$3.13? feh... i can't even remember back that far
Posted on 02/23/2012 10:48:19 PM PST by advance_copy
BOISE, Idaho - Gas prices have gone up 7 cents in the last week and drivers say they are starting feel the pain at the pump. We talked to drivers as they filled up for 3.13 a gallon.
"I think it sucks!" said Emily Chandler, a Boise driver.
She wasn't the only one who felt that way.
"It's not OK," said Abu Mohamed, another local resident.
"You just got to fill up and get to work so there's not much you can do," Sean Nicholas said.
At $3.13 a gallon, these drivers paid 3 cents less than Boise's average. The national average is $3.56 and that's 35 cents higher than just one year ago and AAA says it will likely go up until the spring.
Right now refineries are making the switch from winter grade to summer grade gas and that means less supply, same demand, which equals higher prices.
Meanwhile, drivers say they are cutting back on driving, grouping their trips and some are even walking more.
"I probably wont take any vacation," Mohamed said.
"'ll probably cut back on some camping trips and stuff," Nicholas said.
Others will cut back elsewhere.
"I got to go on a trip once in a while but I try to keep it down in the city," Chandler said.
(Excerpt) Read more at kboi2.com ...
$3.13? feh... i can't even remember back that far
I think the bigger problem that is underlying, or between-the-lines is, that these people are about $5 a week from poverty.
I had a Subaru WRX, which required high-octane. (With low octane, it got around 17mpg, high topped out at 23). When I had to load high octane in 2009 (when it was $4.50ish/gallon) people used to take pity on me. It’s just a few cents more per tank. Basically, the difference between a large and small coffee on the commute.
In my Jeep Wrangler (think 8 mpg) it cost me between $120 and $150 per week to work (I work on the road, pay my own way). And that hurt. Gas prices hurt all of us, but the doom-and-gloom messages that I see aren’t to be blamed on the gas prices. It’s the economy overall. America should be a country that can absorb this cost. It’s sad that our people are so close to poverty that a cost increase is devastating.
This takes away from the real news of Food costs. That is where I’m feeling it. It used to run my wife and I $80 a week to eat. Now it’s about $140. That’s almost twice what we paid just over a year ago. Food and Energy is what’s REALLY making us hurt. And we, as a country, can do something about that.
Yes, our government has thrown us to the wolves, and told us they don’t care about our energy needs or future. But the media is drawing too much attention to it. They have REALLY told us that they don’t care about our health and lives as citizens. The gas argument distracts from that.
“They interview two “random” drivers in Boise and one is a Muslim?”
...total insanity! Michigan yes. Houston yes. Boise?!
Actually he told the truth on a lot of things.
Oddly enough people just either did not believe him, wanted those things, or were in denial that if could happen here.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/
I would say this to anyone but more so to those that have fuel tanks at home or at your business.
Lock them up, buy locking gas caps, use video cameras at your storage tanks.
I have a 2,000 gallon above ground tank and one of our most trusted employees was bringing in his buddies diesel trucks and pumping off fuel.
Fuel thieves are getting crafty, fuel is liquid gold now, just like the recent copper craze its now diesel fuel.
Do you have that in the form of a sticker, about the same size?
That would make a good gas pump sticker.
I'm buying a pig this spring...
A week ago today in western MI, it was $3.23. Now, it’s $3.70. That TV reporter should have been here, because price jumps are $0.20 at a minimum, often $0.30 or more. Been that way for a while now.
I will agree with that big time. I have more generic boxes of stuff on my pantry shelves than ever. Meat is severely limited to low end cuts, if purchased at all some weeks.
I am honestly scared to death about the gas prices jumping. Cuts are going to be made in many households...how? I don't want to be on the government dole, I want nothing from this bastardized system.
I just want my life and livelihood back.
Oh and just an FYI...
The government is complaining there isn’t enough of a gas tax to pay for the roads, bridges, and transit. Google the USA today for further details...
its circular with the gas/fuel prices being the cause of all our price increases...Mrs G has commented every week for the last couple yrs about the groceries, and insurances, and electric and water and clothing etc etc etc...
fact is, how dumb can we be ???...saddam HUSSEIN torched kuwait in the early nineties, the mullah whackjobs have threatened to cut their output, the sauds regularly do so as well, and weve not allowed an increase in our capacity, in 20 yrs...
here it is, 2012, and we still bicker and play politics, with our populaion on the brink of being able to heat our homes and keep the lights on...
DCs lamposts shoulda been filled to capacity looooooooong ago...but alas, the muzzcomm-n-chief will be reannointed and the posters for the ages will be uncle bambam in a turbin with the caption "I want yours"...
It went up four cents ovet night here in lovely liberal Wake County, NC.
High gas prices will cost the dems every rural state where driving long distances is necessary.
I’ve made up my mind on this issue. If, while filling my car, someone starts to complain about the pump price, I’m going to ask them who they voted for in 2008. If they say the American, then the conversation will be dropped. If they say the Kenyan clown, I will say that that’s the hope and change you voted for. They are partly responsible for having to shell out more for gas. Then I’ll tell them about how Ø has stood in the way of drilling.
People need to put race and blind allegiance aside this time around. It’ll end up costing everyone in the end.
Where do you think Obama’s been getting all that money for the spending, the 5+ trillion in debt? , paying for the wars, the GM bailouts, the free college, the tax credits, the housing programs, the handouts to unions, all keeping the Bush era tax rates and adding the FICA/SS tax cuts for two years? You think there are investors actually loaning the US all of that money?
The Federal reserve has been creating new money for a number of years now. The slow job growth and low consumer confidence has kept inflation under control, but any up-tick in the economy will create the same conditions we saw in 2008 with rising prices until it chokes off the economy again. But Obama hopes that is past his re-election. That is then we pay when Obama calls for *deficit reduction* with those automatic tax increases.
There is no one left in Washington to explain that. Democrats just want Obama elected(they want to get Republicans to talk about birth control instead) , and Republicans being whipped are terrified to talk about deficits, they will just propose more tax cuts on top of spending, Remember the rule of both sides : “Spending is free if you just borrow it instead of paying for it”
I’ll bet premium in Malibu hits 5 bucks over the weekend.
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