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toey Donating Member (568 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 04:45 AM
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Call me crazy, but I think I can accept the higher gas prices if...
...if it means our troops will come home. We all know this is about oil anyway.

Not that it would ever happen. I can't help but dream about them being home.
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 04:48 AM
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1. I'll go with you a little bit on that.
Kinda goes with my bumper sticker--I'd give up my tax break for the life of one soldier.

However; when it gets to 5 a gallon I'm gonna have a fit.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 06:12 AM
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2. I don't mind the higher prices if it starves the SUVs
Meanwhile, my Prius and I will just do our best to get along.


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Nobody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 06:30 AM
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3. Nice car!
And I bet you're loving the 50+ mpg you're getting.

I usually wind up having to get gas just after prices go up. I have terrible luck in that area. This time, however, I filled up right before the price hike and despite a week's worth of 40 mile commutes each day, I still have half a tank of gas!

The strangest thing I saw the day the prices skyrocketed was two Hummers, both with one person in them.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:10 AM
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4. Check out www.GasBuddy.com and the Triple-A Fuel Price Finder
http:/www.GasBuddy.com

http://tinyurl.com/atlnv

In any case, you should really only use gasoline from Hess, Citgo, and Costco.




Citgo
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to shake ... Alejandro Granado - Chairman - CITGO Petroleum Corporation ...
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Hess
Amerada Hess currently has a 98% BuyBlue rating due to political ... Hess' Chairman
and his spouse contributed heavily and almost exclusively to Democratic ...
http://www.buyblue.org/detail.php?corpId=81


Costco
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... Costco executives contributed heavily to Democratic candidates for ...
http://www.buyblue.org/detail.php?corpId=17


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headin_south Donating Member (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:19 AM
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5. Not Me...
Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 10:21 AM by headin_south
i was watching the news last night and a woman said that we've had it lucky for so long in this country compared to europe and that it doesn't really bother her to pay higher prices...

the thing is, those higher prices in europe are due to govt taxes used for economic and social programs designed to help folks, right? the higher prices HERE in the u.s. are due to profiteering corporate scum bilking working folk so their limos can be a little longer and they can get an extra helping of caviar while the rest of us curtail travelling, cancel our cable tv, eat hamburger helper 3 days a week instead of once a week, etc.

get real folks.
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