Chicago’s gas prices. (Credit: CBS)
UPDATED 04/25/11 9:14 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) — The price for a gallon of gasoline in Chicago is now the highest in the nation.
According to the Lundberg survey, the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in Chicago now stands at $4.27–a 12 cent increase in the past two weeks. And that’s just the average. Several stations in Chicago were selling gasoline for between $4.60 and $4.70 a gallon, according to chicagogasprices.com.
The highest prices Monday morning were found at two gas stations close to highway entrances. At the Citgo station at 1004 S. Desplaines St., near the Taylor Street and Roosevelt Road entrances to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and the BP station at 755 W. Lawrence Ave. near that street’s entrance to Lake Shore Drive, the price was $4.69 per gallon.
By comparison to all that, the national average is $3.88.
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“I just put in whatever I think is going to be enough to get me through the week,” Gloria Selgado of Chicago told CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov. “That’s it.”
For Selgado, that rings up to about $130 every seven days — forcing her to consider cutting back on her driving.
“I have to think about it twice, to go anywhere I have to think about these things,” she said.
For Scott Jacobs of Park Ridge, cutting back on other expenses, such as long summer trips, is the only way to budget the steep price of driving in Chicago. He and his family will stay closer to home for their getaway.
“We love to camp, but we’ll probably just pull in our camp zones a little bit. There’s a lot of great camping in, you know, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin,” Jacobs said.
Even younger drivers say they’re making a social sacrifice.
“I can’t go out as much,” one young woman said, “and then I have to ask my parents for money sometimes.”
Para Sivagura drove to Chicago from Toronto for an extended weekend trip. She was shocked at spending $300 just to get to Chicago, and she was nervous about how much it would cost to get back home.
“People can’t afford to drive on the street,” Sivagura said. “Pay-wise is not that much. Cost of living is higher and higher.”
Across the border in Northwest Indiana, where prices are historically 25 to 30 cents a gallon cheaper, it’s nearly impossible to find a gallon below $4. Higher state and county taxes in Illinois account for the cost difference over the border.
The national average now stands at $3.88—with no signs of a reversal anytime soon.
The highest prices are normally seen in California. In San Francisco, which has held the most expensive title in the past, the average is $4.22.
That makes $5 a gallon in Chicago a very real possibility. And some experts say, if conditions are right, drivers could be paying $6 before the year is out.
Commodities analyst Richard Hastings says don’t look for any relief soon.
“This year, you get more than $4 a gallon … all the way through until September,” he says.
That may be the optimistic view. If supply disruptions occur, look out.
“That could easily send prices at the pump slightly above $6 a gallon, and then they would start to come back down after that,” Hastings says. “But we could see an amazing spike.”
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Ah, the price of keeping county and city employees voting for the democratic party.
April 24, 2011 at 8:24 pm
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” ~ H. L. Mencken — http://911essentials.com
April 25, 2011 at 1:00 am
I’m sorry, but that if FUNNY!
April 25, 2011 at 4:31 am
“The only thing unlimited in the Universe is human stupidity.” ~ Albert Einstein
April 25, 2011 at 8:22 am
I read in the Orlando Sentinal that there is a gas station near the airport. They charge $5.78-per gal.
When you turn a rental car in an near-to -impossible-to – find gast station, chances it will be a loooong away from the airport.
To make matters worse, the rental people will charge you $20.00 + to top it off !
Just like LAX. Last time I filled up before I did so 15-miles away. and I had to go down town to do so. NO stations near most airports.
April 25, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Newark, NJ really load the fees onto a rental car. I’m planning a trip to Jersey through Newark, I’ll bus to central Jersey and rent a car. It’s half the price..
April 25, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Obviously, they are neglecting California where the Gas prices are higher than Chicago.
April 25, 2011 at 6:05 pm
The extra taxes in Chicago and Crook county help to keep away all those potholes. You must have not noticed but the government has said that they fixed all them potholes. Now if you can’t trust them Crook county and Chicago politicians, who can you trust ??????
April 25, 2011 at 7:35 am
Kalifornia politicians.
April 25, 2011 at 8:25 am
chicago has to pay for the corruption somehow.
April 25, 2011 at 7:47 am
COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A NICER CITY.
April 25, 2011 at 10:01 am
just in time for Rahm to take over….. chickens coming home to roost
April 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Well… as usual… the “lame-stream media” is reflecting their abject ignorance / political agendas regarding the current prices of oil and gasoline.
“So… what else is new?”
Some facts…
… Osama Obama is virtually singularly responsible for the high price of oil and gasoline, right now – since he could significantly reduce the price of both by:
1. Increasing / expanding the number of drilling permits – both off-shore and on-shore… BUT… he’s done just the opposite.
2. Increasing / expanding the number of oil shale / oil sands recovery permits… BUT… he’s done just the opposite.
3. Suspending the special gasoline formulations of the various states, to specify just one formulation for this year. Every summer we have distribution problems, because the pipelines do not have sufficient capacity to distribute sufficient formulations to all areas simultaneously – resulting in temporary shortages in some markets, and temporarily high prices in those markets.
4. Increasing / expanding the number of permits for new refineries and expansions of existing refineries… and, if required… providing incentives for such construction / expansion.
5. Increasing / expanding the number of permits for new nuclear power plants.
6. Providing incentives for utilities and other power generators to construct new natural gas power plants.
7. Providing permits and incentives for all fleet vehicles to be converted to LNG fuel.
8. Providing permits and incentives for fuel distributors to install new LNG fuel pumps.
9. Issuing new regulations to control futures trading / speculation by “investment speculators” – increasing margin requirements to a minimum of 50% of the trade, and permitting only bulk oil / gasoline producers and purchasers to trade the futures contracts, requiring sellers to deliver the commodity and buyers to take delivery of the commodity – prohibiting anyone else from trading such futures… and… placing sanctions on any nation / exchange, which does not adopt the same regulations; and imposing substantial fines and penalties and criminal penalties against those who violate those regulations (both traders, their firms, and the exchanges).
