Gas Prices

cawacko

cawacko

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Anyone else notice gas prices rising recently? I think California pays more than most places (i do know San Francisco pays the most because we are special). Maybe I notice it because I'm driving more recently but prices for 89 gas have risen from around $3.29/gallon to $3.69.

LOL... my tank was on the red the other day and I put $5 in and my tank was still on the red! Man, I remember back when putting in a $1 when you were almost empty could get you pretty far.
 
the low grade stuff is $2.90 here. I read an article the other day that said that prices could reach a national average of $3.75 by Spring. If that happens you guys on the coasts....in fact every one of us are going to be hurting more.
 
cawacko said:
Anyone else notice gas prices rising recently? I think California pays more than most places (i do know San Francisco pays the most because we are special). Maybe I notice it because I'm driving more recently but prices for 89 gas have risen from around $3.29/gallon to $3.69.

LOL... my tank was on the red the other day and I put $5 in and my tank was still on the red! Man, I remember back when putting in a $1 when you were almost empty could get you pretty far.
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I think Alaska beats you...
 
It's 3.79- 3.89 here...glad I drive a Prius :D

I sure seem to remember liberal's whining uproariously and blaming Bush for high gas in 04... yet nothing against Obama~
 
I am no financial guru by any means but I see rising gas prices as one of the big things, if not the biggest thing, that will kill any sort of slight economic recovery for the normal guy right now. Something's gotta give. I know of three families who are cancelling their vacations right now due to high gas prices. I know that's not as big a deal as the guy who can't put gas in his vehicle to drive to work but it still has a negative effect on the economy when so much of one's budget goes to one thing. When vacations are cancelled the tourism industry suffers. Also grocery prices are rising as well to cover the expense of gasoline, making it harder on the fellow who is trying to get by right now. I've been riding my bike to work for a month now, no matter the weather and will continue. I know that Topper's $4 a gallon may be cheap to the oil companies and investors and whoever else makes money on the sale of gasoline as to how much profit is actually made by them, but it sure isn't cheap for the guy having to drive 30 - 40 miles to work a job that pays $10 per hour. It's a back breaker
 
Bullshit, old school thinking for old school fellas. Today's SUV & trucks are much more efficient.

$4 is a bumb in the road, $5 may generate some dampening.

$40 to $60,000 SUV's and Cars gasoline is @ 4 is not stopping anyone
 
$4 wouldn't be a problem if people had reasonable alternatives to driving everywhere that they went, but in most places those reasonable alternatives do not exist.
 
Topspin said:
Bullshit, old school thinking for old school fellas. Today's SUV & trucks are much more efficient.

$4 is a bumb in the road, $5 may generate some dampening.

$40 to $60,000 SUV's and Cars gasoline is @ 4 is not stopping anyone
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There is a disconnect w/ you on anything related to oil/gas.

The above is completely out of touch with regular working Americans. Leaningright knows 3 families who have canceled vactions already; I know people with longer commutes & fixed incomes that are having a brutal time already. For anyone in the middle class or below - and even some in what is considered "upper" - $4 is not a good price at all, and much more than a bump in the road...
 
A task force charged with reining in U.S. debt is proposing a 15 cent per gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax.

The report from Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson recommends spending cuts beginning in 2012, as well as tax reform and other ways to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.

Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee who co-authored a bipartisan tax reform proposal cited in the draft, characterized the report as an "aggressive and comprehensive plan ... I look forward to reviewing it in depth and hopefully improving on it."

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/10/news/economy/fiscal_commission_prelim_report/index.htm?iid=EL
 
Obama and the Eco-terrorist want gas prices high. He will be re-elected and gas prices will go even higher.
Gas is all but $4 gallon now and growth continues at near 3%, don't confuse globalization's affect on middle class incomes and employment with gas prices.
Again, do some research on car's efficiencies. Toyota has sold 1,000,000 prius's which get 50 mpg.
 
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