And now its $2 bucks a gallon for gas??!

[KelleyKramer]

Why isn't anyone raising hell about gas prices??!

You don’t hear ANYTHING about people paying these jacked-up prices.

I'm getting pretty pissed... Damn near $2 a gallon is friggen robbery!!

When Clinton was president and it went up .25 people were throwing fits.. It was ALL OVER the news.
Everytime you turned on your tv they were talking about Clinton raised the gas prices by .20 to .25 a gallon.

Now its $2 friggen dollars a gallon. DAMNIT!

This is a RIP OFF!

But now the media doesn’t say anything.

But the media is all in a frenzy because a couple of locals were charging $5 for a bag of ice during a storm. The media wanted extra prison time for this 'outrageous gouging' of the public.

How many bags of 'gouged' gasoline go into every single Americans car every single day?

These gas prices are nothing but a RIP OFF and we should make the media report it!


Kelley

[LosinIt]

1. in Rochester, NY it's $2.15 and higher

has been for some time

[chicagojoe]

Same thing around Chicago.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Hey that's CHEAP!

Here in Las Vegas there was a new round of price increases today. Of the 20 or so stations I saw coming home from work the cheapest was $2.299. Many were as high as $2.379.

I am steeling myself for the inevitable $3.009. :(

[KelleyKramer]

6. Thats a total rip off

Man they are jacking you worse than they are here.

These prices are just like looking at a Halliburton 'no-bid' contract for the war in Iraq.

[Eye and Monkey]

3. that's 30$/barrell gas you're buying - when your're buying 54$/barrell

gas in November, December, January - it'll be pretty chilly, and your heating bill will also be going through the roof. And, let's see, the "election" will still be under dispute; Iraq will be bloodier, and the first "draft" plans will be leaking, etc.

[necso]

10. Sounds about right.

But the retail price in California, at least, has seemed to me to be "out of whack" for some time.

And if Bush gets back in, I expect that the industry will gouge us like crazy... no risk of any windfall tax.

[Eye and Monkey]

22. And if BushCo doesn't quite manage to steal the election, expect -

that the lame-duck period will see OUTRAGEOUS gouging. Heating oil as well as gas. And of course, this is likely to continue into the Kerry presidency - chance to make a tidy windfall as well as bash Dems.

[goclark]

4. It was $2.46 in Los Angeles today

for low octane!

[KelleyKramer]

7. Are you serious??

Thats basically 2.50 a gallon.

Do you pay that at the pump every week??

[goclark]

18. I paid it this week

$2.46 for REGULAR gas!
I was in shock.
I have a PT Cruiser but what about the other people!
I can't remember it so high.

[Neshanic]

5. Uh, been paying 2 buck minimum all summer, now 2.20....

In Phoenix. 2.35 for the good stuff.

[951]

8. Oh get over it its $2.53 here in Southern CA

[KelleyKramer]

9. Get over it??

If I have $5 a gallon will you get over it?


What would it take for you to get over it?

Better yet, how high does it have to go before you realize its nothing but a rip off??

It cost them like .10 a gallon.. Actually they are now getting a lot it of for free.

Is $5 a gallon high?

How about $10 a gallon at the pump?

[951]

12. "What would it take for you to get over it?"

I'm already way over it remember I'm paying over 0.53 more than you

[Irishladdie]

19. I feel bad for people who make Min. Wage....

How in the hell do they afford it? It's terrible no matter how you look at it. The worst part is the majority of *'s supporters don't care, they are driving hummer's anyway.

[OneBlueSky]

11. don't know where you are, but it's been well over $2/gallon here . . .

for many months . . . here being the lower Hudson Valley area of New York . . .

[phylny]

16. I live in the Hudson Valley, too

and the price jumped from $2.12 to about $2.19 in what seemed like a day. In other places that I drive past, it's $2.29.

[maveric]

13. Thats all? $2.49 in San Diego!

[REP]

14. Wow! That's Super Low! I Paid $2.37/Gal for Regular Today

I'd be happy paying $2 or $1.98/gallon again!

[tom_paine]

15. Corporate TV Pravda is not allowed to criticize the Emperor* in such ways

Ours has different pathways of Tyranny, but in the end, it is identical in outcome to the Soviet Union.

With only a small difference remaining in that Corporate TV Pravda is occasionally permitted (or is a story so obvious the Empire chooses through it's CEOs that it is at least to be aired) to air a story, all out of context and usually still as positive for the Emperor as the circumstances warrant) to be played for a short time, provided it isn't the many VERY BIG LIES in the room.

Amerikan media is more and more every day more functionally equal to Soviet or nazi media.

[gulliver]

17. But wasn't Bush going to "jawbone" the Saudis to "open the spigot?"

When's he going to commence to jawboning?

[6th Borough]

20. I want MY TWO DOLLARS!

Sorry...I know this isn't the lounge, but I couldn't resist :dunce:

[RebelOne]

21. Well, here in Georgia, regular hasn't gone over $2 yet.

At least not where I live in North Georgia. It's averaging about $1.90. Premium is over $2, though.

[Rjnerd]

23. Vote with your feet (literally)

The median car trip in the USA is under 2 miles. Yup, despite sprawl zoning, regional big box stores, etc, half the time the average automobile is started, it moves less than 2 miles.

Start burning carbohydrates, rather than hydrocarbons. Walk if its close, or pump up your bike tires, and pedal to the video rental joint. My parents didn't drive me to school, why should a healthy 12 year old need an adult, 2 tons of steel, and several ounces of petroleum, to get 1.25 miles to an athletic practice?

If 10% of the very short trips stopped happening, it would do wonders for our oil imports, air quality (engines pollute most when cold), and the obesity epidemic. (And cycling is on average safer than driving. Done correctly, its much safer than driving)

The only disadvantage is that a layer of insulating fat will help with the cost of the upcoming heating season.