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10-14-2008, 09:45 AM
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Gas Prices Are Falling! :D
My apologies if this has already been posted, but I think it's good news for us all:
Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months.
"The only place they have to go is down," says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). "We'll be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving."
Travel organization AAA foresees prices 10 cents a gallon lower by the end of next week. It reported a nationwide average of $2.84 Tuesday, the lowest since April 20.
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10-14-2008, 09:52 AM
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yes the gasoline prices are going down. but that means more people will be fighting for it  we seriously need to get off of gas
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10-14-2008, 09:57 AM
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Amen to that! I'm all about electric vehicles being used. They are better for the environment, and probably would be easier on the wallet. [Unless the electric companies started to get -really- greedy all of a sudden.]
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10-14-2008, 10:12 AM
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I don't like greedy companies that make our economy turn cold
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10-14-2008, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by dead_dreams
I don't like greedy companies that make our economy turn cold |
The media have a lot to answer for, and the banks, companies just do what they always have done. I.E. Make as much profit as possible.
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10-14-2008, 10:43 AM
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They jacked up the price of bus rides here because of high gas prices. Will they lower it now?
I'm guess no.
Its like when our dollar was strong they wouldn't lower book prices to the American price.
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10-14-2008, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Saya
They jacked up the price of bus rides here because of high gas prices. Will they lower it now?
I'm guess no.
Its like when our dollar was strong they wouldn't lower book prices to the American price. |
I'd still ride the bus though, instead of paying 3$ a gallon for gas.
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10-14-2008, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Saya
They jacked up the price of bus rides here because of high gas prices. Will they lower it now?
I'm guess no.
Its like when our dollar was strong they wouldn't lower book prices to the American price. |
Probably not, because people'll still ride the buses, just complain more. If there was a noticeable shift downwards in demand, then yeah, it would. But I very much doubt there will be.
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'To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.' - Giorgio de Chirico
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10-14-2008, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by dead_dreams
I'd still ride the bus though, instead of paying 3$ a gallon for gas.
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Y'see! .........
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Pie Jesu domine..... Donna eis requiem - *thwack*
'To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.' - Giorgio de Chirico
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10-14-2008, 10:12 PM
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In a lot of places, the buses don't run on petrol, so they don't have to raise the prices. (in places as such, they run on CNG which I believe is compressed natural gas and, hence, not petrol.0
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10-14-2008, 10:55 PM
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This is very good news. Especially if you live in an area where public transportation is lacking (or non-existent).
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10-14-2008, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Makes me mad though, they jacked up the price specifically because gas was expensive, now that its getting cheaper we don't see the price reduced.
I can't drive anyway, I don't even have my permit. I'm terrified of driving >.<
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10-14-2008, 11:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Here in North Carolina, there's a city that has gas below 3$ a gallon 
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10-14-2008, 11:19 PM
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I've heard gas was going for $2-something here a while ago at a couple of places.
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10-14-2008, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBloodEternity
I've heard gas was going for $2-something here a while ago at a couple of places.
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those people are so lucky. I'm having to pay $3:50 a gallon
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10-14-2008, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dead_dreams
those people are so lucky. I'm having to pay $3:50 a gallon |
We got some gas for 2.98 today.
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10-15-2008, 12:00 AM
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*cries that people are getting "cheap gas" while I'm paying $3:50 a gallon*
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10-15-2008, 01:41 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Tennessee
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It's $2.99 in my town, but I fully expect it to rise right back up around the Thanksgiving week/weekend, despite what everyone thinks.
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10-15-2008, 01:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by dead_dreams
*cries that people are getting "cheap gas" while I'm paying $3:50 a gallon*
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Yep Wisconsin gets the cheap gas alot of the time, we're always on the low end of the range of prices. Apparently the lowest gas price here is $2.79 currently while the highest is $3.19.
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"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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10-15-2008, 02:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Heck the price range for premium gas here is 3.03 to 3.39.
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"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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10-15-2008, 02:17 AM
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You lucky people, I've just worked out that petrol here costs 5.9 dollars a gallon...
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10-15-2008, 11:25 AM
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We have 0.95 or 1.00 $CD gas per litre here, so that would be about 4.25$US per gallon.
I don't drive, even though I'm 21.
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10-15-2008, 11:52 AM
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Since the prices got down, the goverment only reduced the prices by 5%
And when the prices of gas are up, so is everything else.
So we're still pretty much on the old prices (in everything).
The goverment is taking all the profits.
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10-15-2008, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jack_the_knife
You lucky people, I've just worked out that petrol here costs 5.9 dollars a gallon...
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Yeh, it's like $7 USD a gallon here I think.
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10-15-2008, 12:22 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by Raptor
Yeh, it's like $7 USD a gallon here I think.
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That's insane.
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