Yahoo: Motorists Could Face $2/gal Gasoline Soon (!!!)

[tedoll78]

"U.S. drivers could again face $2 a gallon gasoline now that crude oil has topped a record $50 a barrel, government experts said on Tuesday."

"The average retail gasoline price is likely to rise above $2 per gallon in the next three weeks as the effect of higher crude oil prices filters through from refiners to drivers, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&e=4&u=/nm/20040928/bs_nm/energy_gasoline_consumers_dc

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There are also Edwards' comments in the article. I'm glad.. maybe this will help tilt a few votes.

[David Dunham]

1. Right in time for the election.

[flamingyouth]

2. That would be a drop in price for me

I've been paying about $2.09 lately... :(

[onehandle]

28. That's an average. Expect a 20 to 30 cent increase. nt

nt

[Kool Kitty]

56. Yeah, we are too.

About $2.11 here.

[zach]

3. wow

I would love to see $2 a gallon gasoline again!

Here in the bay area I can't even remember the last time I saw gas for under $2.15 a gallon. :(

- Zach

[Chico Man]

35. I remember the $.98 gas during the Clinton years

What the hell happened?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

46. I remember pumping gas in the early 1970s....regular was 25 cents....

...per gallon.

[Tight_rope]

49. Oh...don't make me cry...I miss him so much!

[Katha]

61. Same here!

This summer it reached $2.74 in Los Angeles. I'd be happy with $2.10, let alone $2.00.

[Technowitch]

4. Pfft! In California, it's been over $2/gal for over a year now

At least that's my recollection. I can't remember the last time I saw it below $2/gal here in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Of course, I know they're talking about "average" prices and all, but geez, talk about a lame and misleading headline.

[MisterP]

15. and we have only middling gas taxes, evidently:

Tex. oil companies never stop screwin us (or their bodybuilder Vimminator)

[happynewyear]

27. $2.34 cheap stuff in the north

I tanked up at Costco today for the bargain price of $2.21 - saved myself $1.30. Luckily I only needed 10 gallons of gasoline and I do not drive very much.

I feel sad for those working the shit jobs that pay zip up here and you end up now spending 1/2 of your crappy little paycheck on gasoline to fuel that old tanker you must drive out of lack of anything else just to drive to that shit job. Is it even worth going to work if you make the minimum wage, work part-time and drive 100 miles a day? I kinda don't think so anymore.

Man, this whole thing S U C K S.

:dem: :kick:

[NeoConsSuck]

5. Do you mean the prices are going to drop??

I'm paying $2.20 now for 93 octane.

[still_one]

6. come to California whimps

[KalicoKitty]

7. Has been that plus, in Michigan for awhile now.

n/t

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. I just paid

$1.99 today... for the el cheapo grade. I feel sorry for you folks in California. It's bad enough here! :hi:

[politicaholic]

9. check it out, it's $2.17 p/g in Seattle...

I could almost fill my gas tank with beer for that.

"Higher gas prices are the sign of a failed presidency."
-Dick Cheney, 1999-

[krkaufman]

16. This is certainly a failed Presidency....

... but I wouldn't let that truth lure me into believing an oilman's spin. Higher gas prices just mean bigger profits for both him and Bush.

The price of gas is an irrelevant measure of the success or failure of a Presidency. Would low gas prices be worth forfeiting our reputation around the globe? Would low gas prices be worth 1,000 lives? 2,000?

A better question might be "how much would you be willing to pay for gas if it meant we could eliminate our dependence on foreign energy sources?"

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I'd agree, though, that high gas prices increase the pressure on the incumbent, and may have an influence on the election.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. I've seen it as low as $1.85 yesterday in Everett

But that should change soon

[LizW]

40. I paid $1.81 yesterday in Alabama

and that was up from $1.77 where it had been hovering for quite a while. I don't know why gas is so cheap here (relatively) but it's a good thing, since we have NO public transportation to speak of!

[NickB79]

55. Still $1.81 here in MN

It jumped from $1.79 to $1.99 overnight last Thurs, but has been sliding down ever since, since stabilizing between $1.81-$1.87 much of the Twin Cities and St. Cloud. I'm afraid it will jump up pretty shortly though.

[Quetzal]

10. It's 2.65 where I am

here in Maui, Hawaii.

The bad news? There are no mass transit alternatives.

