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SheilaT

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35. It will have minimal effect on me.

Sat Jan 14, 2012, 07:17 PM

Jan 2012

I only get gas about every other week.

There are almost always stories about how every time gas prices come down a bit, or the economy improves a trifle, Americans go back to buying large gas-guzzlers. These stories go back twenty years or so, if I recall correctly.

My city, Santa Fe, NM, does not have very good public transportation. Whenever I relocate somewhere else, it will definitely be somewhere with good transport. Depending on where I'd wind up, I might even give up a car altogether, which I'd actually like. In my early 20's I lived in Alexandria, VA and for seven years did not own a care. This was before the Metro subway system was opened, and the bus system was quite useful and usable.

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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