Of course, these actions would have an immediate impact on the prices of oil and gasoline – resulting only from the psychological effects, though the actual energy supplies would increase over months and years.
Regardless… if the “lame-stream media” were being honest, they would report all of this… plus… they’d report that the current price of gasoline is at the same level as it was when oil was selling for ~$150 / barrel… yet… it’s only selling at $112 / barrel.
Can they possibly be that stupid?
Most yes… but… not all!
April 25, 2011 at 11:21 am
OBAMA, changes in GAS prices you can believe in
April 25, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Nice thought, but…:
1. We don’t have an oil shortage so increased drilling isn’t the answer.
2. Oil quality from the off-shore wells etc. is not near the quality we get so you might as well go by a bicycle
3. There are 535 other people (who we elect) that tell Obama what to do so it’s not all his fault
4. The feds don’t determine where new power plants go, it’s up to states and their voters
5. Oil is a business, just like Walmart (refer back to number 2 about buying a bicycle..preferably not from Walmart :) )
I dont like spending double what I used to to fill up my tank either.. but if you want to make a change then stand up and do something about it rather than complain about what isn’t working :)
April 25, 2011 at 1:33 pm
BEFORE POSTING DO YOUR HOMEWORK! ORLANDO, FLORIDA REGULAR GAS $5.69 PER GALLON.
April 25, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Midwest opinion nailed this one on the head.
OP- drinking the GOP koolaide a bit deep, eh?
April 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Good! I hope it stays at least $4.50 or $5. Hope and change baby, Hope and change!!! Keeps them 22 inch wheel cars off da road and no moe raps musik. lol
April 25, 2011 at 1:21 pm
This has a lot to do with Obama Pelosi Reid’s lunatic enviro whackadoo radical left wing anti capitalist socialist energy policies. If these socialists would simply announce that they were going to let us Drill for oil in the US, offshore & Alaska oil prices would drop $30 a barrel overnight.
April 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Chicago: it was you who first put the “Organizer in Chief” in public office, then foisted him on the rest of us. It’s largely his policies that are causing this rise in prices (which he was on record favoring even before the election.)
Suck it up! YOU DESERVE THIS!
April 25, 2011 at 1:52 pm
My sentiments exactly LOVE this post!
April 25, 2011 at 2:33 pm
We need some real leadership to clean up this mess Palin/Quail 2012!!
April 25, 2011 at 4:16 pm
You have to pay for that corruption some how…raising taxes would make them look too bad…
April 25, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Poetic justice:
Chicago gave us the Obama Regime and its War on Energy Production.
The illegal “Energy Czar” says he wants $10 a gallon.
April 25, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Hopefully Chicago inhabitants will think twice before they vote for Obama again!
April 25, 2011 at 5:40 pm
“OMG’ !!!!!! There is justice left in this country !!!!! The yankees gave us Obamination, and now they are all about to have to ride bicycles thanks to “Barry’. What did Paul Harvey say it would be like? Didn’t he describe it this way? “Bearded bicyclists with BO’,,, “ROTFMLAO’ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 5:42 pm
We live in Truckee, CA and our price is $4.49 for regular. Also – I thought that Orlando, FL was the highest at $5.69 for regular.
April 24, 2011 at 8:32 pm
That was just one station
April 24, 2011 at 9:05 pm
one mentioned citgo, their owned by mr hugo chavez the communist, they should be banished from this country.
April 25, 2011 at 7:49 am
Ban Citgo and Hugo and thousands of seniors will freeze to death. Better to ban usury and private central banking.
April 25, 2011 at 10:33 am
Thanks for the change, Obama
April 24, 2011 at 8:36 pm
All we have left is pocket change
April 24, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Obama’s banned oul drilling here, as well as coal mining permits in 3 States….and has loaned BILLIONS to several foreign countries so they can drill & build refineries!
Obama’s motto is: Drill baby, drill…just not HERE! That’s his transfer of wealth, from us to foreigners!
2012 Anyone but Obama!
April 24, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Remember a couple of years ago when Feinstein and Boxer here in Calif have no problems drilling off shore, Just drill where there is no oil…
April 25, 2011 at 7:34 am
The Usurper-In-Chief has ordered an investigation.
When will we investigate HIM, as why he has a CONNECTICUT SSN?!
Details – http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/another_look_at_obamas.htm
April 25, 2011 at 7:16 am
Chicago doesn’t mind.
April 24, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Chicago doesn’t mind because Chicago is pretty ignorant. I’ve got former in-laws living there, have made a couple trips, this statement of my findings IS based on observations, not just emotion.
Plus, they talk with strange accent.
I just paid $4.17/gal regular earlier today, here in SoCal (Garden Grove, CA to be precise)
April 25, 2011 at 1:42 am
Hey-don’t knock the accent. Even my now-fellow Texans think that my accent is kind of cute. What they really like though is my politics…I’m a conserva-tarian Tea Party activist.
April 25, 2011 at 1:54 am
rahm emanual is paying back his pals for election fraud. you fools voted for this buffoon toe dancing twit now live with him.
April 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Speedy: They will re-elect him and anybody like him and like obumbla. Most corrupt city in America for 100 years
April 25, 2011 at 7:38 am
You guys demand social gas formulation, meaning refineries have to make a social product run just for you. That leads to scarcity and higher prices. Thank your local politicians.
April 24, 2011 at 8:44 pm
and to witt they are burning corn to placate to IOWA farmers so not only is gasoline going higher but cost of everything because of transportation of goods and of course our food. Why are we burning our food? Hello dumb politicians who want Iowan delegates to vote for their party for POTUS
April 24, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Silly you. You only burn a part of corn, the rest is fed as animal feed. The feed is actually cheaper in some places than the whole grain corn. Oh, and by the way, Illinois is the third largest ethanol producer in the country. It’s a darned shame I am paying $2.79 for E-85.
April 25, 2011 at 3:53 am
and is is cattle coorn, not human corn: stupid
April 25, 2011 at 4:59 am
Bruce Stein – Actually cattle corn is a different grade of corn than what humans consume. Bragging about using E-85, Ken In Iowa, without realizing that those vehichles (using E-85) show greater wear and tear on the engines and a failure rate of almost 70% after only 80k miles means you will, on average replace your car engine within 6-7 years and the resale value of an E-85 vehichle versus a regular gas engine of the same year and make is about 30% lower.
