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$3.01.

By Judd Legum on Jul 23rd, 2006 at 5:51 pm

$3.01.

Nationwide average for a gallon of regular gasoline, an all-time record.



90 Responses to “$3.01.”

  1. Time Capsule says:

    How much was a gallon of petrol just as Bush came to office ???
    can anyone tell me please


  2. Time Capsule says:

    my reason for asking is , because when Bush came into power the Uk was 80p a litre and now its 97p a litre

    How much more Has your petrol costs gone up in the same length of time ???


  3. Briseadh na Faire says:

    TC –

    The U.S. retail price of regular gasoline reached an estimated average of $1.52 per gallon in March 2000.

    http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/special/summogas.html


  4. Time Capsule says:

    Now I understand exactly , Fuel has doubled in price since bush then ……thanks


  5. Zooey says:

    Briseadh na Faire,

    Ah, how I long for those days — no GWB, and less expensive gas…


  6. Jason M. Hendler says:

    Time to move over to fuel cells …


  7. LeisureGuy says:

    Very glad we have a Prius—and the next-generation Prius, due out in 2008, will get 100 mpg. This vehicle, at 3,124 mpg, is even better. Or go the all-electric sports car route.


  8. Briseadh na Faire says:

    TC –

    By contrast, the average annual wage increase:
    2000 – 32,154
    2004 – 35,648 (last year for data available from http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html)

    Roughly a 2.5% gain per year, so, projected to 2006 would be about a 15% gain in 6 years.

    For contrast, inflation has totaled nearly 20% over the past 6 years. whic means the average worker has lost about 5% in purchasing power during Bush’e reign.
    http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp

    Meanwhile, Corporate Profits have averaged 23% per year. http://www.economicsnapshots.com/archives/2006/snap20060330.htm

    And “between 2000 and 2005, median CEO pay rose 84 percent … on an inflation-adjusted basis.” http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/news/companies/ceo_pay_epi/index.htm


  9. Theresa says:

    Well, I drive a diesel, so my fuel costs are less than the national average: $2.79 a gallon and the mileage is terrific. A 2004 5 speed VW Jetta TDI Wagon; close to 53 mpg on the highway. However, when I bought the car in 2004, diesel was about $1.47 a gallon.


  10. Theresa says:

    Addendum to my #9 post: the increase in fuel costs is unacceptable.


  11. Marie says:

    I hold Bush&Co responsible for not funding incentives to mass produce an environmentally sound car at middle class prices.
    The auto industry is self-satisfied and lazy – interested only in their golden parachutes and profit margins — after the 80’s they finally caught up to imports in workmanship, and they have coasted ever since.
    They and BushCO would like to falsely blame the unions for all their troubles when they should be demanding singlepayer health insurance and get the insurance costs off their backs.
    Meanwhile, Bush&Co only pay lipservice to the high costs of fuel.


  12. George says:

    Yeah, well, come visit my neck of the woods, where regular gas has been selling for more than 3.30 a gallon for some time. Welcome to California, America.


  13. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    The United States has had multple chances to change the way we receive oil from other nations and the ways we could drill for it within our borders. We have not built any new refinery’s since the 70’s. We can’t refine the oil we receive in a timely manner. Blame Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton. AND MORE THAN ANYONE, BLAME THE LIBERALS THAT SUED OR BLOCKED ANY NEW REFINERIES BEING BUILT!!!!!!! BLAME BUSH? YOU SUED, AND YOU WON… NOW DEAL WITH IT…………


  14. TheToonGuy says:

    It’s $3.17 a gallon in Chicago. I seem to recall the president making a promise to “jawbone” the oil companies when they jacked the price up. I guess that meant that he’d call them up and they’d all have a good laugh about how they’re screwing us. Sigh.


  15. DrSinker says:

    And Bush made fun of Gore in 2000 for talking about hybrid cars.

    I heard that gas prices in Kansas are super-high. Sorry red-staters if you don’t appreciate the irony.


  16. Marie says:

    This one issue may be the final catalyst that forces the Democrats back into power.
    People aren’t paying much attention to other matters, but this one hits them every week.
    After the Dems push out the Repugs —–
    Raw Story has a link:
    An adviser to President George W. Bush wants the White House Counsel’s office to be “beef[ed] up” in case a possibly Democratic controlled House pursues a “tangle of investigations,” according to a Time Magazine web exclusive.


