Driving Prices Higher »
Posted by: STONERS 1 year, 3 months ago162 Comments Report this Story
Gas prices are hitting record highs, sending the nation into a spasm of shared angst. Average prices nationwide now exceed $3.22 for a gallon of regular, and many people are pledging to drive less while politicians agitate against "price gouging" and fat oil company profits.
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STONERS1 year, 3 months ago
Still, prices have spiked 50 percent since late January and are expected to climb moreâ;;perhaps substantially if there's an active hurricane season, as predicted. Prices have already exceeded forecasts for the usual hikes that precede summer's driving seasonâ;;and are higher than last year, though the cost of crude oil, about $65 a barrel, is lower.
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
$3.22? Oh, you poor babies! *eye roll* Come on out to Seattle and help us enjoy our $3.50 prices!!! FEH!
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
Correction, it's actually $3.57 at the corner station today.
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mark-stevens1 year, 3 months ago
Is anyone who voted for a president that made his money in oil surprised at this!!!
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Pockets_Empty1 year, 3 months ago
I don't know how gas prices can jump up .10 to .15 at noon, just because a news flash came out at 6 am. I know the stations didn't pay that amount for gas already in the tanks, or on the way to the station that day. And why does it jump .10 to .15 and only drop by .02 or .03 every other week?
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ciera-marie1 year, 3 months ago
Good submission STONERS.
A friend and I were talking about gas prices and Americans driving habits. I don't think there will be true outcry until gas is $5.00 a gallon or more.
Sure right now the poor and lower middle class are struggling but the upper middle class ($100,000 a year or more) haven't had to change their habits because they can afford not to. Right now the decision to change is still in their hands. They're not being forced to make drastic changes or change habits like some of us are having to do.
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anewperspective1 year, 1 month ago
Right, funny thing oil companies feel guilty enough to give us reasons for the price hikes. The news reported a couple weeks ago that even though crude oil prices lowered they had to raise prices for refinery renovations. When did we vote on that? Can't trillion dollar corporations shell out a million to take care of their own refineries?
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ramblingwreck1 year, 3 months ago
Given the price of gas, we'll have to walk to the revolution!
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tryinghard1 year, 3 months ago
$3.05 here in SouthCentral Pa...
As long as I can get what I want and when, I will keep paying. I'm on a fixed income...too.
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brothers1 year, 3 months ago
New Jersey is set to up the gas tax but for how much is not known yet. I suppose we will have to learn to drive small cars again instead of the SUV's that are driven now. You think that will happen??? I bet not.
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1Crissy1 year, 3 months ago
I live in Virginia and the lowest I have found was 2.83 per gallon while other places in the same county are 3.20. Someone needs to do something. With gas prices going up, so is everything else, except our salaries, of course.
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FatherWeebles1 year, 3 months ago
Onoes it looks like karma to all those needless gas gussling SUV drivers... i hope prices go higher so you fools drive more energy efficient vehicles
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OldRusty1 year, 3 months ago
Some one told about, those turn on the pump cards,that are fake, just drive off with out paying, now thats cheap gas.
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sideways1 year, 3 months ago
$3.37 on the corner in San Diego
Nice huh.
Go oil companies. Only what was it, $365 Billion in PROFITS last year for Exxon/Mobil? A Billion a day keeps the ...
peace~
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HMMace1 year, 3 months ago
George Bush is a terrible failure as a president of this country..pres roosevelt emmediately froze all prices when WW2 started- to stop war prfiteering..Mr. Bush is profitting from this war, as is cheny..they do not want to end it, for losing thier profits..These two men should immediately be impeached...Then Bush sould be tried for treason for making secret deals with the Saudis, not in this countrys best interest..cheny for making secret deals with the oil companys, --so now we have the highest oil prices ever..We must --NEVER RE ELECT ANY POLITICIAN--EVER...WE MUST ALSO DEPORT EVERY ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM THIS COUNTRY--AND SEND THE BILL FOR IT TO THE COMPANYS WHO USED THEM AS SCAB LABOR..Then put army snipers on the border from texas to calif, and kill any one who enters our country illegally...That way we can kill all terrorists who try to come and kill us..along with the drug runners too.. A win win situation.
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ramblingwreck1 year, 3 months ago
You're really good at mixing issues. Interstingly enough, you didn't seem to feel the need to provide any proof of your allegations.....ain't the net wonderful? It provides a medium for everyone to state their view regardless of their bias or lack of evidence.
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
It probably would have skyrocketed if we were using it as car fuel!
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
I would not whine so much if they didn't have to do it so often!
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CarlM821 year, 3 months ago
I know that in the past decade milk hasn't gone up a red cent. I should know. I'm a grocery worker!
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ramblingwreck1 year, 3 months ago
Try water. $.79 for a 20oz bottle. There are 128 ounces in a gallon...do the math. I haven't seen anyone complaining about the price of water....imagine their profits.
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ramblingwreck1 year, 3 months ago
I have it on good authority that the problem with the price of milk is the cows. They are demanding better working conditions; they all want to be like the "happy" cows in Ca. We need also be aware that these very same discontented cows are making a signifcant contribution to global warming either by their excessive burping or equally excessive flatulence (it depends on which story you want to believe).
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
Damn ab! Tell us how you REALLY feel. LMAO!!!
I have a newspaper from the day I was born, I'll bet I can tell you how much milk has gone up - give me a minute = ]
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
Bout the closest I can come to any cow product was New York steak at the FM Cafeteria in Kerney Mesa, CA @ $2.29 in 1965 - you do the math = ]
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BronxBomber1 year, 3 months ago
"I can't argue with your level of wit and intelligence."
Hey Alfalfa, when you're right, you're right.
;o)
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
Like I said I have a 40 year old news paper, I could tell you prices on quite a few things. You wouldn't believe it! Then again, as the price of consumer products rise so goeth your salary and the cost of living in general.
I'm sure people in the 70's were balking at .65 a gallon gas prices and wouldn't we kill to be there right now? So, there ya go!
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ramblingwreck1 year, 3 months ago
"I'm sure people in the 70's were balking at .65 a gallon gas prices "
Yes we were....and waiting in Carter's gas lines on our respective day (even or odd depending on our license plate number) to get it...
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
hehehehehehe - well, you were around to see the dinosaurs die off so why aren't you drilling oil and making stacks of cash?
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PaganGodess1 year, 3 months ago
LMAO!!! . . . and life as we now know it was still slithering out of pond scum?
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