As of December 2, 2005, the average price for regular unleaded fuel in Oklahoma, South Carolina, Missouri, and Georgia is below $2 per gallon. The national average price is somewhere around $2.09 per gallon and falling. For example check out the prices in the Atlanta area:
- Atlanta (Regular Unleaded)
Current - $1.954
Yesterday - $1.966
Month Ago - $2.442
Year Ago - $1.832
Highest Recorded Price:
9/3/2005 - $3.116
Update: Tom Blumer sends along word of a poll appearing in The Wall Street Journal today which shows 43% of the country believes we're in a recession. He passes this advice on the Republican majority, "[I]gnore the polls, vote the reality."
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90% agree, except....... (Below threshold)1. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | December 2, 2005 10:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
90% agree, except....
Natural gas, diesel and home heating oil are still running high.
1. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | December 2, 2005 10:58 AM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 10:58
2. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 11:03 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Diesel, at least, always lags behind the trend in gasoline prices hereabouts.
2. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 11:03 AM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 11:03
3. Posted by Matt | December 2, 2005 11:15 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I had to bitchslap myself yesterday when I realized I was nearing orgasm over paying $1.92 a gallon.
3. Posted by Matt | December 2, 2005 11:15 AM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 11:15
4. Posted by Brian | December 2, 2005 11:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gas here in Iowa is under $2 in most places. This morning I had to go fill up, and it was $1.869.
4. Posted by Brian | December 2, 2005 11:34 AM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 11:34
5. Posted by jp2 | December 2, 2005 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Not only are the natural gas prices rising - dramatically - but we still have had a massive increase in the price of gas. It isn't necessarily a Republican attack. If you started driving 10 years ago, you've seen the price almost triple. A very big deal.
-jp2
5. Posted by jp2 | December 2, 2005 11:53 AM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 11:53
6. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | December 2, 2005 12:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
But still cheaper (adjusted for inflation), and more available, than in the Carter Malaise.
6. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | December 2, 2005 12:04 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 12:04
7. Posted by Peter F. | December 2, 2005 1:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
$2.19 here in Seattle. Down from $2.23 just last night.
7. Posted by Peter F. | December 2, 2005 1:23 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 13:23
8. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 1:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
$2.19 here in Seattle.
Dang -- that's almost half the price of a small cup of coffee!
8. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 1:40 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 13:40
9. Posted by Will Franklin | December 2, 2005 1:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Rock on.
9. Posted by Will Franklin | December 2, 2005 1:49 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 13:49
10. Posted by DL From Heidelberg | December 2, 2005 1:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Just spent a week in my home state of NJ. Regular unleaded was going for $1.85 a gal. at Hess.
10. Posted by DL From Heidelberg | December 2, 2005 1:59 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 13:59
11. Posted by Bat One | December 2, 2005 2:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I live in the metro Atlanta area, and I filled up yesterday at $1.749 per gallon.
11. Posted by Bat One | December 2, 2005 2:19 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 14:19
12. Posted by Yolanda | December 2, 2005 2:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I just received a notice from an overnight courier service. They're dropping the 2% fuel surcharge they had previously tacked on but are now increasing package and freight rates by 5.5%. I have this feeling that none of the vendors that had tacked on fuel surcharges are going to rescind them.
12. Posted by Yolanda | December 2, 2005 2:27 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 14:27
13. Posted by anachronda | December 2, 2005 3:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Shoshone, CA last weekend: $3.06. Pahrump, NV, just 20 miles away: $2.29.
13. Posted by anachronda | December 2, 2005 3:10 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:10
14. Posted by Bookworm | December 2, 2005 3:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I was pleasantly surprised, in my expensive part of the U.S., to see gas prices have sunk almost to the $2.00 mark (almost being $2.20). Nary a word in the local press. Fortunately, this is one of those disconnects between the press and reality that must impinge on the public's consciousness and, perhaps, educate it about the press's perfidy.
14. Posted by Bookworm | December 2, 2005 3:10 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:10
15. Posted by joe | December 2, 2005 3:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Weird. Just outside Ann Arbor, prices have jumped from 1.99 Monday to 2.09 and today 2.19. Wonder what's up.
15. Posted by joe | December 2, 2005 3:12 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:12
16. Posted by bf | December 2, 2005 3:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Price Update:
Atlanta: $1.86 per gallon.
I filled up two days ago at that price. The highest I've seen this week is $1.90.
16. Posted by bf | December 2, 2005 3:23 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:23
17. Posted by bf | December 2, 2005 3:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Price Update:
Atlanta: $1.86 per gallon.
I filled up two days ago at that price. The highest I've seen this week is $1.90.
17. Posted by bf | December 2, 2005 3:24 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:24
18. Posted by Peter F. | December 2, 2005 3:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wasn't gas in Atlanta like $5 just after Katrina?
18. Posted by Peter F. | December 2, 2005 3:33 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:33
19. Posted by Bat One | December 2, 2005 3:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Peter F.
Yes, it was... for all of one afternoon, and due largely to an unfounded rumor regarding damage to a local pipeline. The next day it started to settle back to the $3 national average.
Atlanta is a huge and dynamic market for almost any sort of product or service. But it is also the most competitive market as well.
19. Posted by Bat One | December 2, 2005 3:54 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 15:54
20. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 6:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Peter F. wrote:
Wasn't gas in Atlanta like $5 just after Katrina?
Bat One replied:
Yes, it was... for all of one afternoon, and due largely to an unfounded rumor regarding damage to a local pipeline.
And in fact, that was $5.879 at one gas station. The picture of its price sign was so widely circulated (thank you, MSM) that people across the country thought every gas station in the area was charging that much on a permanent basis.
20. Posted by McGehee | December 2, 2005 6:00 PM |
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Posted on December 2, 2005 18:00
21. Posted by MikeSC | December 3, 2005 11:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
43% of the country thinks we're in a recession?
Hmm, when a large percentage of the country thought Saddam was behind 9/11, Bush was blamed for that --- even though nobody in his administration made that statement.
The press HAS openly downplayed the economy for a few years now.
So, Bush is bad because he didn't actually try to skew public opinion towards a false belief --- but the press ISN'T bad because they DID try to skew public opinion towards a false belief?
Weird.
21. Posted by MikeSC | December 3, 2005 11:33 AM |
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Posted on December 3, 2005 11:33