Gas Prices Fall Another 24 Cents
Lundberg Survey: National Average For Regular Is $2.42
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Gas prices peaked about $3 a gallon earlier this summer. (CBS)
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The national average for self-serve regular was about $2.42 on Sept. 22, down from about $2.65 two weeks earlier, according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 gas stations across the country.
Mid-grade prices averaged $2.53 a gallon, while premium cost $2.64.
Gas prices peaked Aug. 11 at $3.02 and have dropped about 60 cents since that time.
The lowest average price in the survey was notched in Des Moines, Iowa — $2.07 a gallon for regular.
The highest was in Honolulu, at $3.03.
Among California cities surveyed, the highest average price for regular was $2.76 a gallon in Los Angeles. The lowest was in Bakersfield, at $2.62 a gallon.
The average for self-serve regular in California was about $2.72, down from $2.92, or 20 cents, from two weeks earlier, the survey found.
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Also, watch out for the Republicans as they try to move your attention away from the Iraq war and the so-called War on Terror before the elections. How are they going to do it - BY BLAMING DEMOCRATS FOR HIGH TAXES! What one has to do with another I do not know yet, but it will be interesting to see what our illiterate President is told to spew forth to the American public by the Republican National Committee.
One shot deal, needless to say was quite a line waiting.
Vote Republican in November and you're voting for $4.00 gas in 2007. Will a Democratic congress do the same? Hard to say, but at least we'll have a fighting chance.
It's really that simple.
Let see where the prices are at the end of November. What will be the "excuse of the week" then when gas prices go back up?
Now that heating season is just around the corner, the "energy companies" realize that they have leave at least a dollar in your pocket so they can squeeze you to death on those prices as well.
Vote Republican and be prepared to bend over again next year.
Posted by shafteriffic at 09:43 AM : Sep 25, 2006
Excuse me, but how do you know that nobody ever sees it? Not to mention how selfish you're being. Think of it this way, if some other race came here and decided that we could just be ran off and killed so that they could get something cheaper for them. How would you feel about it?
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by adventurepa
September 26, 2006 9:16 AM PDT
- Can anyone check to see if the price drops every 2 years around election time? Is there a pattern of lower prices each time there is an election? Even if the Republicans don't directly influence prices, there business friends could, if they stock up and don't buy for a week or longer, prices would drop. They already made billions so the loss would equal out over time. Payback to give the people a better feeling when it's time to vote. Ask how much the government makes on oil taxes? It's billions if not trillions.
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See all 11 CommentsMotivation? The pattern of buying and prices will tell.