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Poll: Americans hurting from rising gas prices (Obama said he wants rising prices)
cbs ^
| 3/1/2012
| By Lucy Madison
Posted on 03/01/2012 3:29:36 AM PST by tobyhill
Amid a national spike in gas prices, two in three Americans say the hike in costs is causing them financial hardship at home, according to a CBS News poll released Wednesday.
The poll, conducted between February 24 and 27, surveyed more than a thousand adults nationwide as gas prices continued to climb to an average of $3.731 per gallon, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report. A month ago, the average cost was more than $0.30 cheaper, at $3.429 dollars a gallon.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans say high gas prices have caused a financial hardship in their households; of those, 38 percent say that hardship is serious. Thirty-two percent of Americans say they had not suffered financial hardship to do the rising costs of gas.
Americans with lower household incomes are especially likely to feel pain at the pump. Forty-nine percent of those earning less than $50,000 say hikes in gas prices have caused them serious financial hardship; among those earning between $50,000 and $100,000, only 29 percent say the same thing. That number falls even further to 22 percent among those with incomes of $100,000 and higher.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:29:41 AM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
If the shiftless had to drive to pick up their welfare handouts, fan feces would fly!
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:44:58 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
To: tobyhill
I’ll gladly pay high gas prices until Nov. if it will bring down the Obamanation regime.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:45:32 AM PST
by
rightly_dividing
(You cannot put a gun rack in a Volt !)
To: tobyhill
No matter what OBama does, most of us will be living in real-time and will not fall for his pro America stance.
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:50:18 AM PST
by
Christie at the beach
(I like Newt and would love to see political dead bodies on the floor.)
To: Happy Rain
Wait until they line up for their “Gas Cards”. They will need to full up their Escalades to go job hunting. n/s
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:50:42 AM PST
by
cameraeye
(A happy kaffir!)
To: tobyhill
I wish ALL of AMERICA would finally shout the truth.
o (ONE) b (BIG) a (ASS) m (MISTAKE) a (AMERICA)
This guy hates free markets... he hates AMERICA, he hates Capitalism, he hates white people, he hates Christians and loves marxists, black racists and satan through mohammad.
LLS
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:51:17 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
To: cameraeye
Obama will probably give the useless leeches scarfing unearned government money gas tax “waivers.”
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posted on
03/01/2012 3:58:24 AM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
To: LibLieSlayer
We should also keep in mind that the price
of a gal of gas on Jan 26,2009 a week after
Obama was placed in office the avg price of a
gal of gas was $1.81. Now do you really want to
GO GREEN?
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posted on
03/01/2012 4:27:42 AM PST
by
gakrak
( A man should know his limitations and act accordingly.)
To: tobyhill
Ya think the brain dead sheeple will finally learn?
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posted on
03/01/2012 4:38:02 AM PST
by
Marathoner
(In the 80s we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no cash and no hope.)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
03/01/2012 5:13:11 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Marathoner
“Ya think the brain dead sheeple will finally learn?”
Ohhhhbaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaa!!!!
They will never learn. It is Bush’s fault. McGreevey, Florio and Corzine played the “Whitmanns” fault card in NJ for almost 8 years.
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posted on
03/01/2012 6:09:23 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
To: gakrak
I want to go ENERGY INDEPENDENT... and screw green... green=communism.
LLS
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posted on
03/01/2012 11:03:36 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
To: rightly_dividing
That is what my husband said the other day.
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posted on
03/01/2012 12:52:01 PM PST
by
diamond6
(Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
To: LibLieSlayer
Drill here... drill now!!
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posted on
03/01/2012 12:53:04 PM PST
by
diamond6
(Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
To: diamond6
Drill and Drill and Drill Now!
LLS
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