April 25, 2011 at 6:32 am
I wouldn’t be so fast calling someone “stoopid” re corn types…have to go with dcarter on this one.
For the most part corn is corn. While there is “sweet corn” for us off the cob eaters. “Field corn” which is what you typically see growing can be used for cereal, bread, ethanol, cattle feed or other uses.
So we are burning our food as ethanol.
April 25, 2011 at 7:19 am
Actually, they’re growing more gas-corn, meaning they’re growing less of other feed stocks and cotton. In the end, less of everything else growing raises food and clothing prices. And of course, when you take hay fields and convert to corn fields, you get greater run off’s to streams, which feed to rivers, which in the end increases water pollution with all those chemicals they spray on corn crops. And of course, you get more dirt blowing around in the air from exposed earth for all those new corn fields……..
April 25, 2011 at 7:20 am
Why not mention the percentage of the price that is federal, state and local taxes? Just a suggestion.
April 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Wrong…..Hawaii and Alaska have the highest prices.
April 24, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Don’t you know? Ignorant mainlanders/lower 48ers routinely treat you as foreigners. Of course, your prices must be higher.
April 25, 2011 at 5:03 am
Actually here in Anchorage Alaksa we are paying $4.11 a gallon. So Alaska doesn’t have a higher gas price. The National Gas Prices do not include Alaska or Hawaii because we are not part of the Lower 48.
April 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm
paid $4.89/gallon for regular yesterday here on Maui.
April 25, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Ofumduck. He the man. Buck up and shell out that dough for gas. Otherwise. You might waste your $$$ on food or other necessities.
Get with the green. Windmill your arse to work.
Vote change and hope.
Yes we con.
Vote Democratic.
April 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Now there’s a REAL surprise. Or not…
Y’all keep on brewin’ that fresh hot black tea, though. It looks so quaint dribblin’ down your chin like that.
April 24, 2011 at 9:06 pm
We deserve it-by voting for liberals.
April 24, 2011 at 9:07 pm
Chicagoan snowbirding in Northern Palm Beach County where gas prices for regular are $4.42 at the Mobile on Indiantown Rd, $4.72 for regular unleaded, and $4.96 for premium unleaded TONIGHT. Gas has been above $4 here since March.
April 24, 2011 at 9:08 pm
We are still paying about $3.52 for regular in the metro Houston area. We also have no state income tax and you can still buy 3,000 sf houses with in great shape on a golf course for about $200k. A gallon of milk only costs $3.50, a loaf of bread is only $1.60 and a pound of Boar’s Head Ham is $6.99 a pound.
With all of these low prices, one has to ask how we do it in Texas…the answer is simple…we got rid of the unions and the democrats.
April 25, 2011 at 6:38 am
James: How is the Prop. Taxes there? Are they consistent? or are they set year by year by the counties and or cities?
April 25, 2011 at 8:08 am
James: sent me an e-mail.
exprtshooter@yahoo.com
April 25, 2011 at 8:09 am
we can’t have obama and his henchmen run this country for 4 more years. you think it’s bad now wait till he gets relected. donald trump, please run for president.
April 24, 2011 at 9:09 pm
“We Are The Birthers We’ve Been Waiting For” – http://www.BirtherReport.com
April 25, 2011 at 7:28 am
Obama said he wanted gas at $5.00 – $6.00 and higher when he was trying to be the oval office occupier.
This was his plan all along, now he is blaming everyone else but himself.
He sucks
April 24, 2011 at 9:09 pm
The commodity speculators are the single factor in the rising prices. This is not a supply and demand issue (supplies are relatively high). So much cheap money (thank you Chairman Bernacke) is pouring into the commodities markets that almost every commodity is at an all-time high. The Fed rate needs to rise and regulators need to step up or we will see $5.00 a gallon at a time of relative small demand.
April 24, 2011 at 9:23 pm
GS: Wrong… there is a buyer for every seller. The biggest reason of late is because the US $ is collapsing and the price of oil goes up when US$ goes down. Tell Obama and his administration to stop driving dollar down and debt up with QE2 monetizing our debt. Another reason is demand in China and India and of course unrest in Middle East.
April 24, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Do you realize how many tankers are floating in the oceans full of crude with no where to go??? What about the nearly 100 years worth of oil under the ground controlled by the US??? Running out? Don’t think so. Quit listening to Al Gore, he knows NOTHING. We need to drill and be done with the rest of the world for fuel.
April 25, 2011 at 1:59 am
Totally agree with GS. Here in the UK on the South Coast we have dozens of tankers moored waiting for the price to rise. Speculators are a major cause of rising prices.
April 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Serves you Chitcago freaks right for inflicting POSident Obankrupt on the nation.
April 24, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Just filled my 28 gallon tank for $348 a gallon in Kenner, Louisiana. Out side of New Orleans. On the west bank of New Orleans I paid $358 per gallon last week. As the price of gas goes up so do the taxes on each gallon. Does anyone know where this money goes?
April 24, 2011 at 9:46 pm
most of it is state and fedl taxes they use to separate it so you could see how much was for gas and taxes when the taxes were higher than gasoline they started making gas pumps which only showed total cost.
April 24, 2011 at 9:57 pm
In Louisiana there is a flat rate of .20 cents per gallon, so there isn’t an increase regardless of the price of gasoline.However, other states have different % of taxing gasoline.Again, Louisiana has a flat rate per gallon so the taxes do not go up with the increase of gas.
April 25, 2011 at 10:32 am
Well well, its not like the human offal that live in $#itcago do not deserve this but it would be better if all the speculators were on the other side of the turf!
