Yo, Aunt Judy, found you some $4 gas!

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MLOM - 11 Apr 2008 01:51 GMT

Over $4 in some places in the LA metro area (no need to run to Alaska
to get it).

http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/

Heard also on the news it's $4.09 in Beverly Hills.

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Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS demonstrates its
Carnac the Magnificent impression:

"At least they did where i live. It'll be $3 by
turkey day and $4 by Xmas as exxon tries to make
up for the money they lost lowering prices to
help their bud Bush."

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ChrisCoaster - 12 Apr 2008 15:16 GMT

> Over $4 in some places in the LA metro area (no need to run to Alaska
> to get it).
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> Ref:http://tinyurl.com/y35dzw
> Msg ID:g1b6m2toqvke4g7jampip7d32kalsvv...@4ax.com

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Are you kidding? - the rest of the civilized world has been paying
$4-5 a gallon for over a decade! As I said five years ago, when gas
stayed above $2/gal for an extended period of time - America is facing
the great equalizer, and paying what the rest of the world pays to
fuel up & drive.

-CC

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MLOM - 12 Apr 2008 23:15 GMT

> > Over $4 in some places in the LA metro area (no need to run to Alaska
> > to get it).
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Ah, but there is a tax difference. Europeans have been paying around
$5 for more like 25 years or so. Now they're facing $7-8.

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d.g.s. - 12 Apr 2008 23:54 GMT

On 4/12/2008 3:15 PM MLOM ignored two million years of human evolution
to write:

> Europeans have been paying around
> $5 for more like 25 years or so. Now they're facing $7-8.

Eurpeans are paying from 4 euros (for low-end diesel) to more than 5
euros - in some case, nearly 6 euros - for gasoline (gallon-equivalent
prices). They don't pay in dollars, so the conversion rate doesn't mean
much to them, except that the strong euro keeps prices down relative to
what Europeans receive in their euro-denominated paychecks. If the
euro had the kind of exchange rates with the dollar that it had just a
few years ago, Europeans would be paying a lot more.

They also offset it by driving having a much wider choice of fuel-
efficient vehicles from which to choose than Americans do.

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necromancer - 14 Apr 2008 05:27 GMT

>Are you kidding? - the rest of the civilized world has been paying
>$4-5 a gallon for over a decade! As I said five years ago, when gas
>stayed above $2/gal for an extended period of time - America is facing
>the great equalizer, and paying what the rest of the world pays to
>fuel up & drive

Big difference: in those countries, most of the price of gas has been
rather high taxes that I am ASSuming go to the good of the citizens of
that country. Unlike here where all the money from the recent high gas
prices are going in to the pockets of the puppeteers who pull the
strings of that election stealer who is currently occupying the
whitehouse. That is, of course, the part of the profits that is not
going to the middle east to train the next round of pilots to fly
airliners into skyscrapers.

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"Can you say 'feel like sh.t?'
Yeah, maybe sometimes I do feel like sh.t.
I ain't happy 'bout it,
but I'd rather feel like sh.t than be full of sh.t!"
--Suicidal Tendencies

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