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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:30 AM
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30 cents/gallon more at corner gas store since yesterday. Not a dime.
Thirty cents.

That makes a dollar increase in less than six weeks.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:32 AM
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1. Have prices crossed the 3.00 mark?
Ours are up to 2.90 - it was 2.75 on Monday. Where were your prices just before the steady diet of biweekly hikes? Ours was about at 2.36 - 2.43 - so not as steep of a climb... So far...
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 12:49 PM
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14. Here we go: $2.97/3.19/3.39. I'm not kidding. n/t
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 12:52 PM
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15. I'm going to quit driving my Acura (20/28mpg)
and drive my husband's old Escort wagon that gets 30-40 mpg. It might not be the nicest looking vehicle in the world, but it gets from point A to B, now I work in RE sales, my company decides to fire me for driving a clunker I'll sue their asses!
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:36 AM
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2. Yesterday afternoon here in N. Georgia,
the price was an average of $2.89. I just know when I go out today, it will be over the $3 mark.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:38 AM
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3. Why are they doing this?
because they can, and also because they want 10 billion dollars profit in one quarter....
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:47 AM
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7. They got to pay for all the repigs political campaigns somehow!
It may as well be your money that pays for it!
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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:40 AM
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4. Gas can still be had for 2.65 in Columbus
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:40 AM
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5. In high school in the mid 60's we thought gas was high when it hit 30 cent
a gallon. Full service too. Check the oil, tires and wash the windshield. I still think it is wrong for a woman to have to fuel her own vehicle, I guess thats just the okie in me.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 09:54 AM
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11. From the inflation calculator...
What cost $.30 in 1966 would cost $1.76 in 2005.

Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2005 and 1966,
they would cost you $.30 and $0.05 respectively.
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:52 AM
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13. Hey fellow Okie!
I'm a mad Okie too!! I get angry every time I think of gas prices!!

Actually, I don't mind pumping my own gas, I just want them to charge a reasonable price!!

I remember 30 cents per gallon too!
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:43 AM
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6. It passed $3.00 on Monday
It averaged $3.09 to $3.19 yesterday. I am afraid to see what it is today. If you are in New Jersey (cheaper there than here in NY), I don't want to know. It is already costing me $25.00 a week for half a tank to just drive back and forth to work.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:49 AM
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8. Everywhere in Northern Virginia,
at least as far as I've seen, driving all over, there's nothing under $3 anywhere - including the old "cut-rate," no-frills stations, like Liberty and No-Name.

Every place has the exact same prices.

Can you say "price-fixing"?
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 09:00 AM
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9. Price Goes Up For Exactly The Same Gas ... No Tanker Truck Stopped.
You buy gas in the morning for $2.90, you come back two hours later and the price is up to $3.00 per gallon. In the time between the first visit and the second no new gas was added to the station's underground tank. So now tell me, how is gas that was worth two ninety at nine in the morning now worth three bucks at noon? The tank truck did not alight and disgorge a more pricey cargo than what was in the tank before. You are simply being sold exactly the same gas for a higher price.

Bush threatens to nuke Iran and the price goes up. Here we are told there are shortages in the Northeast. Someone tell me how a threat yesterday materializes as a shortage today when no a single bit less product has reached these shores.
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The Blue Flower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 09:14 AM
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10. 3.00 in Seattle
n/t
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 11:47 AM
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12. what really burns my butt about this is...
At a time when the people, who really can't afford to pay these kinds of scalping prices, oil company CEOs are getting $400 million retirement packages and oil companies are making record profits!!!!!!!!!

And we all know where they're making record profits, don't we? By over charging everyone else for their products!!!

Yesterday gas here was $2.79 per gallon (Oklahoma). I put $25.00 in my little Nissan......it almost gave me a full tank. I figured I'd better get gas now before it goes any higher.
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