  17. DrSinker says:

    Jim,

    First, switch to decaf.

    Second, all-caps is well…unhinged?

    Third, new refineries wouldn’t be helping us out much right now, and aren’t a long-term solution either. We need to be seriously looking at alternative technologies, instead of just talking about them, like our fearless pres.


  18. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    Again, your ignoring FACTS. Every time this country has sought to build a refinery, YOU FILED A LAWSUIT. And your theory, “we invaded Irag for big oil and for Haliberton” was again, STUPID!!!!!!! Oh, there is a world market on the price of oil, yeah, you believed President Bush ruled that to? L O O S E R S ! ! ! !


  19. jimbo says:

    who do you think is heading the agency to protect consumers
    from corporate price gouging? And does congress do anything
    more?

    This is a complete CORRUPT “sacred” congress/president

    A BUNCH OF CROOKS!


  20. DrSinker says:

    Jim,

    Your command of grammar is really something to behold. Seriously, I’m in awe.


  21. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    DrSinker

    I agree. We need hybrid cars. We need solar heating for homes. Let’s not play politics over this. This technology needs to become cost obtainable for the average American family.


  22. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    Your worried more about grammer than facts?


  23. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    jimbo

    The federal government makes more on tax revenue than oil companies do on profit margins per gallon of gas. DID YOU KNOW THAT?????? That’s not counting state gas taxes……..


  24. DrSinker says:

    JIM,

    Nah, I was joking – just giving you a hard time. I’m no grammar-whiz myself.

    But it’s you’rewhen you mean to say “you are” and it’s spelled grammar. Sorry, I’d expect people to correct me just the same.

    In any case, I think the facts are that we’re consuming a disproportionate amount of oil as a country. That has to change if we seriously expect prices to decrease.


  25. agua fiero says:

    #22……..
    ‘grammar’ has 2 (two) a’s…………..


  26. Badmoodman says:

    Re: 100mpg Prius: new lithiumion cells – - Either Toyota has come up with an entirely new energy source or the author, Mr. Lyon, is badly in need of an editor.


  27. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    DrSinker

    I’m like you on this issue. Our country has the technology to overcome the fossil fuel issues of today. Wind technology, solar technology and hybrid technology. We have the technology, now, we have to make it cost effective. What use is the technology if the masses can’t afford it.


  28. COMMENT BY JIM says:

    DrSinker

    Your alright man. I’m counting down the days until NFL training camps. Man alive, we all need a break from this stuff every now and then.


  29. ann coulter says:

    i agree completely with jim. we need to begin drilling in anwr, kill all the wildlife, and bring that oil to momma… next, we are going to get gasoline up to six dollars a gallon so that we can start building those nuclear sites! lets see how much support you godless liberals get to stop the construction of nuclear sites throughout my country when people are deciding whether to fill their heating fuel or buy a sandwich at walmart…hehehehheheheeee…

    and, jim, you sound sorta cute :)

    kisses,

    ann


  30. agua fiero says:

    Dear Ann
    I’m sure for the Nero-cons it will be the McDonalds sandwich at Wal-Mart.
    Did you know that you can now get your Happy Meal ordered as you go thru the check-out?
    P.S. You look a little peaked these days, maybe you should supersize it…………..


  31. Southwest Bob says:

    Jim….take a deep breath and check out the following…the folks you are defending are screwing you and you don’t even know it….

    The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco (available at http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/fs/ show different ways the oil giants closed down refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business. The confidential memos demonstrate a nationwide effort by American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying and research arm of the oil industry, to encourage the major refiners to close their refineries in the mid-1990s in order to raise the price at the pump.


  32. halliburton inc. says:

    did someone say ‘build nuclear plants’…hmmmm, we do that, don’t we? well, first we have to get some of those lebanese and israeli reconstruction contracts. it was quite the luck to lose out on the ability to get those iraq, afghani contracts…what an odd coincidence that we can now focus on lebanon and israel??? oh, yeah, and maybe building those nuke plants… mmm, i feel fatter already!!


  33. DrSinker says:

    Nice try with the Coulter impersonation, but I think you forgot to sound completely insane.

    JIM – let me guess, you’re a JETS fan? EAGLES?


