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Gas Prices Soar 51 Cents in Just Two Months
CNS News ^ | February 18, 2013 | Julia Seymour

Posted on 02/18/2013 10:03:56 AM PST by george76

Per gallon cost has risen every business day for a month.

Consumers are taking another huge hit in 2013. First, the two percent Social Security tax hike began the year. Now, gas prices are soaring ever closer to $4 a gallon and have jumped 51 cents a gallon since Dec. 20.

According to the Oil Price Information Service, the national average for a gallon of unleaded was $3.21.9 on Dec. 20, 2012. Today, that price is $3.73.0. While there has been a steady increase, prices shot almost 9 cents just over the weekend.

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It took the media some time to catch on to rising gas prices, as "Good Morning America's" Josh Elliot said two weeks after the climb began that "we have just learned that gas prices have skyrocketed."

Those higher pump prices hurt consumers, who were already paying more for gas than in decades. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported recently that the average household spent more on gas last year, as a percentage of income, than it had in 30 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; energy; gas; gasprices; obama; oil
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1 posted on 02/18/2013 10:04:03 AM PST by george76
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2 posted on 02/18/2013 10:08:52 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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He did say that he would have “more flexibility” after re-election...


3 posted on 02/18/2013 10:09:48 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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$3.89.9 at the local EXXON ... SW Pennsyltucky


4 posted on 02/18/2013 10:10:32 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: faithhopecharity

Yeah’n don’t forget the civilian army equally armed and equipped


5 posted on 02/18/2013 10:12:19 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: george76

It’s just market forces, so just shut up and pay the market price if you want to get between point A and B.


6 posted on 02/18/2013 10:16:39 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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I will be suprised if we are not paying around $8 per gallon within the next four years. Even that may not be up to the level that Obama’s lackies would liketo see.


7 posted on 02/18/2013 10:17:28 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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Gee, I wonder how the libtards will try and force all the free independent people to leave the burbs and rural areas, to move to the cesspool cities and worship government?


8 posted on 02/18/2013 10:21:56 AM PST by ZX12R
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I don’t think it can get that high without all out collapse. I’m thinking 5.00 to 6.00 is tops.


9 posted on 02/18/2013 10:22:38 AM PST by CommieCutter
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To: factoryrat

I’m sire it has nothing to do with taxes or EPA regulations...

Nothing at all...

Do i really need the sarcasm tag?


10 posted on 02/18/2013 10:25:13 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: factoryrat

I’m sure it has nothing to do with taxes or EPA regulations...

Nothing at all...

Do i really need the sarcasm tag?


11 posted on 02/18/2013 10:25:54 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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Weird. Posted once. Refreshed. Nothing there. Went back, posted again... Two posts.

Delay on the servers again?


12 posted on 02/18/2013 10:27:04 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: factoryrat

A market that’s goes down then up 40% in two months is a market that is severely stressed. I’ve seen no explanation on either the supply or demand side that can explain this enormous volatility.


13 posted on 02/18/2013 10:32:36 AM PST by DManA
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Anybody else notice that there has been NO handwringing, NO plaintive wailing from the MSM this time on >$4 gas?

None. It’s no big deal now, you know, because the economy is doing so much bettter, people can afford it.


14 posted on 02/18/2013 10:33:18 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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God has hardened the hearts of the American People as He hardened

the heart of Pharaoh so He can punish them for their
evil deed in refusing to reject this Evil Kenyan.

Gas prices are just one of the New Plagues.


15 posted on 02/18/2013 10:35:06 AM PST by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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God has hardened the hearts of the American People as He hardened

the heart of Pharaoh so He can punish them for their
evil deed in refusing to reject this Evil Kenyan.

Gas prices are just one of the New Plagues.


16 posted on 02/18/2013 10:35:12 AM PST by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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To: knarf

yeah, and he’s installed several rabidly hostile Islamofascist regimes, too, including his MuslimBrother pals in Egypt (you know, the ones that have wanted to kill Christians and Jews and take over the world since 1928, and who were illegal before O forced Mubarak to allow them to surface in public and participate in O’s big FIRST SPEECH to the People AS AMERICA’s President, his big speech in Cairo to the Muslim world....

(who ever said he is incompetent in office?!? He is accomplishing many of the things, to the letter, that he said he wanted to see happen...it is time to give him credit for what he accomplishes...)


17 posted on 02/18/2013 10:36:39 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Dead Corpse

Thousands of people protested washington about “climate change”. They were seriously opposed to the US being self sufficient. Give them what they want, and let them choke on it. When they freeze to death in the dark, I wouldn’t even give them the courtesy of a proper burial. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. I blame them for falling for it, and I blame us for not putting a stop to it.


18 posted on 02/18/2013 10:37:46 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Other terms not seen in the MSM since 09:

McJobs
Recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street
Homeless problem


19 posted on 02/18/2013 10:38:53 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Dead Corpse
the servers again?

Bigtime....this place is as broken as it was during the pre-election.

20 posted on 02/18/2013 10:41:15 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Piffle....)
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