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Gas Drops Below $1.50 in Some Areas, and We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet
NBC News ^ | FEB 2 2016 | MARTHA C. WHITE

Posted on 02/02/2016 7:28:32 AM PST by thackney

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To: thackney

It is taking forever to fall here in New Jersey

The liberals want to tax gas more because it is “cheap” and I have a feeling the fueling stations colluded to keep it from dropping off like it should. Keep the profit themselves so the state doesn’t step in a steal it with a tax.


21 posted on 02/02/2016 7:42:15 AM PST by arl295
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To: wally_bert

I took a look at that. Really cool!


22 posted on 02/02/2016 7:45:48 AM PST by refermech
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To: thackney

West side of Missouri- $1.37


23 posted on 02/02/2016 7:49:12 AM PST by taterjay
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To: thackney

Still 2.59 or so in so Cal.


24 posted on 02/02/2016 7:52:49 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: thackney

$1.33 in Oklahoma City.


25 posted on 02/02/2016 7:54:32 AM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: thackney

Assorted levels of government are already seeing the drop in prices as a good opportunity to sneak in some more taxes. In Iowa they implemented a ten cents per gallon tax saying “the people won’t feel it” with the lower prices. The tax is supposedly for “roads and bridges” but they don’t explain what happened to the previous roads and bridges tax money. Why can’t the swine let us keep the extra money for a change so we can get ahead!?!


26 posted on 02/02/2016 7:55:03 AM PST by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

You can thank the “Global Warming Solutions Act” and a host of other taxes and reasons for that. Namely, CARB. >spit!


27 posted on 02/02/2016 7:55:05 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: thackney; All

I recall when I predicted that gas would come back below $2 a gallon (I think it was in 2010), I was widely pooh-poohed as pollyannish.

Many on freerepublic loudly proclaimed that gas would never fall below $3 a gallon, ever again.

Because conspiracies were keeping the price high...

There is a conspiracy of course. It is out in the open and called OPEC. It appears to be falling apart, and would do so a lot sooner if we had a president that worked for America instead of against the country.


28 posted on 02/02/2016 7:55:37 AM PST by marktwain
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To: thackney

You have to remember that gas prices were in the $1.40’s when Ubanga came into office...


29 posted on 02/02/2016 7:57:11 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: thackney

Within a mile of Lear Corporation’s HQ in Southfield, MI, a CITGO station has Regular no-lead for $1.42 or less. Is it ironic or just uncanny that at the Lear complex there, their R & D facility (Hybrid Automotive Electrical Systems) is trying to develop green technologies to help combat global warming, climate change, and to save the planet from fossil fuels and carbon emissions?


30 posted on 02/02/2016 7:59:06 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: kjam22

Wow, $1.37 is high. I just looked and now $1.32. Down 6 cents on the futures.


31 posted on 02/02/2016 8:19:13 AM PST by taterjay
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To: thackney
$1.25 reported in several Oklahoma stations

Now that link has one station at $1.24.

LOL

Brings to mind the gas wars that went on for a couple of years in NE Oklahoma around 1971-72. I recall buying gas between $0.15 and $0.19 per gallon. I drove a 1965 Olds 98 -- a big-time gas gussler.
32 posted on 02/02/2016 8:33:59 AM PST by TomGuy
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$1.33 down here in the Ozarks. Love filling up my /p/u for less than $30. Instead of more than $75!!!


33 posted on 02/02/2016 8:35:12 AM PST by donozark (There is no murder in paradise.)
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To: Phillyred
we have some real cars made

And politicians are looking for ways to increase gasoline taxes -- for infrastructure, better roads and highways, reinforcing old bridges, for the children, of course.
34 posted on 02/02/2016 8:37:16 AM PST by TomGuy
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$0.19 1971 = $1.11 2015

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm


35 posted on 02/02/2016 8:40:31 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

But in the months/years previous, it had steadly risen. The peak under GWBush was $4.09/gal in July 2008.

When Bush entered office in 2001, it was $1.47/gal.
36 posted on 02/02/2016 8:42:58 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: donozark
With the price of gasoline and diesel falling legislators start looking at higher taxes for both.

Missouri Republicans have a veto proof Senate and House

So Republican Senators want to talk about raising the tax on diesel fuel by 3.5 cents a gallon and on all other fuels by 1.5 cents per gallon.

They are hopping automobile drivers will say 1.5 cents per gal is not that much.

The hidden tax of 3.5 cents per gallon on fuel used by 18 wheelers and mid sized delivery trucks does not attract that much attention because the legislators say only trucks pay it.

18 wheelers and mid sized delivery trucks haul a huge percentage of the products we use everyday.

They even haul the gasoline we burn in our cars.

37 posted on 02/02/2016 9:06:52 AM PST by TYVets
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To: refermech

I’d have to learn how to ride a dirt bike.


38 posted on 02/02/2016 9:17:50 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Phillyred

Look for more urban children to be named “Escalade”!


39 posted on 02/02/2016 12:26:09 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: marktwain
"...I was widely pooh-poohed as pollyannish...."

Not me. I called you "Obviously high on pot".

And look at you now, correct the whole time!

Looking forward to more of your not-so-crazy predictions.

40 posted on 02/02/2016 12:29:48 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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