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  1. Denny Crane

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    Gas prices are now $4.227 a gallon. Highest since Oct. 26 (shortly before election).

    The price is up $.50/gallon over the past 19 days. The price has gone up for 19 days straight.

    Nationwide, the price has gone up for 32 straight days and the average price is $3.73.

    The numbers is for regular unleaded gas.

    Coupled with the tax hike on the middle class (FICA holiday expired), it's got to hurt.

    EDIT: the $4.227 a gallon is in San Diego. What are they near you?
     
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    Should be around $5 per gallon by the summer. And to think that even $5 per gallon is 50% Less than what people pay in Europe.
     
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    about 3.60 right now here
     
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    I am still in the $3.40's
     
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    every year we hear that "gas will be 5 bucks a gallon" by summer..

    and yet, it never is.
     
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    Maybe it won't; but even if it is; it's still 50% cheaper than buying it in Europe.
     
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    My guess is that the massive oil shale boom has driven up supply in the mountain states. That boom is going crazy in Wyoming, ferinstance. Without infrastructure to ship it cheaply (remember, this whole boom is pretty new) the few people living in these low-population states get a bargain.
     
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    It's roughly twice the price of gas in Europe before you add taxes to either.
     
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    Isn't that what I said?

    I was in England about 3 years ago. Their gas was 2 pounds per liter. That's almost 12 US dollars per gallon
     
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    Dammit Denny -- I'm a physicist, not an economist. I was hoping YOU would tell ME!
     
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    its 370 here right now

    anyone remember why it dropped to below $2 right before the election in 08?
     
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