>>Here in the City of Trees we topped off just over $4 when oil was over $145. We've come down to around $3.6, but have been stalled there since Gustav.
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>WOW. We have prices ranging from 3.97 to 7.15! Most have returned to normal (3.98)

You wouldn't believe, but that's how they passed outrageous price hikes... in the seventies and eighties back home, when we had market socialism. They'd announce a 40% leap (for anything - bus rides, coffee, electricity), then weather out the public outrage, then settle for 20%... while they actually wanted it to jump 15% and anything above that is a bonus.