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#913399 - 02/29/08 10:23 PM
Gas prices straining budgets, CNN.com readers say
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I saw this headline on CNN.com today. I'm just curious, how many of you have cut back on your amount of driving because of gas prices?
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#913412 - 02/29/08 10:30 PM
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I heard a reporter ask GW what he thought about gas going up to $4 a gallon. Dubbya said, who told you that? I haven't heard that. Scary.
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#913419 - 02/29/08 10:36 PM
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I'm not aware it is at $4.00 either, at least not here...
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#913422 - 02/29/08 10:37 PM
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I heard a reporter ask GW what he thought about gas going up to $4 a gallon. Dubbya said, who told you that? I haven't heard that. Scary. Heard that, too. DUHbya is not up on current events, is he?
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#913425 - 02/29/08 10:38 PM
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The reports are saying it will be up over $4 this spring in certain parts of the country. The analyst reports have been out there but I guess GW hadn't read them. Even if he didn't think they were true you would think he would know what is being told to the public.
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#913506 - 03/01/08 06:59 PM
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Prices on the rise in the Chicago area already!!! We will probably drive my VW Bug instead of the SUV more as prices rise
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#913507 - 03/01/08 07:30 PM
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HOLY COW!!! Gas prices are straining budgets???? When did this happen????
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#913509 - 03/01/08 07:58 PM
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I talked to my dad, back in Ohio, this morning and gas prices there are about 50 cents to almost a dollar more there than here in Phx. Still, it costs me about $35 to fill my tank every other week.
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#913523 - 03/02/08 04:53 AM
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I spent $49.50 to fill my tank this morning. I paid around $2.90/gallon for unleaded. Gas in my area of the country is usually lower than most places.
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#913538 - 03/03/08 04:13 AM
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#913567 - 03/03/08 01:52 PM
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I paid $3.11 this morning. This hurts along with my 40-mile one-way commute.
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#913576 - 03/03/08 02:10 PM
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My car has really good gas milage, but I've still cut back. My poor bf has a Blazer with a racing engine in it and we have to just park his car.
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#913579 - 03/03/08 02:21 PM
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I recently got a job at a different FI. This has enabled my wife and I to ride to work together as her job is only about a quarter mile from mine. So, although it didn't have to do with the price of gas, we have cut back. Now we actually have to make sure that her car is being driven enough.
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#913601 - 03/03/08 02:52 PM
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Gas prices here are about $3.39 for the cheap stuff.
Supposedly it costs more to bring gas to my area of the country. Pffft, whatever.
Thank God my car is reasonably good on gas, unlike my old Land Rover with full time four wheel drive and a V-8.
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#913603 - 03/03/08 02:54 PM
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This morning on Today the news reported that in San Diego it has gone over $4/gallon.
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#913609 - 03/03/08 03:02 PM
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what, already over $4; how much of that goes to Arnold?
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#913695 - 03/03/08 04:37 PM
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Well then, the government should take them over and share the profits with ALL people!
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#913747 - 03/03/08 05:17 PM
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We're lucky right now, they just opened a Sheetz gas station down the road from the bank I work for and they've kept the prices even lower than low as a grand opening scheme. Filled up at $2.88 Friday and it's only gone up to $2.94. The Texaco station my husband runs is about 30 mins north of here and they are at $3.09. The worst I've seen in my area so far is $3.15. Been meaning to ask my sisters who live just over the Mt. in WVa how much they're paying, it usually runs about $.15-$.20 higher over there.
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#913752 - 03/03/08 05:22 PM
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I bet the state of CA takes a buck or more of that $4
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