>>>>>I like trickle-down much better than Nobama's tinkle-on. We were better off under any of the presidents since Jimmy Carter left office than we have been under the Great Obfuscator. Gas was running around 1.80 a gallon when Bush left office....Oh well, as James Carville liked to say - It's the Economy Stupid! And it will be the same when Obama loses to whomever lines up against him.
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>>>>Just before the 2008 election, gas prices here were the highest I can remember them being. Yes, they dropped after that, but even this latest rise hasn't gone back to those prices.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>We hit $4/gallon here this spring. 1st time ever here.
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>>DOE data:
http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/gdu/gaspump.html>>
>>Note the peak in summer '08, higher than the April '11 prices.
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>>So while you may have lucked out a little in '08, looks like my memory of that peak being higher is accurate.
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>It is wrong. Gas prices were higher this spring than any previous time.
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Where you are. My point was that there is regional variation. This one is interesting:
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/05/average-gas-prices--may-2-2011.htmland this one seems to agree with me, saying the all time high was July '08.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/08/us-energy-gasoline-retail-idUSTRE7472DI20110508Tamar
