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Summertime shocker: Gas could hit $3 a gallon
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 1/16/04 | Lucio Guerrero

Posted on 01/16/2004 6:19:44 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

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1 posted on 01/16/2004 6:19:45 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Americans don't care. Or why would they keep buying so many gas guzzlers?
2 posted on 01/16/2004 6:20:53 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: newgeezer
I love expensive gas, ping.
3 posted on 01/16/2004 6:21:08 AM PST by biblewonk (I must try to answer all bible questions.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I may carpool more but other than that I won't change a thing.
4 posted on 01/16/2004 6:22:05 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Bush and Co. are quickly convincing me that the Constitution Party is our only hope.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Keeping the Saudis happy....dont want them cashing in those bonds just yet....
5 posted on 01/16/2004 6:22:05 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I don't think this would be too shocking. If you don't like it, then encourage your Congressman to pass the President's energy plan.
6 posted on 01/16/2004 6:23:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Time to start drilling the ANWR
7 posted on 01/16/2004 6:24:10 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Brilliant
Or drive a fuel-efficient car.
8 posted on 01/16/2004 6:24:35 AM PST by mewzilla
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$3.00 a gallon when making $40 an hour is not as tough as $1.05 a gallon when making $5.00 an hour 20-25 years ago... U.S. consumers will adapt...
9 posted on 01/16/2004 6:24:53 AM PST by dakine
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Got my V8 just in time; before they outlaw them.
10 posted on 01/16/2004 6:26:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mullahs swinging from lamp posts....)
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To: joesnuffy
Perhaps ANWR drilling will pass when the wallet drilling commences.
11 posted on 01/16/2004 6:26:42 AM PST by Ingtar (Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between ." -- Kosh)
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To: Brilliant
At $3.00 per gallon, it would still be cheaper, in relative terms than when I got first started driving (1979).
12 posted on 01/16/2004 6:26:52 AM PST by LN2Campy
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It ain't gonna happen! The public outcry and pressure will mitigate the price. The government will open the strategic reserve. The President does want to be reelected...

Mike

13 posted on 01/16/2004 6:27:48 AM PST by MichaelP
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To: joesnuffy
And the Gulf.
14 posted on 01/16/2004 6:28:23 AM PST by AAABEST
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To: dakine
Sorry, I accidentially hit private message with the following post

"Ever notice how when gas prices to up, so does food and all other consumer goods. Also, with gas that high in the Summer looks like tourism could take another hit.

What ever happened to we would rebuild Iraq using their oil money, not our own billions plus, paying higher gas prices?"

15 posted on 01/16/2004 6:28:45 AM PST by PersonalLiberties (Between Life and the Pursuit of Happiness you Need Liberty)
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To: dakine
Just as long as they don't whine. As for the folks who can least afford it, them I have sympathy for. Supply and demand works against them. Pity more people don't keep that in mind. I was looking at a Toyota Prius recently. Neat car, but even at $20,000 the folks who might be most inclined to buy a fuel-efficent car would have a tough time affording it. Lower income folks really get hit in the wallet with high fuel prices.
16 posted on 01/16/2004 6:29:13 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: LN2Campy
At $3.00 per gallon, it would still be cheaper, in relative terms than when I got first started driving (1979).

Oh, man, now you're in trouble. You'd better not say that in a free market price rises with demand, or you're toast!

17 posted on 01/16/2004 6:29:35 AM PST by Land of the Free 04
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To: biblewonk
I love expensive gas

It'll be too bleepin bad if the price of big, used SUVs plummets the way muscle cars did in the Seventies. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Of course, the difference is, muscle cars really were cool. :-) I can't foresee a day when car shows are brimming with "classic" SUVs. Blecccch.

18 posted on 01/16/2004 6:29:48 AM PST by newgeezer ("...until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.")
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Build More Refineries
19 posted on 01/16/2004 6:31:00 AM PST by Petronski (I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is another zinger for the Gore wing of the environmental-wacko set.

Oh sure, high gas prices will make people conserve and drive less, but we want lower gas prices too.

It's like the wind farm issue.

Wind power is good but it is bad........blame it on Bush.......and whatever you do..........

don't build a wind farm in my front yard.

20 posted on 01/16/2004 6:32:09 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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