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Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 | 2:15 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices. The average price of regular gas across the state was nearly $4.49 a gallon, the highest in the nation, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge report. In Southern California, the price jumped 20 cents a gallon overnight to $4.53 in Ventura. And in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area prices went up 19 cents to nearly $4.54. It wasn't ...
Contributing to this report were AP Energy Writers Jonathan Fahey in New York and Sandy Shore in Denver, AP writer Juliet Williams in Sacramento and Sun staff writer Conor Shine.
Every time the gas goes down they think of a new reason to get it back up again. Less consumer driving this year so they have to make it up.
Let's face it, this is a nightmare coming to our neighborhood & soon. It's exactly what Osama Obama promised if elected. He said "Energy prices would necessarily skyrocket." So, who's surprised it has come to pass? The moron-in-chief has wasted up to 90 billion on "green" companies such as Fister, Tesla and Solyndra while, at the same time, stopping nearly all fossil energy expansion on federal lands and vetoing new energy supplies such as the Keystone pipeline and shale oil. Want 4 more years of his moronic nonsense? Then vote for the guy with the Cheshire Cat grin who hasn't a clue as to how to jump-start the economy or reduce unemployment and will continue piling up trillion dollar deficits which will bankrupt the nation and turn the U.S. into a Third World country. Is that the heritage you want to leave for your children and their children, as well? If you do, you should be ashamed of yourself!
This is clear collusion by the gasoline suppliers and distributors.
AT THIS PRICE YOU CAN IMPORT GASOLINE FROM OTHER STATES AND MAKE A PROFIT!
This is just being done to manipulate voters and public opinion against voting democratic.
And it is clearly working, just look at the above comment from someone who believes the propaganda.
In you don't work in the oil and gasoline industry, you really are unaware how this game is played. There is a proven relationship between high gasoline prices and democratic areas - even down to local zip codes.
Wake up people-you are being manipulated.
I drive an RV to California a couple times a month so that my kids can play at the beach, go to the theme parks, and we can also enjoy some nature. I usually pay around $400 round trip for the gas when it's at the $3.80 range. I guess I'll have to pay a little more next time, maybe what, $150 more? I say who cares. I enjoy having the kids not complain about the trip because they can enjoy playing games, getting something to eat, or taking a nap in a bed if they get tired. I make over $250K a year so a rise in gas doesn't effect me at all. I'm the guy Obama is trying to hurt with the end of the Bush tax credits but that won't even hurt me because like most upper middle income people, I own a business, and I've already set things up so that my company doesn't have to pay any taxes by doing things like buying an RV for the company with company profits and writing off the gas expense to the company. Why? Large billboard on the side of the RV to promote our products make the RV a rolling ad and a tax write-off. Each trip to SoCal I collect business cards and keep a good log of all the business activity that took place. So you see, Obama can't hurt the rich no matter how hard he tries. He can only hurt the poor (and he does). And why should Obama or Michelle care, they're not poor. Bottom line, Omaba-Reid policies will only screw the poor who live hand to mouth and the unemployed who won't be able to find a job if dems retain power. Why? Rich people know how to survive when the gov becomes oppressive. Instead of running a business here in the states that doesn't allow them to turn a profit, they invest their capital in off shore funds that allow their money to grow legally without having to pay any taxes in the states, as long as the money never comes home to roust which it won't. Poor people on the other hand become more dependent on the gov which has less resources due to reduced business activity and the fact 1/2 of those who receive gov handouts are not even citizens of the USA. Talk about a FUBAR situation!
Anyone driving a 1967 cutless...well DA !! I don't want to hear any bitching.That goes for your hummer crowd and your huge SUV gang... As for Status....well hell...California is at the front of that line. Wake up people...The days of driving 6 times across the street in your Escalade to the 7 eleven are over....Hell will freeze over before they surrender those monsters. I actually liked it back East when the gas prices went through the roof....the roads were empty of all the monster trucks and getting around was a dream.I drive a sensible car with sensible mileage and gang my stops up together so I make one trip,starting with the furthest point and working my way back home,not the other way around. Takes a little thinking,but not much.