April 24, 2011 at 9:52 pm
When will Americans put 2 and 2 together and realize that the environmental wackos have had a unholy alliance with socialist democrats for 30 years + and have allowed Greenpeace etc to hijack our energy policy? Democrats say we can’t solve it over night it would take 10 years bla bla. Well it was 10 yrs ago when Clinton killed drilling in ANWR Alaska! Thanks Democrats and WE THE PEOPLE are tired of your hoax global warming and your socialist/marxist spread the wealth Keynesian policies which kill our economy and jobs~! November 2012 please people stop voting for (D) just because mommy and daddy did!
April 24, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Chicago is the city that works.
April 24, 2011 at 9:59 pm
hybrids looking pretty good right now
April 24, 2011 at 10:10 pm
hybrids are great if you only count your fuel costs. The gotcha is the $3600 worth of batteries you have to replace every 5 or 6 years. My mom just had hers replaced and it kind of drives up the cost per mile average. Great theory though.
April 25, 2011 at 7:39 am
Until you have to pay your power, electricity bill stupid!
April 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm
4 Dollars a Gallon..
THANKSABUNCH, BARACK.
April 24, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Remember the government makes more profit on a gallon of gas than the oil companies, and they don’t produce a thing. What a bunch of crooks.
April 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm
We left the Chicago So. Burbs for Texas 2 weeks ago.
Gas in the Lubbock area is around 3.60 a gallon. Some places are a little lower/higher. It’s still better than when we lived in Cook County.
April 24, 2011 at 10:29 pm
The americans are stupid tell the goverment to stop sending aid to the middle east countrys and sell are goods to them for 500% mark up for food and materials you see the change.
April 24, 2011 at 10:40 pm
$3.51 in Phoenix, AZ
April 24, 2011 at 10:40 pm
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fivetimesone – spoken like a true democrat. Stop watching Fox news but don’t give a reason as to why. You need to pay $10.00 a gallon so you can learn a stiff lesson as to what Saurman and his union orcs are doing to everyone’s pocket book.
April 25, 2011 at 12:08 am
Well, Illinois and Chicago ARE the dumbest most corrupt worthless State and City in the Nation, they SHOULD EAT IT first and worst.
How’s that Hope and Change thing workin out for ya?!
Morons.
April 25, 2011 at 12:24 am
yeah the $ 5.69 in orlando was in or very close to the Airport
So they scored off the turistr returingr there rentals
April 25, 2011 at 12:26 am
I paid $5.29 a gallon on Friday in Big Sur, California.
April 25, 2011 at 12:29 am
YOU MEAN MEXIFORNIA?
April 25, 2011 at 11:30 am
Keep voting for the Democrats. Left coast you get what you deserve!!
April 25, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I hope gas hits $6.00/gal and stays there. I love seeing the expressions on all the
nimwits who own SUVs as they fill them up.
hahahahahaha
April 25, 2011 at 1:45 am
awesome your not, unless awesome idiot coms to mind. you have to be a knuckle dragging liberal. high gas prices hurt everyone twit. how often does your mom let you out of the basement, hahahahhahahaha
April 25, 2011 at 8:13 am
Dude,
Check your spelling, grammar, and punctuation before you belittle yourself with your inane comments. Maybe you’re just in pain from filling up your 10mpg SUV.
April 26, 2011 at 2:18 am
Gas prices donot affect you at the pump, they affect your grocery prices. You think farmers farm on nothing? do you think truckers drive with nothing? What about all of the products that use oil/gas for production? All of these extra costs will be sent down to the people. They will be paying the price in higher food prices, higher clothing prices, higher everything.
Awsome. I will just have to make the assumption you are just ignorant about the entire spectrum and how it will affect the American people – and oh unless you live out of country, it will affect you and your family too.
April 25, 2011 at 9:00 am
Dis: No no no no, Those costs are absorbed by the company just like Billary said the wind fall profit tax will levied upon the “evil” Corporations…. They would never think of passing those higher taxes to the consumer… Would they??? Well if they do then the Fed’s would have to tax them more for that. LOL LOL
April 25, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Hey awesome maybe one of those big 18 wheelers that deliver food to the grocery store will run you and your idiotic hybrid hug the tree and mother earth car off the friggin highway. Stay home next election stupid!
April 25, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Notice how Awesome was not awesome enough to respond to everyone when we pointed out that those raising gas prices come out of his pocket, even if he rides a bike. Why? Because oil is used in shipping things you like to buy, but not only that, it’s also used to produce goods you use everday, such as plastics.
So enjoy that 6.00/gallon gas, and I hope you don’t complain when the price of your Cheerios and CoCoPuffs become too expensive for your mom to buy for you anymore.
April 27, 2011 at 9:47 pm
You news orgs on the mainland always leave out Hawaii. Of course I guess Chicago is the center of the universe. In the county of Kauai the cheapest I could find was Cosco at $4.45 a gallon.
April 25, 2011 at 2:38 am
I will preface this by saying that I’m an independent so am not partisan. You think that you have something important to say here? You offered absolutely nothing. You wasted 200 words not supporting any point of view, & I wasted reading this thinking that you might get to some critical thinking. Yes, it’s sad when people don’t support their statements with facts. For that matter, you had no statement. Yes, people like this should grow up.
April 25, 2011 at 2:54 am
You spit or swallow when you be suckin on Obama?
April 25, 2011 at 10:57 am
Obama needs a new campaign slogan to get elected..
How about….
Drill Baby, Drill !!!!!!!!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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The home town of the cause of high gas prices deserves the record.
It’s time to drill here and drill now. Drill in Anwar. Drill in the gulf. Drill everywhere.
Some fools think it only affects SUV owners but the high gas prices will get everybody in the form of higher food and commodities prices.
Next time lets vote for a “change” for the better instead.
April 25, 2011 at 5:23 am
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As the oil goes away there will be endless blame, but little interest in admitting that oil was not infinite and we used it up.
Drill in the Gulf? That’s been happening since the 1960s. Why do you think BP was drilling in five thousand feet of water — because they wanted to? The reality is the “low hanging fruit” is gone and they’re going after the difficult, expensive oil.
The oil age started in Pennsylvania but there’s not any drilling there any more, since the oil that was there is long gone.
I didn’t vote for Obama or McCain, two peas in a pod from my perspective. Liars for Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex.