[St. Jarvitude]

26. Yeah... but it's Maui

:cry:

Just joking... we have similarly high gas prices here (consistently plenty over $2/gal). I don't know what I would do without mass transit...

Is it possible for you to car pool to work (if you don't work from home)? I've never had to (I'm still a student) but I've heard good things about it.

[Quetzal]

42. It's alright

I don't work now. I am on vacation.

As for me, I will be moving to San Diego in a few weeks.

[happynewyear]

30. more lies from CNN re: prices in Honolulu!!!!!! *grrrrr*

I distinctly remember hearing CNN say the other day that the highest priced gasoline in the United States was in Honolulu, HI at a whopping price of $2.11 a gallon. What the hell kind of lying bullshit world is this we are living in? WHEN WILL THE LIES EVER STOP? WHEN WILL THE LIES EVER STOP!

I guess its * or bust eh?

What is the game exactly? I'd really LIKE to know!

OUT THE DOOR IN '04!!!!!!!!

KERRY/EDWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sal316]

11. Paid $2.07 this morning.

eom

[lovuian]

12. Somebody is getting really rich

:bounce:

[rfkrocks]

and where is a national energy strategy?

AWOL I suppose:evilgrin:

[SW FL Dem]

13. I've been paying over $2.00 for months now

Can't wait to see the price next time I fill up :(.

[Huckebein the Raven]

14. It's $2.03 here in Memphis... n/t

[Flammable Materials]

17. THESE STICKERS GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS ...

http://www.subvert.us/thankyou

[Roon]

18. A link for anyone interested

www.gaspricewatch.com

[Zech Marquis]

19. so much for Bander Bush helping us out!

:eyes: I bet the House of Saud is laughing their asses of over this news. They have to be!

[Rockholm]

20. $2.12 this morning! I will tell you where gas is >$2.00..

The South. Go figure.

[THUNDER HANDS]

21. $2.01 on Long Island

for regular. :puke:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Jimmy Carter was booted out for less. nt

[Lefty48197]

24. Gas is about $2.05 in Detroit. It sounds like it's going to hit $3.

The economy is strong and getting stronger.

[stevedeshazer]

25. Just paid $2.07/gal

Not California, either.

[Vanje]

62. My man! Wayne!

They dont make many like Senator Wayne Morse anymore.

In Red Idaho, gas is ~1.98 / gal, and rising.

[LastDemStanding]

29. Can you say "Drill ANWR"?

Coming soon to a land far far away and out of reach of 99.9% of motorists.

[happynewyear]

32. unfortunately, that will not solve a thing

The amount of oil in Alaska is minute. It will all be gone in 1-1/2 years. What IS the point you are trying to make?

[LastDemStanding]

36. My point

Is similar to Molly Ivins point in Bushworld. Is it really that hard to see?

[dave123williams]

31. $2.01 in LA, but that's down from almost $3.00 earlier in the year...

Gee, anybody else noticed that the price of gas is dropping the closer we get to the election? Curious.

[matt819]

33. That's so two weeks ago

I'm paying $2.12 for diesel in NH and VT

[Chico Man]

34. $1.99 - $2.15 in Rhode Island

[okieinpain]

37. what's 2/gal. hell I'm paying $1.77 right now and that's in little

ole' oklahoma.

[Gregorian]

38. Americans are so spoiled.

Right now, gas is $2 per gallon and a war.
The day it hits ten bucks a gallon, I'll celebrate. No, it won't make life easy. But I hate cars! Hate is a strong word, but I hate cars, and everything they've done to and for this society. You can flame me all you want. I'm a liberal; I'm a Democrat; And I know that gas has been artifially low priced. We just pay the balance in blood. Their blood. And that's the worst part.

[neomonkey]

39. Very old news here

Geez, the chasm around this country is enormous. I live in L.A. and I seriously can't remember the last time I didn't pay at least $2.00/gallon for my gas.

To think that there are areas of the country where this news would be greeted with (3) exlamation points tells me I seriously gotta move :)

[despairing optimist]

41. What's good news doing here? This is Latest Breaking News

and it's always depressing and bad! ;-)

In NYC $2 gas would be a relative bargain. In a few months it will be a fond memory.

There. I fixed it. Bad news at last.