  34. Zooey says:

    #32 – James, you’re splintering — but not in a bad way. ;)


  35. ann coulter says:

    hi, aqua!!

    did you see me on the 700 club explaining why darwin was a godless liberal, and that fossils were created by some nuts at berkeley and scattered underneath mountains and stuff?

    well, their lighting was bad…i just drank some lebanese child blood before i went on air, so, my complexion should have had its normal pallor…the lights made me look yellow :(

    but, i was just as pretty, right?

    kisses,

    ann


  36. DrSinker says:

    Hey – one of us should write a book entitled TASTELESS with Coulter’s picture on the front. Wouldn’t it just drive her nuts if progressives made money off her?


  37. agua fiero says:

    yes…. but…. but…… who created the nuts from Berkeley….?
    Oh yeah, I remember now, it was the Director of Intelligent Design…. you know, that hairy old white guy who’s always threatening his creations with damnation if they don’t do what they are supposed to.
    Kind of odd that we are always being bad and screwing up according to him and his flock of sheep……. after all we’re his design, no? Just how intelligent is that?


  38. ann coulter says:

    you can make money on writing about me…go ahead! it will be about ME ME ME ME… that is my favortie subject :)

    i love everything about me. don’t you?

    but, personally, i don’t think anyone around here has enough ‘ann’ in her to write a book all about me… my many sides, my moods, my one black dress!

    good luck!

    kisses,

    ann


  39. LCLiberal says:

    And more record profits for the oil industry will be out later this week. Is that a coincidence? Of course not.

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  40. james risser says:

    just checking on halliburton’s nuclear power plant building capabilities, and ran across this interesting search at lycos that gives information on the iranian subsidiary–located in uae–whom, i assume, will ‘help out’ in israeli and lebanese shortly.

    perhaps the nuke building is handled by kellow brown? someone get dick on the phone!


  41. james risser says:

    if anyone know which special interest group will get the contracts on these nuke plants, please tell. the war-criminal, 5.24.06

    Nuclear power will help us deal with the issue of greenhouse gases. Without nuclear energy, carbon dioxide emissions would have been 28 percent greater in the electricity industry in 2004. Without nuclear power, we would have had an additional 700 million tons a year of carbon dioxide, and that’s nearly equal to the annual emissions from 136 million passenger cars. Nuclear power helps us protect the environment. And nuclear power is safe. It is safe because of advances in science and engineering and plant design. It is safe because the workers and managers of our nuclear power plants are incredibly skilled people who know what they’re doing. For the sake of economic security and national security, the United States of America must aggressively move forward with the construction of nuclear power plants

    also, if anyone knows the over/under on how high a gallon of gasoline needs to get in order to make the public malleable enough to allow nuke plants in their backyards, please let me know.

    i think a year at $6.00/gallon would do the trick.


  42. Jay Randal says:

    Yeah and it most likely will be over $4.00 a gallon by Christmas! If Bush causes a war on Iran then it could go up to 5 or 6 bucks a gallon by January 2007?!


  43. Sharon Cox says:

    Thank’s #39,40 &41, My head is spinning from the info on these links. Guess much of this just proves some of my old post stating this bunch of liers and thieves in the present administration have their hands up every bodys dresses…..

    Gas in the suberbs of Seattle,Wa….$3.00 to $3.20..for the past few week’s. Think they want us to get use to it and then jack it up more……I hope it goes to $5.00 before the 06 election, the big rig drivers will go nut’s and maybe get off their dead asses and vote..Blessings…Peace…..”We must be the change we wish to see in the world”..Mahatma Ghandi


  44. GSD says:

    Damn that Bill Clinton! It’s all his fault!

    -John Q. Redstatetalkingpoint


  45. Jay Randal says:

    Post 44 Sharon > Bush will call Saudis to keep the price of oil at this present level, untill a few days after the November elections, then gas prices will jump a buck or two fast! GOP likes to fool people to vote for them, then they kick them in the crotch afterwards > problem is that about 40% of Americans do not seem to mind getting kicked > lol.


  46. AvengingAngel says:

    In the latest sign that Republican class warfare is alive and well in Washington, the IRS is planning draconian cuts to its team of estate tax lawyers handling the audits of the wealthiest Americans. In the next 70 days, the IRS will shed almost half of the 345 lawyers assigned to monitor the gift and estate taxes paid – or not paid – by those with some of the largest fortunes in the United States.