Alaska Pipeline oil “peaked” in 1988, 23 years ago. It’s about a third of the flow now than it was at the peak. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is maybe 10 percent of what was at Prudhoe Bay, it’s an afterthought on the downslope.
It’s hard for most SUV drivers to understand that the Earth is not getting any bigger and that we are past the limits to growth. Sadly, Peak Denial is probably decades in the future.
April 25, 2011 at 5:39 am
The reason BP has to drill in deep water is because the government won’ let drilling proceed in the shallower ares. Plenty of oil in the Gulf.
April 25, 2011 at 8:31 am
I heard a lady on NPR talk about the high gas prices and high unemployment and add that Obama has no control over that. I bet she would have blamed Bush for that if he were president. Obama’s regulations on businesses do have an effect on both issues.
April 25, 2011 at 5:49 am
And printing money out of thin air on Obama’s printing presses has nothing to do with rising prices, and people spending more funny-money on gas and less on goods/services has nothing do with the number of people employeed at small businesses…… And yes, all those regulations…… Yep – hopenchange NPR, and you’re lovin it!
April 25, 2011 at 7:30 am
your right mike, its only the presidents fault when its a republician.
April 25, 2011 at 8:19 am
Chicago also has the highest sales tax. And the state fuel tax boosts gas prices. All these high taxes in Illinois you must surely have a balanced budget right?
April 25, 2011 at 5:58 am
This has everything to do with the Federal Reserve systematically destroying our dollar! They charge Banks ZERO percent interest and keep printing TRILLIONS of dollars Hell Bent on creating INFLATION to make the rich even RICHER, which has been a success!
April 25, 2011 at 6:05 am
In the UK it is £6.11 per gallon…….that’s $10.09…! you people are not living in the real world
April 25, 2011 at 6:20 am
Waaaaaaaa!!
April 25, 2011 at 12:42 pm
The fact is that the Federal Reserve is the culprit . Ever since it’s inception in 1913 the country has seen 1000% inflation . That is right 1000%. With it’s latest printing of $600 billion , quantitative easing (QE2) , which will run out in June , QE3 will be announced and when that happens gas prices are expected to rise to $6-7 gallon , along with food etc etc. The politicians and their pundits are sideshows .
April 25, 2011 at 6:24 am
April 25, 2011 at 7:20 am
Obama’s energy policy, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
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April 25, 2011 at 7:42 am
HANK…..I AGRFEE WITH YOU ON ALL POINTS….EVERY ONE SHOULD REQUIRE THEIR CONGRESS PERSON TO CALL FOR AND SUPpORT IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT OF THE TOTAL OBOMA ADMINISTRATION, THE CABINET, CZRS, PARTY HEADS AND DEPT HEADS…..GET IT DONE TODAY….NOT AFTER THE NEXT ELECTIONS.
April 25, 2011 at 8:15 am
How’s all that “Hope & Change” working out for you people?
April 25, 2011 at 7:49 am
HELLO!!!!! WHY SHOULD POLITIANS CARE….??? THEY DO NOT PAY FOR THERE GAS…..GET KICKBACKS THROUGH CAMPAIGNS ETC AND OBOMA WILL GET HIS $ 400,000.00 PER YEAR FOR LIFE AFTER HIS ONE TERM ROLL AS PRESIDENT. OH!!! AND DO NT FORGET ALL THE OTHER PERTS HE AND HIS FAMIL WILL GET IN ADDITION.
NO PRESIDNET SHOULD GET ANYTHING MORE THAN SOCIAL SECURITY AFTER SERVING AS A PRESIDNET LIKE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
April 25, 2011 at 7:55 am
JF: I agree….. No Secret Service… Who would want to kill an ex President???
April 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm
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impeach IMPEACH ….IMPEACH THEM ALL THEN DRILL DRILL DRILL AND STOP UTILIZING CORN FOR GAS INSTEAD OF FOOD!!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 8:06 am
Wow, you really don’t understand do you? Once the starch is removed from corn, the byproduct is fed to animals. It replaces whole grain corn. Most corn raised in the U.S. is not for you plate (only 10% is direct food – corn chips, corn syrup, corn oil, booze), 42% of it is for animal feed. We export nearly 17%, the rest for chemicals, fabric, and such. Ethanol consumes 20.8% of our crop, with about 10% as surplus.
Raw materials in food account for such a small part of the cost of a retail item, usually 19¢ of every retail food dollar. So there is no basis at all to blame commodity prices since they account for such a small percentage.
The “food for fuel” idea is a wives tale, told over and over and over again, til people think it is the truth. In reality, if one looks, they will find there is no reasonable basis for such an idea.
April 25, 2011 at 9:12 am
It is you who dont understand. Ethanol has a negative energy ratio, meaning it takes more energy to make it than you get from it. Also, Ethanol is very damaging to gasoline engines. Plus, ethanol production is largely subsidized by government, and could not stand by itself in the free market.
April 25, 2011 at 9:28 am
as forest said, stupid is as stupid does, fivetime once again you prove the point. .the real reason gas is so high and its plainly visible, its bush and his oil cronies making hugh profits for themselves..OH WAIT. thats what the liberals said 5 yrs ago. dont hear to much knashing of teeth from them this time around.
for the little people out there that obama care deeply about, big oil is one of his biggest if not the big contributor to his relection campaign.
April 25, 2011 at 8:08 am
Sorry folks. My son forgot his med’s and is starting to rant about how good the president is. He has a really low IQ and can’t formulate coherent thoughts een when he’s on his medication. I’ll bolck access to this website so he doesn’t bother you again.
April 25, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Try a few doses of Vick’d Ny-Quil…
Good luck, and thanks for being a responsible parent…
April 25, 2011 at 10:25 pm
…and yet you look down at these guys NEVER stating your reasoning for slamming them, or FOX or …? By the way, we ARE a team…TEAM AMERICA!!
Right now we are getting our COLLECTIVE butts kicked because our “quarterback” is an inexperienced, narcissistic socialist-elitist. FACT. TEAM AMERICA! %%^^^ YEAH!!!
