Average retail gasoline prices have more than doubled under President Obama, according to government statistics, rising from $1.84 per gallon to $3.85 per gallon. The average gasoline price is calculated by the Energy Information Agency, and shows that over the past 43 months of President Obama's term retail gasoline prices have more than doubled, rising from an average of $1.84 per gallon to $3.85 per gallon.
Rising gasoline prices were particularly prevalent in August, which saw a 9.0 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for gasoline, a rise that almost entirely accounts for the general increase in prices seen by families across the country over the past month. In other words, the recent spike in prices for all goods -- tracked by the government's Consumer Price Index -- can be almost entirely accounted for by the rise in gasoline prices. Prices in the economy rose by 0.6 percent overall in August.
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$4.25 in Chicago burbs. More in the City.
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Here i live in UAE. Bitrol price is very high here too and we have no Obama... we pay nearly dollar for US gallon (3.8 ltr).
Wow! A whole dollar. How much does sand cost? How much is food?
Posted by: Secret Asian Man ||
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Betting the Dead Horse.
And with the newest printing of money without backing, QE3, it's never going to go back down. Your dollar is worth less and less in the commodity markets with these actions by the Fed-Treasury cabal.
Once we vote out our current crop of idiots in Washington, dump our dependence on Mideast oil, use our own resources, oil prices will come down here too. The good thing about it AlHaan, you will probably be able to enjoy gasoline for less than a dollar/gal due to reduced demand in the UAE. However, the rest of your economy may have some problems.
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This was always his plan. Make fuel too expemsive and achieve two thimgs. First keep us hobbled by fuel costs and insure we become more dependant on govt aid, and second to drive us to his green energy cars, Volt. Both plans are failures. His admin fails to realize how America loves their cars. He would have been a hero if he would have opened two new refineries and then mandated 50 mpg on new cars within four years.
Detroit and the Japanese have had the technology for years. My honda CRX HF got 45 MPG in 1983. We need to get them on it and off these environmental nightmare battery cars...
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Simple solution - redefine the US gallon to include just 2 quarts, and halve the price of gas INSTANTLY. Obama's true believers will be gratified & won't know the difference.
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Gas in Anchorage ak is 3.86 per gallon, and gas last week in Bend, Or was 4.09 per gallon.
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$3.59 Friday in Richmond, Va.
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$4.09 in Santee, CA
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Remember when we got high gas prices are horrible news reports on a daily basis? When was that, back pre-2008? Yeah, that's right. Not sure what changed in 2008 but suddenly high gas prices are not news.
I'm sure I know the reason, but can't think of the word right now. It's on the tip of my tongue - starts with "d" . . . huh, just can't get it. It will come to me, I'm sure.
Posted by: Barbara ||
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I've lived without TV, can do it again. Most of the stuff is garbage anyway. I lived without electricity when I was a kid. We also had one of those two-hole outhouses. A bit cold during Michigan winters. However, the experience, developed a knowledge of self-sufficiency and independence. Message for the networks: Don't junk up my TV with that crap. I didn't like Obamacare the first time it was shoved down our throats and we were told to swallow and like it.
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I stopped watching TV a little over 8 years ago, don't miss it a bit. The first 21 days were withdrawal, but, by the time 5 to 6 weeks passed I was done with it.
Canceled the cable and with the money I was saving found some hobbies and started reading again.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man ||
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I'm surprised that they even have to ask.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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The tv networks are in steady, serious decline. The govt could subsidize or take them over, but they will still decline.
The USSR with its central control fell. A good warning that is unheeded by O and Co. Faxes, little primitive faxes did not help, either.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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It could have been done in the old days before cable. Now, those who need their tv can retreat to movies and reruns, and never notice the difference...which is why ABC, CBS, NBC and even public television have been loosing market share for years.
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I have put in a request that Achmed be invited to a Leno show. Leno gave up 50% of his pay already. He could get Achmed and get nothing. Letterman wouldn't work because he just has canned laughter. On Leno they could get good hang time for about fifty feet.
[Al Ahram] Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East.
The Internet company said it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia after blocking it on Wednesday in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors enraged over depiction of the Prophet Mohammad as a fraud and philanderer.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in a fiery siege on the embassy in Benghazi.
Google said it was further restricting the clip to comply with local law rather than as a response to political pressure.
"We've restricted access to it in countries where it is illegal such as India and Indonesia, as well as in Libya and Egypt, given the very sensitive situations in these two countries," the company said. "This approach is entirely consistent with principles we first laid out in 2007."
White House officials had asked Google earlier on Friday to reconsider whether the video had violated YouTube's terms of service. The guidelines can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines.
Google initially said on Wednesday that the video was within its guidelines.
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It's a piece of hack job film that your high school student would get an F for for the quality and content of the presentation. However we are supposedly to have a constitutional right to say anything in this wonderful country.
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I still won't use any of their crummy products or services, but you have to wonder if they are still supporting the leftist political dark side in America with the same fervor as they so recently had...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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All O has to do is talk to the Chinese and find out how they got Google to cave so quickly.
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Champ must be way out in left field if even his good pals at Google won't do him a favor.
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Google is doing what is best for Google. They'll kowtow to China, because that's where they think their biggest market is. They'll restrict access in other places because they either have a market toe-hold in that country or it's yet untapped.
As for the White House, it's either to keep from alienating their customer base, or because it will set a unwanted precedent after Mr. Obama leaves office.
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If Google pulls the film, it is immediately forgotten and quickly irrelevant. This is NOT the goal of the current administration. To be an effective distraction and scape goat, the film must continue to simmer and seeth. The film is the foundation of their "spontaneous events" strategy. Take spontaneous away and you must answer some very pressing intelligence questions.
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Average retail gasoline prices have more than doubled under President Obama, according to government statistics, rising from $1.84 per gallon to $3.85 per gallon. The average gasoline price is calculated by the Energy Information Agency, and shows that over the past 43 months of President Obama's term retail gasoline prices have more than doubled, rising from an average of $1.84 per gallon to $3.85 per gallon.