    For the full story, see:
    “IRS Slashes Staff Auditing Wealthiest Americans”


  47. katy says:

    leisure guy – from your site:
    The first auto manufacturer to come out with a really high-mileage car is going to make a killing.

    or kill the notion… surely, you’ve heard of GMs EV1 electric automobile…
    a movie about the destruction of them: Who Killed the Electric Car?


  48. Chase says:

    Best way to stop spending so much on gas:

    don’t buy so much gas.


  49. jimbo says:

    AS I SAID OUR SACRED CONGRESS/PRESIDENT HAS BEEN BOUGHT
    OUT…. THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF cRoOkS :)

    To top off this scandal regarding gasoline… what does bush do..
    he sticks a oil interests counsel (former) in the federal trade
    commissions to protect us from corporate cronies/crooks

    so we have NO protection whatso ever..

    Guess Bush/congress likes it that way for the political contributions they get

    CROOKS, I SAY CROOKS = Congress/Busch

    ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND FORMALLY ELIMINATED
    FROM EVER SERVING THE PUBLIC .. THEY’RE SERVICES ARE
    TOO CORRUPT AND I WOULD FIRE THEM ALL ON THE SPOT :)


  50. piltdown says:

    Fired? How about tried for treason and SHOT!


  51. katy says:

    put a smile on your face… well, some of us will smile…

    C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with The Eagles
    By: John Amato on Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 at 7:05 PM – PDT
    “Hotel California”

    the music club comments are usually good for an entertaing diversion…


  52. james risser says:

    huh! who would believe that the bush and olmert crime families would have been planning an attack on lebanon for more than a year! i, for one, am shocked beyond belief!!! tell me it isn’t so, mr snow!!!!

    More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail. Under the ground rules of the briefings, the officer could not be identified.

    In his talks, the officer described a three-week campaign: The first week concentrated on destroying Hezbollah’s heavier long-range missiles, bombing its command-and-control centers, and disrupting transportation and communication arteries. In the second week, the focus shifted to attacks on individual sites of rocket launchers or weapons stores. In the third week, ground forces in large numbers would be introduced, but only in order to knock out targets discovered during reconnaissance missions as the campaign unfolded. There was no plan, according to this scenario, to reoccupy southern Lebanon on a long-term basis.


  53. Badmoodman says:

    Comment by Chase: “Best way to stop spending so much on gas: don’t buy so much gas.” – - An old Steve Martin bit on how to become a millionaire went like this, “First, get a million dollars, next…”
    Chase is either Steve Martin…or Tony Snow.


  54. Zooey says:

    Badmoodman,

    I have $5 on Snowflake…


  55. Jay Randal says:

    If our government had developed mass transit systems like in Europe, then most Americans could get rid of their cars, or just use them for vacations, but instead the DC fools conspired with the Oil Cartels and the automobile manufacturers to keep us all dependent on buying gasoline > no matter how high the price skyrockets!


  56. Jay Randal says:

    As for myself when the price for gas exceeds 5 bucks a gallon my car will remain in the garage as a museum piece > lol.


  57. james risser says:

    bikes work! pretty empty in here tonight…

    robert fisk of the independent

    And the Israelis did come back some hours later and bombed the barracks of these soldiers, which were members of a logistics unit. Their job was to repair bridges and electrical lines. They weren’t combat soldiers. And they killed ten Lebanese soldiers, including the three young men who had protected me the previous day. This was outrageous, because the Israelis know what each individual Lebanese army unit is doing. They know if it’s a combat unit, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, whatever.

    And they picked on this sole barracks to destroy those men, to exterminate them, because, of course, their job was to keep Beirut alive, to keep the power systems running, to repair the bridges which were being destroyed — 46 bridges now, according to Minister of Finance, who told me this a few hours ago, have been destroyed in Lebanon. This is the inheritance, of course, of former prime minister, assassinated prime minister Rafik Hariri, who was murdered on the 14th of February last year. He rebuilt this country. He rebuilt the city of Beirut.

    Now, bit by bit the bridges, the lighthouse, the international airport are being destroyed.


  58. Sharon Cox says:

    Jay, and all, good posts…My old 68 pick up is nearly a museum piece, just not as pretty.. I use $20.00 worth of gas a month for my truck. Out here in depression land we all car pool or check with neighbors when we are running errands and each pick’s up for others needed items. Rather it is hauling water, propane or groceries. Of course there are only 2 out of 11 that are still working full time so we can do that..It is not possible for most of the working class to do that and even one’s that can car pool don’t…. Blessings all..


