Holiday Drivers See Record-High Gas Rates (Another record for Junior)

[NNN0LHI]

Record deficits. Record number of jobs lost during a presidents term. Record number of personal bankruptcies. I know I am missing a bunch more, but will leave it at that for now. Don

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20030830/ap_on_re_us/labor_day_travel

Many American drivers got a nasty surprise as they took off for the Labor Day holiday: record high gas prices in many areas of the country that averaged nearly $1.75 per gallon, up 15 cents in the last two weeks.

AAA predicted 33.4 million Americans would travel at least 50 miles from home for the three-day weekend, the highest number since 1995. And 28.2 million, or 84 percent, were expected to travel by motor vehicle.

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[Champion Jack]

1. $1.75 would be cheap here

L.A.

I just paid $2.19 for regular









.

[mmm]

2. Two reasons gas had to go up:

1. The lights went out in Georgia
2. terra

[Pepperbelly]

5. Absolutely, totally WRONG.

1. Bush

2. Cheney

[SOS]

3. Prior to the PNAC invasion of Iraq

the US was getting about 8% of it's oil from...Iraq!
The Saudi's, as the swing producer, aren't doing much to fill the gap after all the recent accusations.
In the fantasy world of PNAC, the grand prize is Saudi Arabia and the Saudis know it.

[DeaconBlues]

4. If we had a Democratic

White House and Congress this kind of price-gouging wouldn't be going on. We use to have a government that was a corporate watchdog, now screwing the consumer is seen as being just a natural part of the system. Where's the outrage?

[Kbowe]

6. Anyone driving this holiday who really doesn't have to earns the right

to pay those high prices. There should have been a national boycott of these gougers...but Americans are too self-absorbed to care about principles or anyone outside of themselves.