Has anyone noticed gas prices lately?

[Dawgs]

I haven't heard anyone talk about gas prices, yet they sit just above $2.00. This price was unacceptable just a few months ago, but since we had a short jump to $3.00 no one has even mentioned it.

Was this the plan all along? Where is the outcry? Did the oil companies get exactly what they wanted by creating a spike? Did the propoganda work?

It seems to me that the fact it has hung so close to $2.00 should raise some flags. I am the only that has noticed this?

[B Calm]

1. No you are not the only one to notice it. They always gouge

the price up during the holidays!

[SkipNewarkDE]

2. They are rising in my area

We are up to around $2.27 a gallon for regular in my area (Delaware & Pennsylvania).

[MadisonProgressive]

3. It's 2.259 here (Madison, WI)

I think most people are just so overwhelmed by all the problems that they are a little numb.

[calico1]

4. I was just talking about this to someone.

Since they went over $3 a gallon, now you hear people say how "cheap" it is again. Yes, I think it was the plan all along, and unfortunately it seems to have worked.

[acmejack]

8. It is a tried & true methodology

The gasoline companies have used this method with great success since the early seventies.

[MADem]

5. Everyone is too busy crapping their drawers about NATURAL gas prices

Go broke driving around, or sit at home and shiver.

Helluva choice!

[masshole]

6. prices going up again here

I paid $2.25/gal for 89 octane at a local Citgo last night.

[hippiechick]

7. Yes, it was.

n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. average of 2.49 in Chicago. Higher in places.

it bounced up a good 30 cents sinvce before x-mas

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Lower In The Southern Edges Of Chicagoland

We're up to a bit under $2.20 most places. I actually saw $2.05 between Shorewood and Plainfield on Monday! But, nobody else was within 9 cents of that.
The Professor

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. wow prof, I am south of chitown too. 2.39 and 2.46

But, because gas prices have the same relationship to cost, supply, and demand that creationism has to the actual age of the multiverse, it is a lovely, abstract but expensive exercise. Which is why I drive as little as possible.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. I'm Down In Southern Will County

But, i was in Joliet on Christmas Eve and it seemed the general price was about $2.18, plus or minus a few cents.
The Professor

[rucky]

10. Relative Deprevation Theory

Oil psy-ops conducted on us. We'll never see it below 2 bucks again.

[devinsgram]

11. Funny you should mention this,

I have thought that for a long time now. What they do is raise the price so high and then bring it back down to a somewhat better place and then inch it up to where they orginally want it. That way the consumer doen't notice the hike as much. Now it will stay at this price until they decide to hike it up again. They figure the consumer is too stupid to notice. Probably over the summer they'll try it again. In my area, Hershey, it's up to 2.25.

[marmar]

12. In the Detroit area, they rose 20 cents in 4 hrs. yesterday...

When I left for work, the price was about $2.12 a gallon...
But when I came home for lunch, it was up to $2.33 a gallon.
Oil companies have been playing us for time immemorial. It's been very pronounced since the election of 2000 though, when they sought to install their puppet government (successfully, unfortunately)!

:(

[notadmblnd]

13. it was up to about 2.29 just before Christmas

here in S. E. Michigan. Was down to 2.09 Monday night. I imagine it will be back up in the 2.20 for the coming weekend though.

[stop the bleeding]

14. I have thought the exact same thing as well

:tinfoilhat:

[ComerPerro]

15. Yeah, they went up to $3 a gallon so paying 2-2.20 wouldn't seem so bad

[trotsky]

17. And as long as they are above $2,

the "average" family sees their wonderful Bush tax cut completely consumed by buying gas.

Neat, huh? Who says conservatives aren't for the transfer of wealth? As long as it's FROM ordinary folks and TO corporations and the wealthy!

[Frustratedlady]

18. $2.059 in Iowa

That was yesterday afternoon. Glad I filled the tank. I got my gas/elec. bill and it was $350 for December compared to $249 in 2004. That's a bunch for flautulence.

[Theres-a]

19. I paid 2.29 for the "87" grade

Last night.Inching up,now that the holiday shopping spree is over.

[madokie]

20. I done some work for a fella who had just sold his chain of

Lady's apparel stores, thats how he referred to them anyway. He told us that when he had a product that wasn't moving he would move it to the back and then in a few day bring it back out with an inflated price say of 30% and then mark it down 20% and move all of them and be wishing he'd bought more. He said it never failed.

[maveric]

23. $2.19 in San Diego

Was in LA last week and I saw it for $2.09. San Francisco was around $2.09 too.