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Dawgs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:18 AM
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Has anyone noticed gas prices lately?
I haven't heard anyone talk about gas prices, yet they sit just above $2.00. This price was unacceptable just a few months ago, but since we had a short jump to $3.00 no one has even mentioned it.

Was this the plan all along? Where is the outcry? Did the oil companies get exactly what they wanted by creating a spike? Did the propoganda work?

It seems to me that the fact it has hung so close to $2.00 should raise some flags. I am the only that has noticed this?
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:21 AM
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1. No you are not the only one to notice it. They always gouge
the price up during the holidays!
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SkipNewarkDE Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:21 AM
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2. They are rising in my area
We are up to around $2.27 a gallon for regular in my area (Delaware & Pennsylvania).
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:22 AM
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3. It's 2.259 here (Madison, WI)
I think most people are just so overwhelmed by all the problems that they are a little numb.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:24 AM
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4. I was just talking about this to someone.
Since they went over $3 a gallon, now you hear people say how "cheap" it is again. Yes, I think it was the plan all along, and unfortunately it seems to have worked.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:27 AM
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8. It is a tried & true methodology
The gasoline companies have used this method with great success since the early seventies.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:24 AM
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5. Everyone is too busy crapping their drawers about NATURAL gas prices
Go broke driving around, or sit at home and shiver.

Helluva choice!
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masshole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:25 AM
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6. prices going up again here
I paid $2.25/gal for 89 octane at a local Citgo last night.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:26 AM
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7. Yes, it was.
n/t
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:28 AM
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9. average of 2.49 in Chicago. Higher in places.
it bounced up a good 30 cents sinvce before x-mas
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:42 AM
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16. Lower In The Southern Edges Of Chicagoland
We're up to a bit under $2.20 most places. I actually saw $2.05 between Shorewood and Plainfield on Monday! But, nobody else was within 9 cents of that.
The Professor
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 02:02 PM
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21. wow prof, I am south of chitown too. 2.39 and 2.46
But, because gas prices have the same relationship to cost, supply, and demand that creationism has to the actual age of the multiverse, it is a lovely, abstract but expensive exercise. Which is why I drive as little as possible.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 02:04 PM
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22. I'm Down In Southern Will County
But, i was in Joliet on Christmas Eve and it seemed the general price was about $2.18, plus or minus a few cents.
The Professor
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:30 AM
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10. Relative Deprevation Theory
Oil psy-ops conducted on us. We'll never see it below 2 bucks again.
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devinsgram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:33 AM
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11. Funny you should mention this,
I have thought that for a long time now. What they do is raise the price so high and then bring it back down to a somewhat better place and then inch it up to where they orginally want it. That way the consumer doen't notice the hike as much. Now it will stay at this price until they decide to hike it up again. They figure the consumer is too stupid to notice. Probably over the summer they'll try it again. In my area, Hershey, it's up to 2.25.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:34 AM
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12. In the Detroit area, they rose 20 cents in 4 hrs. yesterday...
When I left for work, the price was about $2.12 a gallon...
But when I came home for lunch, it was up to $2.33 a gallon.
Oil companies have been playing us for time immemorial. It's been very pronounced since the election of 2000 though, when they sought to install their puppet government (successfully, unfortunately)!

:(
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:34 AM
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13. it was up to about 2.29 just before Christmas
here in S. E. Michigan. Was down to 2.09 Monday night. I imagine it will be back up in the 2.20 for the coming weekend though.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:38 AM
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14. I have thought the exact same thing as well
:tinfoilhat:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:42 AM
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15. Yeah, they went up to $3 a gallon so paying 2-2.20 wouldn't seem so bad
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:43 AM
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17. And as long as they are above $2,
the "average" family sees their wonderful Bush tax cut completely consumed by buying gas.

Neat, huh? Who says conservatives aren't for the transfer of wealth? As long as it's FROM ordinary folks and TO corporations and the wealthy!
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:44 AM
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18. $2.059 in Iowa
That was yesterday afternoon. Glad I filled the tank. I got my gas/elec. bill and it was $350 for December compared to $249 in 2004. That's a bunch for flautulence.
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:45 AM
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19. I paid 2.29 for the "87" grade
Last night.Inching up,now that the holiday shopping spree is over.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:48 AM
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20. I done some work for a fella who had just sold his chain of
Lady's apparel stores, thats how he referred to them anyway. He told us that when he had a product that wasn't moving he would move it to the back and then in a few day bring it back out with an inflated price say of 30% and then mark it down 20% and move all of them and be wishing he'd bought more. He said it never failed.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 02:06 PM
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23. $2.19 in San Diego
Was in LA last week and I saw it for $2.09. San Francisco was around $2.09 too.
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