April 25, 2011 at 8:08 am
YOU ALL VOTED THIS PRESIDENT INTO OFFICE….NOW IT IS YOUR RESPOINSIB ILITY TO IMPEACH HIM BEFPRE HE DOES AN MORE DESTROCTION TO THE USA!!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 8:09 am
People of great state of Illinois stay where you are and don’t come to NH and pollute our free way of life. Keep your darn Democrats there while we keep our Republicans here. If you do have to move – go to NY or CA or MI.
April 25, 2011 at 8:18 am
Im proud to be a NH Libertarian… but its sad that the free-market way of doing things is getting squeezed out by these tree hugging wackos in office that think high energy prices are good for America. BTW Jeane Shaheen needs to leave office hehe.
April 25, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Rahm’s doing his job … and he’s only Mayor-elect. Just wait unitl he’s sworn in to office … $10.00 / gallon, no problem.
April 25, 2011 at 8:38 am
He Chicago, love’n that hope and change?
April 25, 2011 at 8:57 am
And the people of that area still keep putting the same political party in year after Year!
You deserve what you get!
April 25, 2011 at 9:03 am
Wonder when Chicagoans will grow some brains and quit re-electing criminals……hey, isn’t Obama’s 2012 campaign headquarters gonna be here again?
April 25, 2011 at 9:11 am
Stoopid is as stoopid does……
April 25, 2011 at 9:12 am
lol it’s Bush’s fault! Liberal morons just never let up; it is almost humorous now!
April 25, 2011 at 9:17 am
Could happen to a better bunch of corrupt, ignorant, slimeballs. Elections have consequences. Reap it democrats, reap it.
April 25, 2011 at 9:20 am
How’s that “hope and change” working out for you? America has more oil than Saudi Arabia but in this Obamanation we aren’t allowed to go after it. Get ready for $5.50 a gallon very soon, Illinois.
April 25, 2011 at 9:23 am
Time to dust off the bicycle and walking shoes. As I saw somewhere, tell the Arabs whom we send food to, 1 bushel of wheat = 1 barrel of oil. See if they like $110 bushels.
April 25, 2011 at 9:35 am
Hey, if you weren’t driving the old car that only get ’8 miles per gallon’, you wouldn’t have a problems. Oh and by the was, ‘the problem isn’t going away anytime soon.’
April 25, 2011 at 9:38 am
Have you noticed that the vast majority of Democrats have brown eyes and are receiving Welfare and food stamps?The majority of their children are born out of wedlock and the women couldn’t tell you who was the father.
April 25, 2011 at 9:43 am
Chicago deserves the highest gas prices in AMERICA. WE got Barack from Chicago, so goes it.
He is suppressing AMERICAN oil production, so higher prices are a result.
CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, except it is not fast enough.
April 25, 2011 at 9:46 am
It is only right that the city that spawned the dicatator should suffer the effects of his “transformation of America”….enjoy!
April 25, 2011 at 9:46 am
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I guess no one ever travels north of San Francisco. Up here in the Eureka-Crescent City area, the average price of a gallon of regular is $4.37 a gallon — 10 cents higher than Chiciago. But, I guess we’re just not newsworthy. If you go across the northern border to Oregon, gas is about seventy to seventy-five cents a gallon cheaper AND they pump it for you per state law in Oregon. The difference is no sales tax in Oregon, and no special “California” formulation.
April 25, 2011 at 9:58 am
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Someone needs to dig out the girl from the Obama rally in ’08 talking about how she’s not going to have to worry about paying for her house or putting gas in her car, and then just LOOP it. When you sell your soul, your soul usually gets resold.
April 25, 2011 at 10:08 am
I love to hear Obama tell the stupid people that voted for him how he is going to investigate the oil companies because of the high gas prices.It’s not the oil companies or spectulators driving up the price of gas.On November the 3rd, the day after the election the dollar was devalued by the feds monitizing the debt.In 1971 Henry Kissinger, set up OPEC with the guarantee that the selling of oil would be based on the dollar and they would have to buy a portion of our national debt.Since our dollar was devalued the day after the Nov.2, 2010 elections,oil which is based on the dollar automatically will cost more as will everything made or transported by oil.So the increase in gas and food prices have more to do with Washington spending and devaluation of our money supply than anything to do with oil companies.Again, nothing will be found through investigation linking the increase of gasoline to the oil companies.By the way, blaming George Bush is getting a little old.
April 25, 2011 at 10:10 am
This is really terrible to see. How are we gona pay the mortgage?
April 25, 2011 at 10:15 am
Has anyone stopped to thing the rising gas prices may actually be directly related to Obama shutting down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?
April 25, 2011 at 10:34 am
Chicago fools! You elected Obama, and more recently Rahm Immanuel. You are getting exactly what you asked for.
April 25, 2011 at 10:40 am
I still be waitin for my free car an free house. Why gas be so high? Hopless chains.
April 25, 2011 at 10:54 am
And don’t forget Chicago,your favorite son Obummer says, “there’s nothing we can do about it” Well you could buy an Electic car which wouldn’t get you acrossed town before it would quit running. Hey you voted him,—–now live with it.
April 25, 2011 at 10:55 am
Finger pointing Obama the man child, habitual liar, massive hypocrite.
April 25, 2011 at 10:59 am
When are they gona build electric cars, solar pawered busses, and trucks and vans that run with water. We need these types of vehicles real fast and soon enouhg. Believe us all…. if these vehicles are put in the market.. they will sell like hot cakes and there will be more of them for export. Millions of people around the world are waiting for these cars tomo along and we certainly will be more than happy to buy them. No more dependence on oil and pollution.
Please make this happen soon…..
April 25, 2011 at 11:00 am
Hey Chicago—How’s that hope and change working for you!!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 11:05 am
Hehehehe HOPE AND CHANGE!
April 25, 2011 at 11:05 am
Hope and Change = You hope you will some get change from a $5 bill when you buy a gallon of gas.
