Have Gas Prices Leveled Off.........

For now????....Im in Seattle where 89 octane is going for $2.89gal.

Is this the new low for fuel or do you think the oil companys will lower it back down to $2.00-2.50gal.

What are you paying in your city today?

up 67 cents from 2 weeks ago, for 89 octane...still think they are going higher. Bush's cronies have to squeeze every dollar they can before Dems take control.

He's going for a pocketbook trifecta:

He told Fox News Sunday he will continue a close partnership with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, to act aggressively in the next eight weeks to push an agenda of lowering gas prices, cutting taxes and enforcing immigration laws. http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/5047427/detail.html

Guess he figures if he makes it cheaper for us at the pump, cuts our taxes to boot, and prevents them furriners from taking our jobs, we'll forgive him his trespasses!

. . . but the pattern I've noticed since 2000 is that it will go up a lot, go down a bit, go up a lot, go down a bit. When it goes down a bit, people feel relief even though where it has gone down to is way higher than where it was. This whole thing seems to me to be a way to acclimate people to higher prices and more profit for the refineries and drillers.

No-name gas is about 2.76/gallon. It has stayed there for a while.
That is still 30 cents/gallon higher than before Katrina.

for regular. That doesn't look like "leveling off' to me.

(1)-Beyond all the Wall Street Journal-type "free market" rationalizations, present-day oil prices are the biggest price-gouge in modern U.S. history -- and quite possibly ever;

(2)-Bush's refusal to impose ceiling prices (or to take any other measures to bring down the prices) shows the extent to which he is a hand-in-glove collaborator with the profiteers;

(3)-The fact that since he took office in 2001 Bush has methodically slashed funding for the federal Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) indicates that today's skyrocketing fuel prices were long ago anticipated: that the fuel price increases are part of a greater Bush plan for facilitating concentration of wealth by the oligarchy and inflicting ever worsening hardships -- including death by exposure and starvation -- on everyone else.

Thus fuel prices will remain ruinously high (and no doubt will continue to shoot further upward at every excuse) until a REAL Democratic Administration takes office -- complete with a plan to nationalize the petroleum industry and prosecute all its present-day executives as Enemies of the People.

Until then, as in New Orleans, so in the rest of the United States -- especially if you happen to be old or disabled or poor. American life as we knew it is ended forever.

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Gas in my city -- Tacoma -- is typically about the same as in Seattle: $2.89 for regular at a nearby station. But I no longer drive: on my income I can't afford to -- my car hasn't been out of its parking place since gas soared above $2.39. This inflicts huge hardships: for example without the car I can no longer attend the vital exercise program in which I was a regular participant -- the lack of affordable transportation thereby literally a death sentence. And the grocery shopping that took me 45 minutes by car -- travel included -- now takes (because of the terrible herky-jerky snail's pace of bus transport) at least four hours. Moreover, such shopping can ONLY be done at night -- when the bus service is at its worse and the crime-plagued streets are at their most dangerous -- because (unlike in cities with REAL public transport systems) riders with personal shopping carts and/or oversize backpacks aren't allowed on these buses unless the buses are nearly empty. As I said above: American life as we knew it is ended forever.

Here they had dipped between 'caines and now they are edging up higher than ever.

2.79 to 2.99 to 3.19 back to 2.99 during last week.

Weird.

I don't buy anything more than regular, but the prices usually go up in 9 or 10 cent increments.

The $2.95 is after a ten cent increase Thursday, which was after a 9 cent increase on Monday.

There is absolutly no fundamental reason for the price of oil to be as high as it is. Demand is not causing what we are seeing, not at any local level, at a national level, or at the level of world oil prices - simply no reason at all.

I just got gas today at 3.09 a gallon!! :mad:

:D

In our area it is slightly under 3.

Give or take...it went up 20 cents since this past week.

I have a fuel-efficient car and don't mind seeing big honkin' SUVs paying $60 at the tank...I don't like the prce gauging though.

:crazy:

yesterday.