  59. Sharon Cox says:

    James, That is the sadest thing I have read today…I must of been typing my little trivia while you were posting……I am so sick of all this mess and what Israel is doing I scream often……Blessings….Demand Peace now..


  60. Sharon Cox says:

    All posters…Please go to ….opednews.com…..If you havent already read the article on war with Iran…………Blessings


  61. The Liberal Democratic Party of the USA says:

    I drive an electric motorcycle. I suggest people avoid buying gasoline from Exxon/Mobil, the biggest GOP contributor of the Oil companies. Let the Exxon/Mobil gasoline station owners get the economic pressure that citizens get when they sell no gasoline, no oil products, no convenience stroe products and make no car repairs because outraged citizens will not deal with Exxon/Mobnil until their parent company lowers the gas price back to $1.75 a gallon.


  62. AvengingAngel says:

    In a bizarre Washington Post op-ed (”Surveillance We Can Live With”) pitching his ill-conceived NSA eavesdropping compromise, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) shows all of the hallmarks of a man in the throes of severe cognitive dissonance. While essentially pronouncing the illegality of George Bush’s illegal domestic surveillance program, he cannot bring himself to harm his President or his party.

    For the disturbing details, see:
    “Specter’s Op-Ed: Cowardice He Can Live With.”


  63. ojason baddo says:

    the writing was on the wall in the 1970’s. Twice in that decade we were made aware of the volatility of oil supplies from unstable regions of the world and our growing over-dependence on importing this foreign oil. Since then not only have we INCREASED overall consumption of oil but also increased the importation of oil from the same unstable areas!

    A smart nation would have rallied behind its citizens and heeded the warning, formualted a massive long term plan plan to become energy indepedent and be the role model for the rest of the world. Unfortunately, we did not have a visionary then & we dont have one now. Therfore, we stew in our own folly and shortsightedness


  64. jurassicpork says:

    Paul Krugman on Bush, the GOP and race relations. It may help explain to Bush why his apoproval rating among blacks is hovering at 2%.


  65. Coffins draped with flags says:

    “What use is the technology if the masses can’t afford it.”

    One thing the government could do is shift the tax breaks from the oil and gas companies to businesses that are developing sustainable energy products and to the people that purchase these products.


  66. Coffins draped with flags says:

    The Iraq war was all about O.I.L – oil, Isreal, and location. Our troops will remain in Iraq until Bush&Co think they have secured Iraq’s oil for the US oil corporate interests. So, Iraq was going to pay for the illegal war with its own oil revenue, instead gas prices have doubled, the US has a HUGE deficit, and Americans are no safer now than they were in 2000.

    Check out this link: http://www.paenergyfest.com/


  67. Coffins draped with flags says:

    If Bush causes a war on Iran then it could go up to 5 or 6 bucks a gallon by January 2007?!

    Comment by Jay Randal — July 23, 2006 @

    If Bush causes a war on Iran, we will be concerned with getting 130,000 American hostages out of Iraq. Our troops will become hostages if we attack Iran. You can bet the ranch that Iran already has missles pointed at the “Green Zone” and the Halliburton run R&R in the middle of the desert and these will be the first missles fired out of Iran.

    Let’s give peace a chance.


  68. Coffins draped with flags says:

    Bush&Co biggest fear with Iran is not the possibility of nuclear weapons, but the very real possibility of Iran cutting off oil supplies coming out of the ME.


  69. Sebastian says:

    Heh, let it keep climbing. Seems the only thing that will get people to consider alternatives, take mass transit, and use biofuels.

    I bought a diesel truck for this very reason. I make my own biodiesel, and enjoy more power, cleaner emissions, and it’s very nearly carbon neutral.


  70. big papa says:

    Oh, there is a world market on the price of oil, yeah, you believed President Bush ruled that to? L O O S E R S ! ! ! !

    Comment by COMMENT BY JIM #18

    It’s quite obvious you’re becoming unhinged Jim(crow)…

    …what’sa matter, your god Bushiva not panning out be the GREAT UNITER you thought he’d be?

