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Vanity: Gas Prices
March 10, 2003 | don-o

Posted on 03/10/2005 2:26:34 PM PST by don-o

Johnson City, Tennessee

Regular - $1.96

Premium (or as we old timers call it - High test) - $2.04


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To: don-o

I dont know, I moved here a month ago from L.A. where the prices are sure to be about 2.45 right now.


21 posted on 03/10/2005 2:38:23 PM PST by SwankyC (1st Bn 11th Marines Semper Fi)
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To: don-o

Georgia gas prices are in the 1.79 - 2.09 range, depending on how close you are to the interstate and competing gas stations. In rural, small towns it is around 1.97


22 posted on 03/10/2005 2:38:38 PM PST by cynblogger
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To: don-o

I must say that these gas prices really eat into our budget. Me, whose father is in the oil business, have thought about getting a hybrid car or downgrading to a smaller car with better mileage. But shhh! don't tell my dad.


23 posted on 03/10/2005 2:39:29 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Kind of points out that even at a couple bucks a gallon, gasoline is a bargain. I suppose if I had to drive an hour to and from work each day I would care about the price. But as it stands right now, I don't even check the price. Every two weeks I fill up my car and get a can of chew and a pack of smokes. Price varies from around $28 to $35 dollars. Seven bucks difference just doesn't upset me much.


24 posted on 03/10/2005 2:40:04 PM PST by shempy (EABOF)
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To: don-o

$2.12 for regular unleaded out here in Addison, MI [South East part of the state]

If we could move the so called law makers to lower the fuel taxes it would help a lot. Why don't we freep them, about this!


25 posted on 03/10/2005 2:42:42 PM PST by TMSuchman (2nd Generation U.S. MARINE and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: don-o

Milwaukee, Wisconsin $2.19 Regular AND I think some of the stations are jiggering their pumps. My 16 gallon tank seems to be gulping 17 1/2 gallons at certain stations all of a sudden. I've never put in more than 15 3/4 gal in all the time I've owned the car. My husband and I (we both drive the same model car) have had this happen 3 times in the last month.


26 posted on 03/10/2005 2:45:14 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: don-o

RENO

$2.17

$2.27

$2.37

Bike riding weather, though (;^)


27 posted on 03/10/2005 2:46:00 PM PST by paradoxical
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To: shempy

I do drive an hour each way. Gas prices are an issue but not the top of my list.


28 posted on 03/10/2005 2:47:32 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: don-o
Pittsburgh, PA (SE suburbs)

Regular as low as $1.95 as high as $2.03

Hi-test starting at $2.05 up to $2.15

most are at $1.99/$2.09

29 posted on 03/10/2005 2:48:05 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT- B.F.)
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To: infidel29
America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT

Isn't that De Tocqueville

30 posted on 03/10/2005 2:54:02 PM PST by FoxPro (jroehl2@yahoo.com)
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To: don-o
Are these at or above the highest prices ever?

Not if adjusted for inflation. I remember reading an FR post a few months ago that tracked historical prices for gasoline in constant dollars. If I recall correctly, the highest inflation-adjusted price was in the early 1950s.

31 posted on 03/10/2005 2:58:56 PM PST by chimera
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To: don-o
"Premium (or as we old timers call it - High test"

Do you still gas up at Fina Stations 'cause it has Flash?

Fantastic.

32 posted on 03/10/2005 3:02:51 PM PST by Deguello
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Miller Lite $4.85 a gallon.
Wild Turkey 101 $100 a gallon.
BP regular $1.93 a gallon

We're at $1.98 in central OH for unleaded regular gasoline. Sure, it's a pain to pay more for something, but some perspective is in order, as you provided, and also listed below:

$6.50/gallon for designer water with a French-sounding name
$5/gallon store-brand orange juice
$3/gallon store-brand milk
$9.50/gallon cheap wine (the kind you can buy by the gallon)
$650/gallon decent champagne

33 posted on 03/10/2005 3:09:10 PM PST by chimera
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To: FoxPro
I took the quote from "The Federalist Patriot" newsletter I get, they attributed it to Ben Franklin. You're the second person to question it though, so they may be wrong. If they are I'll change the credit, but I can't find any verification one way or the other. I may just change the tagline and be done with it:) Some ideas...

"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." --Benjamin Franklin

"It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world." --Theodore Roosevelt

"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." --John Stuart Mill

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." --Henry Clay

34 posted on 03/10/2005 3:21:42 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT- B.F.)
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To: infidel29

I think I'm liking the Teddy Roosevelt quote.


35 posted on 03/10/2005 3:27:07 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT- B.F.)
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To: don-o
Silverdale, WA @ Costco:

87 octane: $189.9

92 Octane: $209.9

36 posted on 03/10/2005 3:28:22 PM PST by RetiredArmy (America will NEVER be free as long as we have Democrats.)
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To: don-o
Sunnyvale, CA

$2.19-2.39 87 octane

$2.29-2.49 91 octane
37 posted on 03/10/2005 3:41:58 PM PST by roylene
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To: don-o

Chicagoland is $2.09 - $2.19 for 87 octane. Didn't we fight two wars for oil or did I miss that memo?


38 posted on 03/10/2005 3:46:20 PM PST by rudypoot
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To: chimera

-------Sure, it's a pain to pay more for something, but some perspective is in order, as you provided, and also listed below:

$6.50/gallon for designer water with a French-sounding name
$5/gallon store-brand orange juice
$3/gallon store-brand milk
$9.50/gallon cheap wine (the kind you can buy by the gallon)
$650/gallon decent champagne




I will consider that in perspective.........when it's necessary for me to buy 20 gallons of milk each week.


39 posted on 03/10/2005 3:52:17 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's.....you weren't really there.)
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To: infidel29
Actually, it may be a quote that cant be attributed to anybody.
40 posted on 03/10/2005 3:55:34 PM PST by FoxPro (jroehl2@yahoo.com)
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