Posted on 09/11/2006 12:14:59 PM PDT by kellynla
(CNN) -- Gasoline prices plunged more than 21 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to a national average of $2.66 amid an abundant supply of fuel at service stations, a national survey said Sunday.
Lower demand for gas with the end of the summer driving season and a drop in crude oil prices combined to send prices downward across the United States, according to Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the "Lundberg Survey."
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Lundberg, whose survey tallies prices every two to three weeks at about 5,000 gas stations in all 50 states, said gas prices were "punctured."
The average price of a gallon of gas has fallen nearly 37 cents a gallon in the last four weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey taken on Sept. 8.
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YEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH
$2.21 in Indianapolis, IN
283.9 Reno
2.11 in Ohio today
Hell yes!!!...I personally did it!!!...I now ride 20 miles each way to work on my bike...everyone should do it. The only thing was I got hit by a semi on I-40 and now write you this from my hospital bed...Nurse!...could I please have another straw?
It is all Presidents Bushs
fault.....
It's funny, a lot of liberals believe that there is a conspiracy by the oil companies to lower gas prices before the election and then jack them up right after. Shows the igonorance of supply/demand economics.
$2.91 on Cape Cod this weekend.
$2.37 distant Atlanta suburbs
Hey, Howie Dean, I paid $2.41 a gallon for high test in Gainesville, VA this past Saturday!
Lower gas prices! Women and minorities hardest hit!
$2.17 Houston ... 11:45 AM today
$0.00 from my neighbors gas tank last night at 2:00 a.m.
Only got four gallons though...
Just kidding...
$2.49 in Nashville, TN yesterday.
"Still $2.93 here in Idaho"
you need this link. LOL
http://www.idahogasprices.com
Between that and DIEBOLD, the 'Pubbies are a lock this Fall!
New tanks are hard to get a siphon on.
Don't ask me how I know ....
~ 2.98 in Lewiston ID...
3.04 in Pullman WA
What a joke!
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