    …what idiots…

    …all of you neoalcrackers…


  71. RealScientist says:

    I am a bit late to this thread, so I hope JIM is still reading, because he is SERIOUSLY CONFUSED and needs to be straightened out by someone with critical thinking skills, WHICH JIM SEEMS TO COMPLETELY LACK HIMSELF.

    JIM, a lack of oil refining capacity would cause the price of oil to DECREASE.

    I see an opportunity here to provide a basic lesson in economics to JIM and any other Republicans who might be reading this. Oil is a global commodity, the price of which is set by supply and demand (though unbeknownst to most Republicans, “supply and demand” is the fundamental law of economics). Let me walk you through a simple example.

    1. Limited refining capacity = reduced gas consumption
    2. Reduced gas consumption = reduced demand for crude oil
    3. Reduced demand for crude oil = falling oil prices

    See how that works?

    Class dismissed.


  72. Jay Randal says:

    Post 68 Coffins > yes I am sure the Iranians would fire some missiles at the Green Zone in Baghdad, but most likely about 250,000 to 500,000 Iranian troops would pour across the Iraqi border to link up with the Shia groups to attack our troops, plus Iranian troops would sweep into Kuwait to wipe out our bases there and to kill Bush’s pal the Emir! They would also sink oil tankers in the Persian Gulf to cut off the oil shipments to US and Europe too!


  73. madashell says:

    I live in Washington State – which happens to have oil refineries. Also, we are VERY close to ALASKA. We have been paying over $3.00 a gallon for over three months. I filled up at $3.14 a gallon just the other day. It has been as high as $3.30 or more.


  74. moonbat patrol says:

    # 71 why is it you cannot post even one post without displaying your ugly bigoted and biased views? can’t you talk like a normal person ? is that all ya got just stupid ,juvenile asinine blabber about how eveil anybody is that dares disgree with you? who the hell do you think you are anyway?
    I thought you left wing self described progressives always tout yourseleves as not being judgental and having an open mind or is tyhat just more lies from the left as usual?
    big poopa or whatever you call yourself you need to grow up or shut up and quit acting like you are a schoolyard bully who can’t get his way. what the hell is wrong with you? you really show the world the true face of progressive ideology so maybe I should not complain because if anybody read your drivel and whining they realize what a moron you and your liberal cause is.
    have a nice day.


  75. madashell says:

    don’t mind moonbat the troll – he is nothing more than a bush worshipper. A sociopath with no life, really. He thinks his posts of words of twisted “wisdom” are clever responses, but in all honesty, it only shows his lack of intelligence.


  76. Retired Republican Soldier says:

    I have been paying over $3 for months, welcome to the club!


  77. jimbo says:

    LISTEN…….

    THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE THAN WHAT THE CROOKS HAVE
    DONE AND ENRON…. IT’S JUST A REPEAT :(

    The Bush family has a history of that already in California, they corrupted the
    government regulation and they couldn’t do anything about it.

    WHY DO YOU THINK NATURAL GAS NATION WIDE IS SO OUTRAGEOUS…. $2 per
    therm or 100,000 BTU is outrageous

    This time Bush stuck Majoras to head the FTC regarding Gasoline, a former Chevron/
    Texaco lobbyist, to protect the consumer regarding “consumer protection”… WHAT A
    JOKE!!!!!!

    I have seen our electric rates go up well over 50% and i’m where electricity was dirt cheap… not anymore. On top of that this utility is benefiting even more by bush’s
    rollback on pollution standards.

    ABSOLUTELY…… TOTAL GRAND CORRUPTION…. K STREET, TOTALLY CORRUPT
    GRAND ON PARTY BUDDIES PADDING ONE ANOTHER SO THEY CAN ALL MAKE LOTS OF
    MONEY = EQUATES TO $1000′S OF DOLLARS OF EACH PERSON, TO LINE THEIR POCKETS. Social security is the same scandal… TOTALLY CORRUPT.

    That’s why we are seeing the price of energy AND gasoline so outrageous, just a
    repeat of Enron all over again in a nationwide snack oil scam


  78. Bluedog49 says:

    Time to remind everyone that when oil hit $50 a barrel in the 90’s, republicans blamed Clinton. Their talking point was that Clinton had no energy policy and that this was a grave threat to our security. Some republicans even posited that idea that Clinton should step down because of this. Funny, huh?


  79. Bluedog49 says:

    So, when is GW going to start that “jawboning” he promised when running for election?



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