How much did you pay for gas today?

3.85, expecting to pay more than 4.00 by the end of the weekend.

 

Wednesday 3.85, Thursday 3.99, today 4.17.

All at the same station. Ridiculous

 

Thursday morning, gas was $3.99. Thursday evening, $4.15.
Afraid to look at what it is tonight.

 

It's $3.79 here now, up 20 cents from when I filled the truck's tank early last week. What's scary is, there doesn't seem to be any ceiling on prices, and the ever-upward spiral takes the prices for food and everything else up with it. What's going to happen when it costs so much just to ship goods that the prices are higher than people can afford? I mean, what's the end game here? Where does it end? How the hell can a person making minimum wage or a little higher afford to drive to work, let alone put food on the table?

Does it get to the point where we have food riots and armed insurrections here? Is this the beginning of the end for the United States as we know it? Is there a revolution in our lifetime?

I seriously don't know the answers to any of these questions. But thinking about them worries me.

 

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 

With the way these gas prices are, I wouldn't be surprised to find out in three months that some scientist in Oregon created a car that runs on water and that all this price gauging was just because the demand for oil is going to plummet.

Of course, that's what I'm hoping anyway.

 

Saw $3.85 today.

 

$4.19

 

Up to $3.89 now. Hopefully I've got enough to make it till Tuesday. I bet it drops 5 cents or so after the holiday. I could be wrong. I could be paying $4 a gallon on Tuesday.

 

you drive a lot

 

$4/gallon gas sparks revolutions and the end of the United States as we know it? Maybe those Greatest Generation geezers have us down pat -- we ARE spoiled. I was but a Mystery McNugget during the oil rationing of the 70s, but if that doesn't cause insurrection, why would this?

And to be a real shit-disturber re: Bush and the GOP are inflating the price conspiracies -- http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

Gas prices dropped dramatically in the fall of 05 and 06 (and before anyone says anything, 05 is an off-year for elections if you're not in Virginia, New York or D.C.). In January 07, we installed a new, Dem-controlled Congress. And we didn't get our fall freefall last year. Conclusion: Nancy Pelosi is driving up our gas prices. How's THAT for conspiracy theory?

 

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