[osaMABUSh]

43. Hey guys, I cheer every time gas goes up a nickel !

I think we are a bunch of idiots with idiot leaders who cling onto this fossil fuel addiction like we are warriors in one of those Mel Gibson Mad Max movies (wow, I thought for a second I was the old Dennis Miller on a rant).

We should be well beyond the point of developing alternative fuels and propulsion yet we are actually at the point where a bigger, badder Hummer-like monstrosity is on the way.

So as I drive my Honda Civic today and look forward to my next car (hybrid for sure) I laugh as I pass the gas station and say go ahead and break the $2 barrier. Maybe then we'll wake up and smell the peak oil.

Even if you don't agree with me in the long term at least for the next month let's have the high price of gas be another thorn in Bush's side.

[Zero Gravitas]

44. Good

with any luck it will peak at $3/gal on Election Day.

[GHOSTDANCER]

45. 2 whole dollars?

I paid 5 for a gallon of milk today. and most of you probably gulp down 8 dollar gallons of aquifina(When tallied up).

[durablend]

47. Great news!

When you freeze your ass off because you can't afford the heating oil and can't afford to buy anything because the truckers need their cut then we're really going to see bitching and moaning!

(BTW, that gallon of milk will be $10 by then)

[SoCalDem]

65. and????

BOTH commodities can be (and ARE) ripoffs..

Milk prices ARE related to gas prices , ya know??

EVERYTHING we buy is related to gas prices..

Unless you are getting your veggies from your garden, and are raising your own "protein on the hoof", gas prices are a factor for us all..

Even that $4 shirt from China, gets to Walmart with the aid of gasoline..and you pay to drive there too.:(

[Tight_rope]

48. I knew it...I knew it...,,,This shit is so predictable...

[Tight_rope]

50. Hope it gets there here in Texas...I'm tired of all the damn SUV's

[KeepItReal]

51. Can BigOil keep the prices from hitting the roof until *after* election?

The price per barrel has been going up and up, but the pump prices were not necessarily following that trend recently.

I'm thinking BigOil is forgoing profits/break-even right now in order to see their boy Bush & Co. get "re-elected". If they can do their part and keep consumers (and the media which reports it *after* we start screaming) from b*tching about higher gas prices, then if Bush & Co. get "re-elected" they can run up the prices as much as they want. All thanks to Bush & Co's lassiez faire, see-no-evil attitude.

[fortyfeetunder]

60. Big Oil CEO's trying to make their money...

before the * bubble (that is his election) goes bust.

[Gloria]

52. Saudis are saying they will increase production by 15% but the

analyst I heard this AM on the BBC says it won't make a difference because worldwide demand is so high (particularly in China)...

[Kimber Scott]

53. Paid $2.02 in Phoenix today.

nt

[Roland99]

54. Could??

The cheapest I saw last weekend in Seattle was about $1.90. The highest was $2.30 for 87 octane.

[hang a left]

57. uuuuuuuuh.....

San Diego county here and I can't remember when gas was under $2 here. 2.20 right now. Was up to 2.40 couple of months back.

[shanti]

58. been there, done that

i paid 2.45 last summer in cali in the central valley. i make sure that the oilmen don't get much from me tho...take the train to work and back. fuck them!! :grr: this is chimpy's doing, further enriching he and his buds.

HOW FUCKING RICH DOES ONE HAVE TO BE?????????

[fortyfeetunder]

59. Could face 2 bucks? Excuse me?

Come out West, it is well over 2 bucks a gallon.

OTOH, I am glad those Hummer driving scum are paying big bucks to fill their gas guzzling tanks.

[Pert_UK]

63. Boo-fucking-hoo...........It's over $5.50 a gallon here.

I just paid 81.9 pence per litre...which must be around $5.58 per US gallon.

I drive 100 miles a day to work and back.

Perhaps paying a reasonable price for oil may help focus everyone's minds on more fuel efficient cars and alternative transport methods.

However, it pisses me off that Bush and his friends are now probably making even more money than before due to these high oil prices.

P.

[SoCalDem]

64. HUH?? We have had $2+ gas for MONTHS..

I paid $2.17 for cheapo gas tonight:(

[Dem2theMax]

66. What do they mean AGAIN? Idiots. Have they been to So. Calif. lately?

I'd love to see $2.00 a gallon. hahahahahahahaha. Thanks for the laughs Yahoo 'news.' :eyes: