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10/25/12, 07:54 PM
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Fox news just said that gas prices could drop to below $3 a gallon everywhere in the US by the end of the year..promises promises..I hope so but not holding my breath, however, we did get gas at $3.159 in Ohio last week
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Yes it is election year.
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10/25/12, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bluemoonluck
Its a miracle! Only a few weeks until the presidential election and by a massive coincidence, the price of gas (which has been as high as a dude at a Grateful Dead Concert for YEARS) is suddenly dropping! 
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Sadly many of the masses are just exactly that. Make no mistake about it.
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10/25/12, 08:02 PM
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Women that get beat live with the guy beating them after having called the police and setting a court date...?
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Very common. A woman came to me crying the blues about an abudsive relationship and refuses to end it. Why?
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10/25/12, 08:21 PM
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Women that get beat live with the guy beating them after having called the police and setting a court date...?
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All the time, unfortunately.
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10/25/12, 08:53 PM
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Actually, main reason is the increased production of crude which doesn't have to be imported. We always think of the Saudis as the biggest producers but the US just may pass them very soon.
Saudi Arabia, look out. US could lead oil production. - CSMonitor.com
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10/25/12, 09:04 PM
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You can thank Mitt Romney for the price going down.
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10/25/12, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by am1too
Very common. A woman came to me crying the blues about an abudsive relationship and refuses to end it. Why?
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Originally Posted by Narshalla
All the time, unfortunately.
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Women make no sense sometimes...
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10/25/12, 09:22 PM
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My name is not Alice
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2.999 here. No discounts.
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10/25/12, 11:21 PM
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The high price of gas doesn't matter if they think we are stupid. Even though many of us know what's going on we have no choice but to pay what they are selling it for because we have to drive the car to work or the grocery. The demand is somewhat inelastic.
Even more inelastic demand is for health care. If someone needs it they will pay whatever they have to to get it. Same for pills.
Both cases of a lack of compition.
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10/26/12, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Nimrod
The high price of gas doesn't matter if they think we are stupid. Even though many of us know what's going on we have no choice but to pay what they are selling it for because we have to drive the car to work or the grocery. The demand is somewhat inelastic.
Even more inelastic demand is for health care. If someone needs it they will pay whatever they have to to get it. Same for pills.
Both cases of a lack of compition.
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Actually there is a decent amount of competition (although not great) it is called price fixing in the case of gas. Anyone who changes the price everyday to keep up with the Jones's Filling Station is price fixing. I know the reasoning behind it but name another product that different brands change the price in unison everyday? It's the same gas they had yesterday, in reality it should be the same price. And all stations in the same area always have the same price.
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10/26/12, 07:08 AM
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We paid $3.18 the other day but that was after our 10 cents off a gallon.
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10/26/12, 09:35 AM
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People have such a short memory.
Every year at this time the price of gas goes down.
All of the holidays are over for a couple months, people are through with vacations, and the use of gas drops. When the demand for gas drops the price also drops.
I am sure around the middle of november the price of gas will go back up.
The holidays will be near and people will be planning on driving more.
The demand for gas will increase and the price will increase.
People forget things that happen from day to day. It would be too much to hope that they would remember what happened the year before.
Maybe if they didn't have such a short memory we would not have the type govt. we now have.
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10/26/12, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by blooba
Actually there is a decent amount of competition (although not great) it is called price fixing in the case of gas. Anyone who changes the price everyday to keep up with the Jones's Filling Station is price fixing. I know the reasoning behind it but name another product that different brands change the price in unison everyday? It's the same gas they had yesterday, in reality it should be the same price. And all stations in the same area always have the same price.
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The price of gasoline is controlled by the stock market the same as grains and precious metals. Your bushel of wheat or wedding ring are the same as yesterday but may be worth more or less today but exactly the same physical item each day.
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10/26/12, 10:51 AM
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$3.99 Gal here still.
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10/26/12, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by InvalidID
Women make no sense sometimes...
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It's not just women. This type of behavior is common in abusive relationships, whether the abused is male or female.
The constant erosion of one's self-concept over time, the continual beating-down (physically and emotionally) cause the Stockholm Syndrome and other such psychological phenomena to manifest.
It takes the average abused individual seven attempts to leave and make it stick.
We, the People, are (IMO) abused by govt and by stooopid people who want something for nothing. How many times will WE put up with it before we take our country back from the elected officials.
And to those who say this is a R. v D thing: Get over it. They're both in cahoots with whomever pays the highest price for their services.
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10/26/12, 11:07 AM
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And to the "competition" comment:
Petrol is a fungible commodity. There's no real competition of which to speak.
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10/26/12, 12:19 PM
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I'll believe it when I see it, I paid $3.98 to fill-up a couple of days ago.
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10/26/12, 04:36 PM
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Many women are scared to leave an abusive relationship because their abuser threatens to kill them if they do. And often when they do leave they are stalked by their abuser and sometimes physically harmed or killed. Happened to both a neighbor and a cousin of mine....the abuser also harmed their kids.
And I read about this kind of stuff happening to women and their kids on almost a daily basis. It is sad. Judge not.
I don't think the gas prices going down has anything to do with politics....they always go down this time of year, and they have refineries now up and running again that weren't functioning before.
People in other countries pay ALOT more for gas than we do!!
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10/26/12, 05:23 PM
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I filled up today for $2.99, no discounts.
It's obviously a ploy right before election, as it always is, but the sad thing is most people are so dumb they don't even realize it for what it is.
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10/26/12, 06:30 PM
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Yuppie Scum
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Originally Posted by calliemoonbeam
I filled up today for $2.99, no discounts.
It's obviously a ploy right before election, as it always is, but the sad thing is most people are so dumb they don't even realize it for what it is.
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Really? Who's behind it and how are they doing it?
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