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Gas Prices Soar 51 Cents in Just Two Months
CNS News ^ | February 18, 2013 | Julia Seymour

Posted on 02/18/2013 10:03:56 AM PST by george76

Per gallon cost has risen every business day for a month.

Consumers are taking another huge hit in 2013. First, the two percent Social Security tax hike began the year. Now, gas prices are soaring ever closer to $4 a gallon and have jumped 51 cents a gallon since Dec. 20.

According to the Oil Price Information Service, the national average for a gallon of unleaded was $3.21.9 on Dec. 20, 2012. Today, that price is $3.73.0. While there has been a steady increase, prices shot almost 9 cents just over the weekend.

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It took the media some time to catch on to rising gas prices, as "Good Morning America's" Josh Elliot said two weeks after the climb began that "we have just learned that gas prices have skyrocketed."

Those higher pump prices hurt consumers, who were already paying more for gas than in decades. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported recently that the average household spent more on gas last year, as a percentage of income, than it had in 30 years.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; energy; gas; gasprices; obama; oil
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Anybody else notice that there has been NO handwringing, NO plaintive wailing from the MSM this time on >$4 gas?

I still had cable back when Bush was president. The local newscasts used to lead their nightly broadcasts with reporters standing at gas stations, showing the price per gallon and interviewing the poor motorists.

Since 2009 those stories are in the same filing cabinet with stories about the homeless.
21 posted on 02/18/2013 10:43:56 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: factoryrat
It’s just market forces, so just shut up and pay the market price if you want to get between point A and B.

Market forces influenced by government regulations and enviro-fascist lawsuits which make refining gasoline an expensive endeavor. I see no specific conspiracy to raise gas prices but I do see policy level decisions that conspire to raise prices. Further, when gas was close to $4 bucks a gallon during the booming Bush years I had to listen to "pain at the pump" stories every night on the local news.

22 posted on 02/18/2013 10:44:51 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: george76

Time to send The Stain a “Thank You” card?


23 posted on 02/18/2013 10:45:09 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: ErnBatavia
Man... Was that an ironic post or what!!!

I'm sorry. I will never tempt fate like that again...

24 posted on 02/21/2013 2:14:44 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: george76

Nonsense. The gas price at my local station in PG County MD January 26 was $3.24.9/gal. Yesterday is was $3.89.9. that works out to $0.65 in less than four weeks.


25 posted on 02/21/2013 2:33:21 PM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: crusher

Here’s all I did to boost my mpg (helps boost power too)

K&N air filter (they guar a couple mpg)
Insulated air intake (outside air is cooler than under-hood air, thus denser with O2)
Low restriction exhaust
50psi low profile tires
Mobil 1 oil
Strut tower bar increases handling
Manual trans (+10%)
Leave backseats out

Believe it or not, this PT Cruiser can burn the tires off. And handles very well. Gets 32mpg on highway and high 20s around town. Exceptional for a PT Cruiser. And very fun to drive.


26 posted on 02/21/2013 2:42:33 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Zombies Eat Brains. Half of FL is safe.)
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To: bicyclerepair

The K&N extracts a price in increased engine wear due to more particulates getting past the filter.


27 posted on 02/21/2013 3:08:20 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: george76

That d... Bush....he’s been out of office for more than four years, and he’s still manipulating the gas prices for his oil buddies. It’s an outrage. (snicker)


28 posted on 02/21/2013 4:34:56 PM PST by driftless2
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To: george76
So what's their excuse this time around for high gas prices ? what ? the oil market is under a shortage so therefore the high demand reflects the realities of the high prices ?
Yeah we have heard that one before however the USA at this current time is starting to emerge as a net world oil exporter.
Something really fishy with the smell of bull dung is going on.
29 posted on 02/21/2013 8:41:19 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: bicyclerepair
Leave rear seats out ( front passenger seat if not needed 50 pounds right there ), carpet, door panels, back window deck, inner plastic fender well rain guards , hood sound insulator, trunk carpet, head liner.
That could reduce at least 100 pound right there alone.

30 posted on 02/21/2013 8:48:40 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: bicyclerepair
What I don't understand is why they don't make plastic hoods or truck lids for cars, unless they do that already.
I know they make plastic fenders for cars.
One thing that some people can do is reduce the weight of the engine by trying to see if their engine can be retro fitted with aluminium cylinder heads.
That there alone can reduce at least 50 to 75 pounds of weight.
31 posted on 02/21/2013 8:55:46 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: bicyclerepair

A front end alignment also helps in fuel economy because if the wheels are out of alignment there is friction from the tires.


32 posted on 02/21/2013 8:59:10 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

I remember in 2005, when gas prices were spiking, all my Lib/Prog neighbors were spouting that tired, old MSM-fed drivel about GWB intentionally keeping fuel prices high “to enrich his oil buddies.” Now, just eight years later, these same retard neighbors are absolutely convinced that a US president’s policies can have *no* influence whatsoever on the price of “global commodities.”

I swear these people are robots whose minds can be erased and reprogrammed at will. They don’t even remember claiming GWB manipulated fuel prices!!!


33 posted on 02/21/2013 9:01:54 PM PST by kevao (.)
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To: kevao
Yup and that's why it's a waste of time trying to argue with these people.
I also noticed that those people who voted for Obie have the same arrogance collectively.
Same selfcenterness, same know it all attitudes, same " I am more superior than you " attitude, same " I can do no wrong " attitudes.
34 posted on 02/21/2013 9:12:58 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist; kevao

35 posted on 02/22/2013 5:57:01 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: george76; DManA
Don't think that rising gas prices, and their effect on the economy, isn't part of this...


36 posted on 02/22/2013 6:01:23 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: george76

Josh Elliot said two weeks after the climb began that “we have just learned that gas prices have skyrocketed.”

When you live in a multimillion dollar apartment in Manhattan and are ferried around by a limousine, how would you have a clue about the price of gas unless your chauffeur decided to mention it to you? The elites living in big metropolitan areas don’t fill up their cars and many of them don’t own cars.


37 posted on 02/22/2013 3:32:08 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: factoryrat

But remember, gas is a lot higher in Europe. sarcasm?

The liberal idiots who voted for obama will pay $100 to fill their tanks then say “It only cost $50 to fill my tank today.” They simply refuse to see what’s right in front of them.

And when their “nana” is refused treatment and allowed to die they’ll actually join the chorus and say “She had a good life.” And when they themselves reach 70 they’ll die with a dumb look on their face.


38 posted on 02/22/2013 5:03:05 PM PST by Terry Mross (How long before America is gone?)
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To: factoryrat

Market price? It would help if we had a President who didn’t consider himself King and keep the Keystone pipeline from being built. BUILD IT ANYWAY, DAMNIT!


39 posted on 02/22/2013 5:11:11 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: george76
Any time someone bitches to you about gas prices, just put on your best deadpan and reply,

"Well ya know, we're never gonna see gas prices go down until we get Bush and his oil bidness cronies out of the White House".

Never fails to either piss em off or get a rueful laugh.

40 posted on 02/22/2013 5:31:14 PM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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