Posted on 08/14/2005 4:51:26 AM PDT by cloud8
Don't look now, but the next time the arrow on your gas gauge hovers near the ominous letter E, your wallet may have the privilege of making history at the pump.
Gas prices on Martha’s Vineyard topped $3 per gallon this weekend. (Staff photo by Tim Correira)
For the first time in Bay State history, gas prices have soared above the astronomical $3 mark - at gas stations on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
"I think I'll get a moped," said Nantucket resident Edward Hickey, 77, who will shell out $94.50 the next time he fills the 30-gallon tank on his Chevy Tahoe at On Island Gas, the record-busting service station near his Spark Avenue home where a gallon of regular was going for $3.08 as of yesterday.
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That's what you get for driving a gas guzzler, Eddie.
The next time I hear someone say that the war in Iraq is Bush's attempt to get cheap oil, I'm going to nail this picture to their forehead.
There are two reasons that gas prices are so high:
1."Environmentalists"
2. Politicans = taxes
Isn't just ironic as all getout these anti-war hippee, anarchic, protesters hold signs which read: NO BLOOD FOR OIL, yet we find out a huge UN scheme to embezzle funds in the FOOD FOR OIL program.
Liberals are always wrong about their preceptions. They live in a world of rose-colored glasses in a fantasy land of inverse reality.
Aw, that's too bad. All those rich "environmentalists" will have to pay more to fill the tanks on their SUVs. I'm sobbing with sympathy, here.
3. Worldwide demand drives up the price of crude. You can blame the Chinese in part for that.
We're at $2.59 here mid-Michigan. I'm really grateful for my little 5-speed Cougar - it gets close to 30 mpg.
"the astronomical $3 mark"
what a stupid line...I can't stop chuckling
Stop ANWAR! No Blood for Oil! No New Nukes! NIMBY! Vote Democratic!
Schadenfreude :-). Maybe they can run their vehicles on Olive Oil.
The F150 has been all but put out to pasture, I'm driving the Ranger most of the time now.
Our friends up in Canada are paying about a dollar a litre:
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Sort of the yin and yang of life...cheap stuff at Walmart=expensive gasoline at some point....that point is now.
I have been making the same observation for people, too. You can add Sam's Club, Costco, Target, Microcenter Mall, and the like to this list. All that money you saved over the past 10 years will be leaving your pocket as it pours out of the gas pump.
Mr. Hickey, they don't call it Taxachusetts for nothing. Get rid of your tax and spend liberal state legislature and maybe your gas prices will come down some.
My 1966 VW bug 4-speed could get 30 mpg and it wasn't anywhere as aerodynamic as the Cougar and the engine had a compression ratio of ~7:1. Cougar safety, emissions, and performance are much better, but fuel economy hasn't moved in quite a while.
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