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12. $5 gas, invasion of Iran, Jeb Bush running for president, stock market collapse

Sat Jan 14, 2012, 03:54 PM

Jan 2012

All predictions that regularly appear on DU (and elsewhere). While eventually any and all may occur, the track record of these prognostications thus far is pretty dismal. (While some people may have paid $5 for a gallon of gas sometime in 2011, the peak average was around $4 and change.)

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$5 gas [View all] Tallulah Jan 2012 OP

I paid $5.69 in December in California. NYC_SKP Jan 2012 #1

Tallulah? Tallulah? What are you doing posting on DU--get off my laptop! hlthe2b Jan 2012 #2

LOL Tallulah Jan 2012 #8

Well we have caught cookie putting USB ports in and out nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #19

makes you wonder what they do when we aren't around... hlthe2b Jan 2012 #37

Oh I don't want to know nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #38

i think it's called election year projecting....and bullshit spanone Jan 2012 #3

I tend to agree with you. And here where I am gas prices are lower than thye've been in a while. totodeinhere Jan 2012 #4

No one will blame him for prices ,But orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #6

blaming doesn't help Tallulah Jan 2012 #11

Nor does bigotry ,religious fanaticism , or homophobia orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #14

Threatening war against Iran is driving oil up kenny blankenship Jan 2012 #29

How I hope Tallulah Jan 2012 #9

To & fro thats where the money woes go orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #5

That could be one way to kill an economic recovery liberal N proud Jan 2012 #7

thinking of the people Tallulah Jan 2012 #10

$5 gas, invasion of Iran, Jeb Bush running for president, stock market collapse onenote Jan 2012 #12

No effect personally - I bicycle to work and most places bhikkhu Jan 2012 #13

I have since july ,I only work 4 miles from home.. orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #15

Your grocery costs will go up, big time. Zalatix Jan 2012 #17

What? It takes gas to move my potatoes from farm to shelf? nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #21

Perhaps not where you live, IIRC. And honestly I think that may be a good thing for America. Zalatix Jan 2012 #22

Agreed, I decided not to use the sarcasm thingy nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #24

BTW how is it down there for fair weather folks? Zalatix Jan 2012 #25

I got no idea,I am not from Chile nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #26

Not at all really, but that's another story bhikkhu Jan 2012 #23

Higher gas prices drive up the prices of everything. Especially food. onehandle Jan 2012 #27

Yes, I forgot about that aspect bhikkhu Jan 2012 #28

It's exactly what I was saying. Grocery bills = food bills. Zalatix Jan 2012 #31

What if the $5 gas was from US wells and refineries. That would be a Buy America policy and all jody Jan 2012 #16

Problem with that: the US produces slightly more than 5.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2012 #43

I live in Chicago: gas is currently around $3.79-$3.89 per gallon frazzled Jan 2012 #18

Oh if things go where they are pointing to in the ME nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #20

I started ride sharing to work because of the cost of gas and BART lunatica Jan 2012 #30

KEYSTONE PIPELINE;--to send gas to China ErikJ Jan 2012 #32

Oil from...Canada Spider Jerusalem Jan 2012 #44

Notice that the "liberally-biased media" won't remember zbdent Jan 2012 #33

I remember the good old days when the oil companies bothered to give a reason DefenseLawyer Jan 2012 #34

It will have minimal effect on me. SheilaT Jan 2012 #35

Several of my family drive to work. One could stay with family for her shift closer to work but the jwirr Jan 2012 #36

Other countries have been paying that much for a long time.. SomethingFishy Jan 2012 #39

Other countries have viable transportation options taterguy Jan 2012 #40

I just paid $6.39/gallon in Japan Art_from_Ark Jan 2012 #41

Time to buy an electric car Mosaic Jan 2012 #42