http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3544991Obviously, Bela Pelosi hasn't thought about the campaign promise of the Democrats, made in April 2006, six months before the mid-term elections, that if the Democrats got elected to control Congress, they'd do something about high gasoline prices.
Incidentally, July 1, mid-year, is when most state gasoline-tax hikes take place, thus the origin of the rumor.The bonfire was lit last evening (Monday evening). Earlier in the day, someone had warned me that gasoline prices were going to jump after midnight, and so perhaps it was a good idea to fill the tank.
I brushed it off.
Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 07:18 PM
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Gas up tonight.! May be just a rumor...
but a friend called me a little while ago. His granddaughter works at Walmart in Indianapolis, and the employees there were told to fill up tonight as gas was going to jump 80 cents per gallon tomorrow.
Last evening, the evening of June 30, gasoline was sold at $3.93 and $3.83 in northeastern Nebraska.
The state gasoline-tax hike of three cents took place at midnight.
This morning, the morning of July 1, gasoline was sold at $3.91 and $3.81 in northeastern Nebraska.
Anyway.
whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 07:21 PM
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1. I filled up last Saturday, it was $3.979, 80 cents more tomorrow, wow!
It's a very large bonfire, and the primitives get into it, rather nastily, when a few of their number suggest people can live without automobiles, which ends up being about 90% of the conflagration. It gets really hot and hostile, but too much to copy-and-paste here.
Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 07:26 PM
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5. 80 cents. I don't think so.
8 cents maybe.
Heddi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 07:42 PM
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19. I just got this exact same thing in my email 2 minutes ago
Funny how both my email friend, and a stranger on the intertubes BOTH got a call from a friend, and that friend ALSO has a grand-daughter that works at Walmart in Indianapolis and was ALSO told to fill up tonight by her superiors!!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD! IT'S ON THE INTERNET...it must be true
Heddi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-01-08 03:33 PM
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86. No. I'm telling you. I JUST GOT THIS SAME THING IN MY EMAIL from a friend who knows someone whose granddaughter works at Walmart and who was told to gas up tonight (last night)
Maybe your friend is pulling your leg. Maybe the granddaughter is. I'm just telling you that I got the same message in an email just as I was reading this message on DU
carlyhippy (182 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 07:58 PM
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23. it jumped here 10 cents just this afternoon
I filled up at 3.96 at the last station that had not yet changed their prices.
The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 08:32 PM
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37. damn, it is $4.59 here for reg unleaded in Bakersfield
A few places locally may be a tad cheaper, but that is about the avg I have been seeing.
EOO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-30-08 08:00 PM
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24. 80 cents a gallon? No ****ing way!
MadinMo (153 posts) Tue Jul-01-08 02:07 PM
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82. So how much did it go up in your area (overnight)? 6 cents here in SW Missouri
carlyhippy (182 posts) Tue Jul-01-08 02:48 PM
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84. 6 cents here too....glad I filled up yesterday before they changed the signs
Two Truck (18 posts) Tue Jul-01-08 04:09 PM
Response to Reply #82
91. well,
.02...
suburban Chicago Mobil.
Maybe they meant $.80 a tank?
Probably.
