Expect gas prices to fall below $3
(Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com)
Is it possible the average price at the pump could be below $3 a gallon by the time leaves begin to change?
Absolutely, according to experts who follow fuel price trends, and some areas of Georgia have already broken the barrier. At one station in Macon on Friday, unleaded regular was selling for $2.90, and in Duluth and Suwanee prices were as low as $3.04 and $3.05, respectively.
Higher oil production, an existing ample supply of fuel, falling crude oil prices, lukewarm consumer demand and a drop in contracts for wholesale delivery of fuel to gas stations in the fall are the right ingredients for a further drop in gas prices.
Barring any unforeseen calamity that might disrupt production or distribution, such as a hurricane that would interrupt delivery from the Gulf of Mexico or block tankers from arriving in Savannah, or a major conflict in the Middle East, the price trend should continue, even with the arrival of summer and more vehicles on the road for vacations.
“[T]he market is suggesting gas below $3 by Halloween, and certainly by Thanksgiving,” Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service, told USA Today. Some experts, however, note that gas prices typically drop in the fall before rising again as winter fuel demands kick in.
While consumers in Macon may be seeing prices already below $3, AAA spokeswoman Jessica Brady said it will be a while before prices that low become widespread in metro Atlanta.
“I think prices will continue to trend as they have,” Brady told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I think we could dip below $3 in some areas. I don’t think we are going to see a below-$3 average across the board.”
According to the OPIS’ latest figures, the average price for regular unleaded gas Friday in metro Atlanta was $3.28, which is down 21 cents from a month ago and 29 cents from a year ago. Regular unleaded was already as low as $3.04 and $3.05 at Costco and Kroger stations, respectively, in Duluth and Suwanee, according to Atlantagasprices.com. Gas was highest in Atlanta, especially in the northeast and northwest, with some stations selling regular unleaded for as high as $3.79.
The national average price for regular unleaded is currently $3.47. Earlier this year there were fears that gas prices could hit $5 a gallon this year, mainly due to Mideast tensions, oil refinery glitches that hindered supplies and energy speculation.
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115 comments Add your comment
General Ledger
June 22nd, 2012
1:23 pm
That sounds great but what do the “experts” know? Weren’t these the same people who said gas would be $5 by Memorial Day 2012?
Chris
June 22nd, 2012
1:28 pm
funny how they are expected to be lowest around election time
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
1:33 pm
Chris – “funny how they are expected to be lowest around election time”
Ah yes, another moronic reference to the mythical “magic wand” that allows the POTUS to raise or lower fuel prices at will.
LaNita
June 22nd, 2012
1:35 pm
That’s just too funny. We were at 3.49 a gallon yesterday. Today we are 3.54. Going down i think not.
Robert
June 22nd, 2012
1:40 pm
My area QT and Shell always raise the gas price 10-20 cents on Friday afternoon – just in time for the weekend. Is that price gouging?
J. R. Ewing
June 22nd, 2012
1:44 pm
Ewing Oil is back in business!
ATinSAV
June 22nd, 2012
1:44 pm
I just paid 3.14 in mid-town Savannah.
paul
June 22nd, 2012
1:49 pm
went to nashville earlier this week and gas in chattanooga area is $3.01
Dekalb comments
June 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
@ Fletch 1:33 p.m.
I couldn’t agree more. There is a belief among some that the President has some magic incantation he (or eventually a she) chants that raises or lowers gasoline prices. This is never affected by supply, demand, global tensions, weather, etc. Interestingly this is usually asserted only when the incumbent in the White House has a “D” by his (or her) name, but never an “R”.
These same experts were telling us we would have $5.00 or higher gasoline by the summer. Well yesterday was our transition to the first full day of summer and prices are well below $4.00 and continuing to drop. So I give these “experts” as much credence as I do the local meterologist. Wait, I give my local tarot card reader greater credence than either of these!
old hairy grandma
June 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
I just got my gas to the lowest it’s been in years, by lowering my beans intake. Oh what a relief!!!
William Coit
June 22nd, 2012
1:59 pm
I paid $2.99 in Southaven Mississippi on my way back home from Memphis.
john jordin
June 22nd, 2012
2:00 pm
Of course reporters only do LINEAR PROGRESSIONS.If a curvilinear happens they hope you have a short memory.
John
June 22nd, 2012
2:05 pm
Just in time for the pre-election American psyche.
Mark
June 22nd, 2012
2:12 pm
The rise in oil prices a few months received intense media coverage and there was lot of blaming of the President by Republicans. So why aren’t we nowseeing Republicans praising the President and headlines like “Gas May Be Free By End of Summer!”?
