Minnesnowtan
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Message Posted: Dec 14, 2011 8:15:59 PM
Obama "inherited" a lousy economy and then proceeded to point it downward and add as much power as possible. Moron.
Vote for the most fiscally responsible person you can find. It is sad how principals of financial responsibility are so very different between private money and public money.
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ConsumerGuy
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2011 12:04:50 AM
Guess no hyperlinks are allowed.
[Edited by: ConsumerGuy at 9/21/2011 12:08:25 AM EST]
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ConsumerGuy
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2011 12:04:10 AM
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oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications
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ConsumerGuy
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Message Posted: Sep 21, 2011 12:03:04 AM
I guess you can't post a long web link. I'll try again.
/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications
/wrgp/mogas_history.html
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ConsumerGuy
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Message Posted: Sep 20, 2011 11:58:04 PM
Throughout the '90s, gas prices fluctuated around $1.00, more or less.
Starting in 1999, gas prices started a steady increase, peaking at around $4.00 in the summer of 2008. Then, there was a dramatic drop in prices from the July peak so that by November 2008, the prices averaged around $2.00. It bottomed out around $1.59 in December.
So, the price of gas peaked in July 2008 after a steady increase in price from 1999 and then dropped to less than half of the peak price in 5 months or almost back to the 1999 level.
Since December of 2008, the price of gas has again steadily climbed to its current average of $3.56.
These prices were obtained from the Department of Energy web site. Here is the link.
/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html
Draw your own conclusions from the facts.
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flourflngr
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Message Posted: Jul 13, 2011 5:31:53 PM
well, given the profit these gas companies make and the number of republicans (ie bush, etc) that are oil men-- I have to believe it is greed-- ever notice how gas prices go down before an election when republicans are in power?????? gee, what a coincidence!
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JDCommuter
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Message Posted: Jun 2, 2011 12:08:01 PM
Gas prices alone wouldn't effect my vote for him. It's just another symptom of an overall issue of Government getting in the way of business. If we could drill in our own country, we'd have abundant oil. We'd probably have to put a tariff on oil from outside of the country through to eliminate our own oil from being sold on the world market. I'm a bit tired of globalism.
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dohnmeiss
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Message Posted: May 21, 2011 8:09:04 PM
I don't think that it would really matter who was president. I did not vote for Obama and won't for him in the next election but in all fairness we need to remember that the prices for gas were high when George W. Bush was in office also. The public should apply more pressure to our politicians to ensure that we receive fair prices from the oil company.
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Imani11
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Message Posted: May 10, 2011 11:56:01 AM
Yeah, it seems like gas prices were lower just a week ago. I've seen regular as high as 4.55
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