipeline from being built. BUILD IT ANYWAY, DAMNIT!
"Well ya know, we're never gonna see gas prices go down until we get Bush and his oil bidness cronies out of the White House".
Never fails to either piss em off or get a rueful laugh.
How expensive would gas have to get for this to pay off?
Let's say your car currently gets 18 mpg, and that it would cost $1000 (on the low side) for the head replacement, and removing 50-75 pounds of weight would improve gas mileage by 3 percent (I think that's generous).
With gas at $8.00 a gallon, you would have to drive 80,000 miles to get your thousand bucks back. And you wouldn't want to swap out heads until your existing engine was out of warranty, right? So better be prepared to put 120,000 plus on her.
How expensive would gas have to be to make this deal pay off in a more reasonable 50,000 miles. Between $13 and $14 a gallon. And at that point we'll all be driving Fiat 500s anyway.
I love to run the numbers for people.......
You’re using basic math and logic.
Is that still allowed on FR?
Which is why so many of the so-called high MPG cars today don't make sense. My daily driver is is a 2005 Nissan Altima. It's all paid for, has a V6 with plenty of scat, gets 23-24 mpg, and holds four with luggage easily. Why the heck would I spend $20,000 on a less powerful, less comfortable 35mpg car in order to save $900 a year on gas?
Now if that $20,000 car got 90 mpg, or I was a sales rep who had to buy my own gas for 60,000 miles a year....maybe. But for the normal commuter, forget it.
In commercial trucking, which I was involved with for 25 years, the concept of “life cycle cost” is paramount.
I remember my buddy back in 73 (the first OPEC embargo) sold a beautiful Buick 225 for peanuts and bought a Vega. Took him about 2 weeks to figure out that was a dumb move.
Had it totally rusted through in two weeks?
In Cleveland, it took about 18 months for the front fenders to perforate. The GT model was fun to drive though, they had a great suspension and handled as good as anything on the road back then.
You are right about Vegas. Great design, abysmal execution. I was driving a 67 Dodge Charger (Petty blue with a 383, sweetest car evah) during the oil embargo and thankfully was never tempted to sell it.
I got trapped visiting Michigan on a Sunday in Jan 74.
No gas stations open anywhere. Of course my 69 Z28 sucked gas like a race car.
yup, utter hypocrisy, but since the msm votes about 95% democrat, why would they run hatchet pieces on their guy?!
you can overinflate by about 30-35% and you should see an improvement in mpg. wouldn’t recommend doing it in the winter, though.
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