Posted on 07/23/2006 3:40:55 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Nationwide gas prices hit an all-time high in the last two weeks, rising nearly 2 cents to just over $3 per gallon, according to a survey released Sunday.
The national average for self-serve regular stood at $3.0150 a gallon Friday, up 1.98 cents in the last two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 gas stations across the country.
The price exceed the previous high of $3.0117 set in September last year, analyst Trilby Lundberg said.
A gallon of mid-grade gasoline averaged around $3.12, and premium at nearly $3.22.
Nationwide, the lowest price for regular was $2.77 a gallon in Charleston, S.C., while the highest - $3.28 a gallon - was in San Diego.
This is not rational communication.
You get no sympathy from me with your crying and refusal to do any thing about it.
I have a company car so I'm not much affected.
However when driving at the speed limit + 5 mph in Indiana, I am (on average) passed by 8 cars for every 1 that I pass.
Which tells me that most folks value time over money at $3/gallon.
As Marv Albert would say: Yes!
I've done plenty. I've gotten an education and a good job. My concerns are not for myself, but the majority of my friends, all of whom are now struggling to make ends meet.
So, what am I supposed to do about my friends? Tell 'em, too bad, should have done more, you got what you deserved? Sorry, I don't do social Darwinism.
"I am paying $160 a month for fuel. How about everyone else?"
~$500.00
"Tell 'em, too bad, should have done more, you got what you deserved?"
Absolutely!
Why is that?? Why do we have to stay in one place just to make a living.. That is one of the benefits of living in this nation, if you can't make a living in place you get off your butt by doing what it takes to a new area that has a better living..
"You're in Alaska. You get PAID for oil extracted from our country."
Just think of the fools who live in CA and FL who have oil off shore and don't let the country drill for it. They could be making a fortune in state revenue and all the ancillary businesses connected to oil exploration. They deserve to pay at least $5/gal. for being energy parasites on Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, and should be walking or biking to work while admiring their pristine environment.
Yikes, where are you? I get snarky when I can't find milk on sale for $1.99, and it rarely goes to $2.49. Hamburger runs about $2.12 a pound at Sam's Club, and that's for ground round. I've managed to cut costs in small ways, like buying bread at the local Hostess and Aunt Millie outlets (Wonder bread for $.62 a loaf!), and every penny goes right into the gas tank.
It wasn't that long ago that milk was more than gas. Now I wish our tanks could burn lactose.
NASCAR still uses leaded fuel. Next year they move to unleaded.
J. is a young man who graduated from one of the best public schools in the country. He went to the local state school on a partial scholarship. He wants to be a biology teacher. He grew up in a very poor, single-parent household. However, due to a New York state student loan screw-up, his loan didn't go through so he had a $6000 balance against the school. This forced him to quit school and get a job working retail. The pay sucks. So what did he do wrong? As far as I can tell, his only fault was growing up the child of a single father.
N. is an absolute genius, but he made some stupid choices as an immature college student. He tried to turn things around in his late 20's when he got married. He got a good job with the county, working as a nurse's aide and was in the queue to train as a nurse. While driving to the supermarket, a tourist from Canada T-boned him and caused him a severe cervical and thoracic strain/sprain, herniating two discs and damaging two others. Right now, he's still on work restriction, unable to lift more than 20 lbs. or perform any repetitive tasks. Right now, he and his wife are dependant upon her salary as a call center operator.
So, should I tell them, suck it up, your finacial struggles are your own fault? A society that provides no opportunities to such men will degenerate into chaos, since becoming a gangster will be the only means of opportunity.
Sorry no one is entitled to anything.. Life is tough..
Can we drill ANWAR yet?
Here are the average gasoline taxes in the U.S.:
State 17.9 cents
Other 5.7 cents
Federal 18.4 cents
Total 42.0 cents per gallon
That means $3 per gallon could be selling at $2.58.
Or, put another way, government makes a cool, 16.3% risk-free profit on each gallon of gas.
There has to be a lag on some of these averages.
Gas hasn't been $3 a gallon where I'm at in Ohio for a week and a half now.
High gas prices are the price we pay for having too many Liberals in the US Senate.
Naw blame the oil companies...
Interesting, only yesterday we were commenting that local (L.A.) price had dropped a couple of cents.
That's exactly how this country was made, wasn't it?
I know the previous poster's reply sounds glib, but for crying out loud . . . you live in one of those rare parts of the country where the flight of manufacturing jobs overseas has had almost no impact -- since most of these jobs left New York for other places in the U.S. decades ago.
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