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Sat Apr-10-10 03:47 PM
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I speculate that the price of gas will increase in the next few months |
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Does that make me a bad person?
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Sat Apr-10-10 03:48 PM
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Sat Apr-10-10 03:49 PM
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3. If it hits $150 a gallon I'm buying stock in Schwinn |
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Sat Apr-10-10 03:48 PM
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2. gosh. summer time approaching and gas might go up? |
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:27 PM
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12. Yeah right? I bet the sun is going to shine too... |
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:59 PM
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20. Not summer. Election. |
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They want the economy to grind to a hault just before the election and then (thank you SCOTUS) they will buy millions or billions in ads to get their pet repub, teahadist, bought and paid for congress critters elected.
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Sat Apr-10-10 03:50 PM
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4. The Texas oil crowd will jack up the prices |
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to help slow the economic recovery for their rethug pals running for congress.
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Sat Apr-10-10 04:34 PM
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5. I speculate when it goes over $3.50 a gallon Congress will call |
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all the oil CEOs to Washington for their usual dog and pony show. The Congress will yell at them and insult them and the CEOs will say we don't have enough refineries or we need to drill more, end of show. The oil men go back and count their money and Congress goes out and campaigns for re-election.:puke:
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Sun Apr-11-10 01:38 PM
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39. ...and then the price will pass $4. n/t |
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Sat Apr-10-10 04:36 PM
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6. I don't think so. Obama will keep it down. |
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We went through this mess with the Bush regime making millions off us.
Seems rather insulting to suggest that Obama will do the same.
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:04 PM
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7. If Presidents controlled the price of gas, why is it $2.77 where I live? |
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Hell, make it a buck a gallon.
He'd be the most popular President of all-time.
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:37 PM
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9. That's what the Bush defenders said too |
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Edited on Sat Apr-10-10 05:37 PM by yodoobo
Wasn't true then either.
Fact is the leader of the United States has a great deal of influence.
$1.00 is a bit a strawman, but who else do you know that has control over 700,000,000 barrels of oil which can be used to favorably (or unfavorably) influence the market?
Fact is, the US government owns more oil than anyone on the planet and that oil is under the direct control of the whitehouse.
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Sat Apr-10-10 06:26 PM
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11. So Obama controls the price of gas. What should the price be? |
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Sat Apr-10-10 07:08 PM
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Haven't sat down and down an economic analysis and I don't have a team of people working for me to do such detail work.
But its not going to be pushing the extremes that hurt families like it did during the Bush years.
Btw, you overstate my message. He doesn't CONTROL the price of gas. He has a very strong INFLUENCE on the price of OIL.
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Sat Apr-10-10 07:32 PM
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15. My family is hurt by $2.77 gas |
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Your lack of compassion for my suffering is appalling.
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:09 PM
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16. what would you like me to do for you? |
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Edited on Sat Apr-10-10 08:52 PM by yodoobo
wouldn't want you to be appalled.
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:10 PM
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17. Just don't belittle my suffering |
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And you could dial that snarktastic attitude down a notch.
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:51 PM
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Actually I think your itching for an argument.
Still... I know absolutely nothing about you. I have no facts about you to belittle.
We seem to disagree on the power of Presidency but that's ok.
I had no intention (and I believe no ability) to belittle you. But if I did. I apologize.
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Sat Apr-10-10 08:55 PM
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19. You know that I'm suffering from high gas prices but that doesn't seem to concern you |
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Sat Apr-10-10 10:00 PM
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22. I'm not sure why you are taking me to task for the price of gas |
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If only I had I the power to influence it.
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Sun Apr-11-10 12:16 PM
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36. I'm taking you to task for this comment: |
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"But its not going to be pushing the extremes that hurt families like it did during the Bush years."
You clearly don't understand how much my family is hurting from $2.77 gas.
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Sun Apr-11-10 01:01 PM
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37. save it...you gave yourself away |
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Edited on Sun Apr-11-10 01:03 PM by yodoobo
Yes.
50 cents a month from the 2 gallons a month.
Go play your game elsewhere.
Post your address online and I'll mail you 2 quarters.
I'm done with you.
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Sun Apr-11-10 01:36 PM
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38. 2 gallons a month for work |
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Recreation and going out to get food add up
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Sat Apr-10-10 09:02 PM
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21. How....very....compassionate. All heart, you are. |
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:16 PM
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49. Yes. We should rename this place "Compassionate Underground" |
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It's heartwarming isn't it?
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Mon Apr-12-10 08:48 PM
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55. Then they wonder why they don't get all the votes they want, come November. |
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Sun Apr-11-10 06:13 AM
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by the price of gas if they are working normal jobs in the US. How can you get to work if you can't afford to drive? Our public transportation is almost nonexistent, except in major metropolitan areas. Many people in this area drive over 50 miles each way to earn $8 an hour. I still believe the Bush administration allowed big oil to collapse our economy to fill their own pockets. I feel your pain unfortunately I don't ever see the price of gas dropping to a comfortable level for most Americans. The relative cost of working is likely to increase for most of us because of the high unemployment levels. Companies are already hiring people for lower wages because there are hundreds of qualified applicants for every job. I hope there is some intervention that will stop this downward spiral.
