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Gas spike hits drivers (Obama's fault)
CNN Money ^ | 9/12/2012 | Chris Isidore

Posted on 09/12/2012 4:06:06 PM PDT by tobyhill

As the summer driving season comes to an end, motorists who were hoping gas prices would fall are instead getting hit with a big jump, especially in the Northeast.

The average price of a gallon of regular gas increased 1.5 cents nationally for the second straight day, taking it to $3.86 in AAA's latest reading Wednesday. The back-to-back price moves follow what had been a lull in gas price activity after an August run-up in prices caused by Gulf Coast refinery disruptions as Hurricane Isaac approached.

Prices had been expected to retreat quickly once the Gulf region's facilities came back online. But Tom Kloza, chief analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, said the retreat in prices following the storm is being delayed because Isaac hit so close to Sept. 15.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; drillheredrillnow; gasprices; obama
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1 posted on 09/12/2012 4:06:10 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Outside Chicago it’s 4.29/gal


2 posted on 09/12/2012 4:08:27 PM PDT by Pit1 (Obeeee is useless.)
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To: tobyhill

Still a modest $3.68.9 in Hampton Roads, VA.


3 posted on 09/12/2012 4:10:14 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: tobyhill
The EPA blends, ethanol and oil regulations boost the prices. Obama thinks we need European prices ($8-$9/gal)which would really help the economy. Especially in less dense places like Wyoming.

/sarc

4 posted on 09/12/2012 4:12:27 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden: "HOPE and CHAINS for all 57 states".)
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To: tobyhill

3.99 a gallon in Minneapolis...

I just bought a little 4 banger to supplement my 3/4 ton van.

100 bucks every day or two in the tank hurts to much to continue.

Little car cost me 4 tanks of gas. should pay for it’s self in no time.


5 posted on 09/12/2012 4:12:52 PM PDT by cableguymn
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Our houses are worth less, our retirements are worth less, we pay more at the pumps.......we are less safe...the country is almost bankrupt


6 posted on 09/12/2012 4:13:03 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: tobyhill

Obama doesn’t care, he never has to pay for gas or his million dollar vacations.


7 posted on 09/12/2012 4:14:47 PM PDT by Ryan_Rubio_2016
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To: FreedBird

And not only is Obama still in the white house.. There is enough people willing to vote for him to send him back!


8 posted on 09/12/2012 4:16:44 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: tobyhill
gas went up here this morning from $4.09 to $4.15
9 posted on 09/12/2012 4:18:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: cableguymn

The uninformed voters will re-elect a Obama. The media manipulates a bunch of dummies.


10 posted on 09/12/2012 4:20:02 PM PDT by FreedBird
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>> we are less safe...the country is almost bankrupt...

Yeah, but we’re green, gender-interchangeable, and diverse!

(in fact, da longer Barky has the helm, diverse it gets.)


11 posted on 09/12/2012 4:21:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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This is Affirmative Action President at work. He is Simon Says with the country and media. Most people follow blindly without a brain.


12 posted on 09/12/2012 4:26:07 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: luvbach1

Come on down to Texas. Paid “just” $3.51.9 in Houston suburbs. Generally about a dime higher in the city though.


13 posted on 09/12/2012 4:26:51 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: FreedBird

>> Most people follow blindly without a brain.

Chin up! Some do; but I respectfully submit that MOST do NOT.

The Kenyan’s going DOWN in November.


14 posted on 09/12/2012 4:30:56 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: Nervous Tick

I pray you are right. Dick Morris agrees with you!


15 posted on 09/12/2012 4:32:24 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: tobyhill

I want it to be $8 or more per gallon the week before election day, just to drive the point home.


16 posted on 09/12/2012 4:33:39 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Gas was $1.49 in midstate PA on the day when the Kenyan raised his paw to steal the oath of office.

$3.95 today, up TWENTY-THREE PER CENT from the year’s low of $3.19 on July 1.


17 posted on 09/12/2012 4:42:47 PM PDT by lightman (Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
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To: Grams A
Come on down to Texas. Paid “just” $3.51.9 in Houston suburbs.

$3.49 in Hill Country today.

18 posted on 09/12/2012 4:48:33 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: tobyhill

I live near the coast in Washington state. Mid grade has been over $4.20 for several weeks. At one place I saw it at $4.50.

We love traveling around our country and have done so for more than 40 years. I now tow an Airstream trailer.

It is common for us to spend as much as 5k+ on our 30 day vacation. This year, for the first time, we stayed home. Instead, we are working on our property, out on our boat fishing and spending far less money. Oh, I have been killing the Coho Salmon run. ;>)

Thanks to Obama and his filthy democrats, another 5k+ has been kept out of our economy this summer.

Obama has got to go.....


19 posted on 09/12/2012 4:50:14 PM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: tobyhill
here in Somerset PA. where flight #93 occurred in a Field in Shanksville, PA. gas is $3.90 and even $3.94 at some stations...never can this county support these prices..this County is ‘welfare’ and retired..it will totally destroy our lives..

we must drive many miles to grocery shop, doctor apps. even to attend church..forget our volunteering any longer...miles add up to empty tanks...sad..really sad...never have I seen the economy so bad. even under Carter..

Please vote Obama out of power...

20 posted on 09/12/2012 4:57:36 PM PDT by haircutter
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