Gas prices and foods/goods prices: Is gas driving the economy into the ground?

live love laugh

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:09 PM
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Gas prices and foods/goods prices: Is gas driving the economy into the ground?

I was in KMart buying cleaning items and general household stuff and everything seems higher. The detergent was about $2 more, bathroom tissue higher than I remember. At the grocery store, there was an $18 steak turning brown. Not to mention both places looked like ghost towns. I shop in the evening at about 6 or 7 pm so maybe it was the time of day. I think that gas prices have a lot to do with this. I don't think America can sustain $4 gas prices anytime soon. The economy will bottom out.

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kestrel91316

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:16 PM
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1. Oh, things can get a hell of a lot worse. And they will......

Thanks to GWB, who has wasted years and $$$ and oil, rather than targeting dependence on fossil fuels as the greatest threat EVER to the US, which it is, IMHO.

He's still chasing Osama instead of funding alternatives. What a moran.

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Bluzmann57

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:30 PM
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2. Apparently, he isn't really chasing Bin Laden either

n/t

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Double T

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:32 PM
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3. Fuel costs are a good 'excuse' but I believe the NOTICEABLY...........

higher prices that continue to escalate are purely a HUGE money grab by corporate america. The end of the bushco/rethug enabled economic corporate free-for-all is rapidly heading for the brick wall at 120 mph and the brakes have failed. The corporations are grabbing for the last time before the inevitable crash.

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gravity

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:34 PM
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4. It's hurting the economy

but not to the point of bottoming out.

BTW, KMart always looks like a ghost town since Walmart moved into the neighborhood

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Captain Angry

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:39 PM
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5. Notice how it works so well...

Gas prices are high! We're raising costs to compensate.

Gas prices fall. <crickets... chirp chirp>

Gas prices are high! We're raising costs to compensate.

Gas prices fall. <crickets... chirp chirp>

Gas prices are high! We're raising costs to compensate.

The price of a soda at McDonald's has nearly doubled in the last couple of years. How much has it gone up at the grocery store? Not a fraction of that.

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Rydz777

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:48 PM
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6. Meanwhile, inside the White House

David Brooks on the Lehrer Newshour tonight said a White House source told him that "Bush feels liberated by his unpopularity." Nothing left to lose, so he doesn't give a .... anymore. You fill in the appropriate four letter word (and remember Bush is a four letter word.)

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live love laugh

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:55 PM
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7. Oh B--h! That's scarey.

:scared:

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JANdad

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Fri Jun-01-07 08:56 PM
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8. Un-Fucking-Believable

Is there a link to this? If so this would make a great thread on it's own. GWB: Well shit ma, nobody likes me now, so now I'll show 'em

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rasputin1952

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Fri Jun-01-07 09:59 PM
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9. ..."Is gas driving the economy into the ground?"...

Not nearly as fast as this damn war and the other policies of this administration...:eyes:

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