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Sun Apr-11-10 06:41 AM
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28. My family uses about 2 gallons of gas every month just getting to and from work |
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At 2.77 that's the price of a pack of cigarettes!
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:28 AM
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32. You Are Very Fortunate |
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those of us who live in remote areas are not so lucky.
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:24 AM
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34. I speculated that the price of gas would go up and chose to live in a central location |
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:12 PM
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48. We would have loved to do that, Unfortunately, housing in our central locations was |
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unaffordable. Add in that my husband's clients are spread over a wide area and not driving is not an option for us. We do live as centrally as we can but it's still at least 60 miles round trip to just about anywhere. But I'm happy for you that you have a situation where it doesn't affect you.
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:08 PM
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47. Yes. And most of us here who live in remote areas were priced out of housing in areas close to work |
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The average in our state has hit $3.05 per gallon this week.
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:14 PM
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8. I predict that Exxon will pay no US taxes this year either |
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on the greatest profits ever.
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Sat Apr-10-10 05:40 PM
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10. If I keep eating dried wasabi green peas, I'm gonna explode with gas |
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:31 AM
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I became addicted to them at the bar in a hotel in Hong Kong. Now that's a bar snack.
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Sat Apr-10-10 07:11 PM
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14. Election season price manipulation? |
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For the previous few elections, we've seen gas prices plunge dramatically just in time for the election in November, only to rise again soon after the election was over. Of course, the commonality was that there were Republicans in the White House at the time.
Now that there's a Democrat in the White House, does that mean we'll see gas prices climb stratospherically high just in time for the election? I wouldn't be surprised...
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:58 PM
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45. No doubt that's a factor. |
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Choke off any signs of recovery by having people divert more of their money into the gas tank which has no stimulative effect on the overall economy at all. Blame the bad economy on Democrats and get the oil boys back in office. Now, that said, if the Democrats don't do something to curtail it they have no one but themselves to blame.
Nothing has been done to rein in the speculators who run the prices up this way every time we have 5 cents in our pockets again and I have heard not one of them mention the phrase, "windfall profit tax."
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Sat Apr-10-10 10:04 PM
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23. How about if people pay the 1918 price for gas? |
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:18 AM
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24. Only if we go back to the average commuting distance for 1918 |
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Don't feel like looking it up but I'm sure it's a lot less than what it is now
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Sun Apr-11-10 01:40 PM
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41. And we get the mass-transit infrastructure back... |
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:13 PM
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42. We can't afford mass-transit |
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It's much cheaper to be gouged by oil companies
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:38 PM
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43. Did you have a point? n/t |
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:04 PM
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46. I think the point was..."the oil company's deserve their profits." |
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That said, I think including the price of transportation in the CPI might be a good idea. Wages and COLA's are often based on the CPI and without including the cost of transportation and housing they can keep blowing smoke up our butts and telling us wages and SS reimbursements are keeping up with inflation.
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Sun Apr-11-10 11:23 PM
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51. The CPI parted ways with the last semblance of reality in 2003(?) when they completely abandoned |
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the baseline. This guarantees that inflation can never climb above 3% or 4% until there is a total collapse and it doesn't matter any longer.
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Sun Apr-11-10 04:30 AM
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25. BREAD the cost of BREAD... |
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is sky high and will continue to go up (study the history of the cost of bread and what that means)...
- fuck gas...
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Sun Apr-11-10 07:10 AM
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29. It goes up every summer |
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Sun Apr-11-10 07:37 AM
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30. Yes, you're a very bad person. |
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Hopefully someone here on DU will kidnap you, tie you up, put a Palin 2008 t-shirt on you & force you to attend a teabagger rally & mingle with the mindless.
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Sun Apr-11-10 08:50 AM
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31. summer coming/gas price rises. psychic, i tell you. nt |
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:48 AM
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33. Are Psychics bad people? |
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Sun Apr-11-10 11:08 AM
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35. i dont do the bad/good thing, lol. and i love psychics. hey, i was impressed |
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Sun Apr-11-10 01:38 PM
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40. no, it makes you omniscient though |
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:54 PM
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44. It always goes up in summer |
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Look at at the price history, there's a very strong annual cycle in addition to the long term trend. So it's not that big of a deal unless the rate of increase significantly exceeds the annual variation.
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Sun Apr-11-10 10:21 PM
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50. It has to. (1) Spring demand, (2) business uptick demand, (3) vacation demand. |
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Should be a steady climb through summer. It will likely recede in September.
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Mon Apr-12-10 12:13 AM
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53. I speculate that every time it looks as if the American public has 2 cents extra in their pockets |
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the oil companies will raise the price to take 4 cents from them and the health insurance companies will take 4 more thus guaranteeing they have made sure they stripped every shred of meat from our bones before they abandon the graveyard of the once great American working and middle classes.
I also speculate we can expect our lawmakers and elected leaders to do absolutely nothing about it.
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