So you face Gate-Rape by Air
And pocket-rape by land.
Gasoline prices will start rising again for the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the busiest travel holidays of the year.
The average price of regular-grade gas in the Dayton area will climb to at least $2.81 a gallon through the holiday, said Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy.com, which monitors gasoline prices in various cities. That compares with $2.73 a gallon on Monday afternoon, according to DaytonGasPrices.com, one of the GasBuddy.com sites.
At least the media is starting to talk about gas prices under the Obama Administration…
Ohh gee. My heart so bleeds for you down there. Slap in the face territory is seeing the pipeline along the road, and being able to see the North Pole refinery from town. (I wish we could locally purchase that thing and start cranking out our own fuel, rather than it producing jet fuel for the military and selling it to the Japanese.)
Our prices are at $3.50something and have held steady at that for months now. I would be ecstatic to pay $2.81 for gas. I rarely have that many fuel points at Fred Meyer. If I’m lucky I will only have a $.50 discount. Oh, and those discounts come as $.10 off per gallon for every $100 spent there each month.
Yeah we get the same gas rewards from our local grocery store.
Man I didn’t know it was that expensive up there. Seems odd given all the oil and refineries you have there.
Then again we don’t get a nice check from the refineries every year. Also we have traffic down here. potay-to, to PoTah-to…:D
The dividend in no way equals the difference in gas and oil prices. Heating oil is disgustingly expensive too, and the heat has been on for ages this year even with the relatively mild winter so far. This year we received $1,281.00 (they are going down thanks to the stock market tanking). It really doesn’t go too far towards fuel, or even the difference in prices of food at the store. IE a 16 oz container of sour cream (not the store brand- that one tastes funny) was $2.69. A half gallon of milk was on sale for $2.50.
It’s worse for anyone who lives out of town too. Some places have something like a $8 gallon of milk. That just sucks.
Don’t mind me, I’m bitter about the dividend due to the medical stuff sucking it all up and then some.
Waitwait… you mean, if the supply of something holds stable and the demand goes up (say there’s a holiday or something), the price will INCREASE?
Stop the presses! We’re going to get you a Nobel prize for economics!
What do you mean, that’s day one of ECON-101? Butbut… a chance to blame politicians for something! We aren’t going to let it go unnoticed and unappreciated, are we?!?
(Side note: since air travel also relies on petroleum products, airfares also go up around holidays when demand increases. So the “pocket-rape by land” is also applicable to air travel, IN ADDITION to the nice ogle-or-grope choice.)