April 25, 2011 at 11:38 am
I hope it goes to $6.50 a gallon, the price that one of Obama’s energy czars indicated they would like back in 2008. It’ll serve all of those Obama voters for making such an uninformed, emotional vote back in 2008.
April 25, 2011 at 11:42 am
Here’s a little reality. Here in California one of our clients is a major wholesale dairy foods distributor. They run 230 Mack “refrigerated” Trucks daily to 20 California Counties. This morning we were notified that management has let go 150 drivers and 260 warehouse workers. As this is the largest refrigerated trucking firm in California we are now adding new numbers that indicate an increase of 8% across the board effective immediately. This cost will now be passed through the store then onto you the consumer. This is the first of 3 price increases contemplated for the third and fourth quarter of this year and is one of the reasons for price of food increases.
I’m sick to my stomach for these folks laid off as we’re preparing their last checks and their after employment COBRA insurance paperwork. Most of the employees have families but there ya go America.
April 25, 2011 at 11:42 am
i think they were counting on nobody outside chicago reading this…my gas is higher than that too.
April 25, 2011 at 11:44 am
I hope you Chicago tools pay thirty bucks a gallon before its all said and done. Thanks for hoisting your narcissistic, Marxist, street hustler on the rest of us, you imbeciles.
April 25, 2011 at 11:54 am
hmmm. I never heard who obama was working for- as in, who paid him, to be the ‘community organizer’ which is the other word for communist agitator. But- I must say, that considering the fact that had anyone bashed a communist coming to their church to organize and racist war prepare, so that it was not walking anywhere else, then, we would not be in this mess. Ergo- chicago should have ninety-five dollar gasoline and I would still say they are not paying enough.
April 25, 2011 at 11:55 am
On President Bush’ last day in office gas was at $1.73 per gallon
In Jan 2007 when Bela Pelosi and Senator Obama took over Congress unemployment was at 4.6 %
Calif , Hawaii and Illinois are the highest , most regulated and taxed ,,,,AND ALL RULED BY DEMOCRATS
April 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm
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When people fill up their tanks and it’s twice as much as it was a year ago, they’re going to look straight at the White House in fury.
April 25, 2011 at 12:53 pm
sorry, Gas lin California is $5.19 http://www.californiagasprices.com/
April 25, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Hey, it’s still free to hop a freight.
April 25, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Increased public unrest – won’t that lead to crime surges and riots?
April 25, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Well I hope all you people that voted for that thing in the White House think about it as you get gas buy groceries. Can’t anyone see what they are doing bring this country to it’s knees then they know they have you. You’ll have to show your papers traveling from New Jersey to New York. We have lost our country now what ae we going to do to get it back????
April 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I hope Chicago stays well above the National Average, consider it a big thanks for Obama, from the rest of us…. idiots.
April 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Looks like the only positive change so far is what you get back from a 5 spot for a gallon of gas.
April 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm
As long as the citizens of Illinois keep voting in these liberal politicians, like Obama and Rahm Emmanuel, to govern they will continue to pay MORE for gasoline, MORE for groceries and MORE in taxes than the rest of us. Here in the Atlanta area I am paying $3.59 per gallon….which is still way too high…but it’s better than Chicago!!
April 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I’m glad that gas prices are highest in Chicago (since that is where Obama and Rahm have come from). Let these prices be a reminder of what happens when the people elect liberals who have no concept of supply/demand (when it comes to gas prices) and who naively continue to believe that “alternate energy” is the answer for everything. If the people in this region are stupid enough to believe in “hope and change”, let them pay for their sins at the pump !
April 25, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Ah, yes! Another reason I am grateful to my employer for moving me from Matteson to southeast Georgia eleven years ago! Although the $3.60 a gallon for regular down here is painful, the price has been stable for the last 2 weeks or so.
April 25, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I don’t know how many of you have heard this story – about two weeks ago a Chevy Volt burned down a guy’s garage, I believe this was in CT. Four days later the car self-ignited again. It wasn’t even on the charger. If this had been a Toyota I’m sure it would been front page news. I can’t help but think that the media were told to bury this story,. Gov’t Motors.
April 25, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Talking about non existance shortages and talking like it make sense to keep the sellers whole when the value of the dollar goes down are the reasons the price of crude goes up. We need to fight fire with fire. This means DO NOT talk about taxing the oil companies more. Instead talk about wild schemes to increase oil supply. Like a rumour that a new chemical dispersant may make all depleted wells suddenly produce again.
April 25, 2011 at 3:11 pm
The guy in the White House is one of yours. Thanks. You get what you deserve.
April 25, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Doen’t anyone ever check the math in these articles? Toronto to Chicago is a 518 miles, for someone to buy gas for 300 dollars (at the high $4.69) for that trip they are getting 8 mpg. It is their own fault that it costs so much. It would cost me about $72 for the same trip in my car that gets 34 mpg.
April 25, 2011 at 3:32 pm
I will happy to pay $10 a gallon if it means we get a new president in 635 days.
April 25, 2011 at 3:35 pm
how’s all that hope and change Chicago.you have no hope and you can’t expect any change back for that gas
April 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Illinois made sure Obama was elected, thanks. 2012 cannot come to fast. The question will the USA still be standing?
Obama has organized the destruction of the USA as his socialist comrades wanted.
April 25, 2011 at 4:01 pm
“You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.”
“Brothers and sisters,” Farrakhan said, “Barack Obama to me, is a herald of the Messiah. Barack Obama is like the trumpet that alerts you something new, something better is on the way.”
Farrakhan points out that the man Nation of Islam followers refer to as “the Saviour,” Fard Muhammad, had a black father and a white mother, just as Obama did.
“A black man with a white mother became a saviour to us,” he said. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.
“Would God allow Barack to be president of a country that has been so racist, so evil in its treatment of Hispanics, native Americans, blacks?” he asked. “Would God do something like that? Yeah. Of course he would. That’s to show you that the stone that the builders rejected has become the headstone of the corner. This is a sign to you. It’s the time of our rise. It’s the time that we should take our place. The future is all about you.”
April 25, 2011 at 4:01 pm
You are insane.
April 25, 2011 at 4:04 pm
This is not my opinion. I am just showing the connections of utter hatred for America that our President is and has been associated with his entire life.
April 25, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Just a quick post here on Barack Obama and his spiritual adviser/former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Obamas have been members of his church in good standing for 20 years; Rev. Wright married them; he baptized their children; he inspired the title for Obama’s The Audacity of Hope; he was serving on Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee, etc.
April 25, 2011 at 4:19 pm
From the eternal sea he rises.
Creating armies on either shore.
Turning man against his brother.
Until man exists no more.
——–The Oman———-
Barack Hussein Obama
April 25, 2011 at 4:29 pm
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Everyone write cook county and city of chicago officials and say you live there. Demand libraries stay open and city pools all of them be open and to do whatever is necessary to keep them open. Raise taxes and especially add a dollar or 2 to the gas tax. Do it! Flood’em with this so they will do it.
April 25, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Oh Good, let all those Obama voters REAP the Hope and Change
April 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Here is some change you can believe in.
White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.
The White House . . . did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day. Likewise, the president’s weekend address mentioned neither Good Friday or Easter.
April 25, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Kim: And the White House had the “Easter” Egg hunt on the day after Easter… Go Figure
April 25, 2011 at 6:23 pm
don’t cry, don’t complain. you wanted the socialists and democrats in charge of your city, and you keep voting for the same people time and time again. You deserve your misery. now wallow in your crime infested city of Chi-Congo.
April 25, 2011 at 4:53 pm
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How could the “Chosen One” let gas prices get out of hand in his adopted city. Don’t worry, help in on the way . . . 2012!!!!
April 25, 2011 at 5:50 pm
About June of 2012 we will see a flurry of activity on the energy front. Obama will suddenly determine that we need to allow all kinds of drilling, release of oil from the National Reserve etc., all designed to show us how much he feels our pain. Just before the election. If the American people fall for it then there is no hope for this Nation.
April 25, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Obama is drilling for Oil………in Brazil1
OBAMA GAVE THEM 200 BLLIION OF OUR CASH TO DRILL FOR OIL
______TRUMP_____BACHMAN_______2012!
April 25, 2011 at 6:19 pm
We’re paying $5.70 a gallon in Australia.
April 25, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Christopher…Australia does not have the HUGE oil, coal and natural gas reserves the US does. I’ve seen estimates that the US has more than double the amount of oil reserves than the entire Middle East….70-100 years worth of oil. Not to mention vast natural gas and coal reserves. The reason why the US is facing $5 per gallon gas is because liberal politicians will not allow us to harvest this rich bounty. These reserves would create tens of thousands of new jobs, create billions of dollars in new tax revenues and allow us to become more energy independent….it would also give us the time to develop renewable resources and the infrastructure needed to make it a reality. Once we vote out Obama in 2012, all this has a chance to come true!!
April 25, 2011 at 7:10 pm
The biggest reason for the gas increases is that we keep devaluing the dollar. second OPEC, cutting production to keep prices high. We can fix the first by getting our government spending under control we can fix the second by drilling in Alaska. A third reason is speculation but again that would be fixed if we increased the supply.
April 25, 2011 at 6:48 pm
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Notice that no news outlet will tell you how much more tax money the state of Illinois has received this year over last year?
With all that extra tax revenue, why can’t the state have a gas tax “holiday”?
With all the extra gas tax revenue, will Illinois use the extra money for debt repayment, or will it just spend more money?
April 25, 2011 at 6:55 pm
It’s tiny payback for Obama’s unique-immaculate conception- out of the bowels of
Chicago organizing. Obama is on record favoring much higher fuel costs as well.
His refusal to open up our future access to native energy resources seals the deal. But he’s sorry if you cain’t afford that new gocart, or lost a job in the energy sector. Transforming America….real Change the messiah spoke of, will take time….reduced living standards….and much gnashing of teeth.
April 25, 2011 at 6:58 pm
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We’ll pay for your gas if you’ll take Obama back.
April 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Fill my SUV up whth HI-TEST please, Were gonna put-er in the hammer lane all the way to VEGAS!!! NOT!! FOLKS I HAVE A SUZUKI SWIFT AND IT COSTS 20.00 TO FILL IT, OUCH!!!
April 25, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I heard a truck driver on a talk radio show last week– he said that in 2010, he could write off 85% of his fuel costs. This year, he could only write off 20% of his fuel costs. This in combonation with nearly $5.00 a gallon fuel is gonna sink us. It is not the truck drivers fault. be good to them on the road, if they get to the point that they hang it up — how we gonna eat,buy our China shoes, tv sets, ect,ect I figure theres approx 6-8 month time lag for the costs to really sky rocket– every thing that is shipped cross country.
April 25, 2011 at 7:56 pm
the only two things i’m spending money for is gas and food. dont need furniture, clothes, tires. with gas close to $4 gallon where i live means the recession is starting or its been here all the time, $5 means recession is here and $6 the depression is a coming
April 25, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Blame it on Bush and Cheney.
http://www.democrats.com/node/21937
Compare it then to now.
April 25, 2011 at 9:12 pm
http://www.democrats.com/impeach-bush-cheney
April 25, 2011 at 9:17 pm
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Heck, we feel bad for our friends south of us in Chicago. Just to think, Chicago produced the president we have today. Nice to see he’s taking care of his home town…
Hey Chi-Town, do us a favor, take him back !!!!
SJ in Beer Town
April 25, 2011 at 10:21 pm
The writer best get the facts correct..the highest prices are NOT Chicage….it’s Hawaii…over $5.00 a gallon! For regular!
April 25, 2011 at 10:46 pm
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I’m from Wisconsin and we have always considered people from Illinois that THEY think Wisconsin is THEIR State Park. So $4.27/gal. Come on. For $90 you can make it to northern Wisconsin to your beautiful camp site and enough to get your family probably half the way back as well. That’s not that much of a travel pinch. Aren’t you glad we kept some trees and clean water for you?
April 26, 2011 at 3:17 am
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Great blog, I am going to spend more time researching this subject
April 29, 2011 at 5:06 am