Fort Myers
June 22nd, 2012
2:13 pm
The bigger question is: Why such a disparity in the price – $3.79 in Northwest ATL and the average in Georgis is $3.28. Someone is ripping the people of Georgia off. We need some oversight of gas prices in this state.
Reel
June 22nd, 2012
2:15 pm
The largest scam industry is the oil business. Oil companies have been trying for years to condition Americans to $3-4/ gallon for a few years now. That conditioning will continue for a few more years so that the oil company profits can continue for individual and corporate stockowners. When you consider the record profits this industry produces each and every year, you begin to wonder why our politicians are not speaking about prices. Lobby money is tough to resist to secure reelections and there are more than enough lobby entities to take care of the pols.
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
2:18 pm
Fort Myers – “We need some oversight of gas prices in this state.”
WHAT?!!!! That my friend is called REGULATION, and it’s one step away from free healthcare and giving everyones money away to the lazy SOsB who occupy the lower rung. We’ll have none of that here!
Pipeline Man
June 22nd, 2012
2:19 pm
You need to check wih industry expert Simon Holland about this.
rob
June 22nd, 2012
2:20 pm
to all the idiots that blame the president for high gas prices, why don’t you blame him for high blood pressure too. DAMN GET A LIFE.
Smokewagon
June 22nd, 2012
2:24 pm
Mark – With gas prices over $3.00 / gal. and the strict no drill for America policy there will be absolutely no praise for Obama.
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
2:27 pm
Smokewagon – “Higher oil production, an existing ample supply of fuel,”
Soooooo…….drilling more for export will do what exactly?
Candylicious
June 22nd, 2012
2:29 pm
Time it gets to $3 a gallon we’ll be clamoring for full size SUVs and you won’t be able to give away a Prius. Then as always it’ll migrate back to $4-5, probably by the end of the year, at which point we’ll all become environmentalists again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
beeg1
June 22nd, 2012
2:29 pm
There is more to this than meets the eye. Government around the world has much to do with the price of petroleum products; especially in the Middle East!
Smokewagon
June 22nd, 2012
2:34 pm
Fletch – Plenty of oil available from countries that hate us and spend profits from our purchases to wage war against us. I prefer that we produce our own oil and keep it here.
American Jobs
American Profits
American Pride
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
2:36 pm
Smokewagon – “I prefer that we produce our own oil and keep it here”
That would be great, except that the United States isn’t in the oil business. All oil belongs to the companies who own the leases. The companies who own the leases are foreign entities. Without forming US Oil Inc, or nationalizing the existing wells, we don’t really get a say as to where the oil produced in our waters or in our fields goes. At this point in time, it all goes to the highest bidder.
Vampire Bill
June 22nd, 2012
2:39 pm
It’s sad that I’m looking forward to 3.00 a gal like it’s some kind of a deal. How about 1.29 a gal? That was reality not too long ago.
Jane
June 22nd, 2012
2:42 pm
I saw gas in Duluth at $3.05 on Wednesday. But it does usually go up for the weekend and drops on Monday. Usually its the cheapest on Wednesdays.
Jane
June 22nd, 2012
2:45 pm
I agree that they are conditioning us for $4/5 gallon gas prices. The oil companies have made billions off this country in the last few years. They have made enough money to last them several life times. And that still is not enough which is why gas prices are high. We need to go back to the days when gas was under $1.00 per gallon. Believe it or not it wasn’t that long ago.
NancyB
June 22nd, 2012
2:45 pm
It’s a nice time to reside and work in Gwinnett County.
Smokewagon
June 22nd, 2012
2:47 pm
Fletch – That is sad but true but I would love to see things change in the oil industry. Heck I would love to see more vehicles fueled by natural gas which is also abundant.
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
2:52 pm
Smokewagon – “I would love to see more vehicles fueled by natural gas which is also abundant.”
Count me in on that.
Humble~
June 22nd, 2012
2:53 pm
Can’t WAIT!
Chanticleet
June 22nd, 2012
2:56 pm
The POTUS has the ability to nuke any country that deserves it, and you don’t think he has influence over gas prices? Do you remember the last time gas drop this much? That’s right 2008. Do you know what else happened in 2008? I’ll be damned, a Presidental election.
learnsomeecon
June 22nd, 2012
2:56 pm
Can you say POTUS ’s doube dip recession? It’s here, granted by definition it may not be confirmed for 3 quarters but I’d like to welcome all the Keynesians to the party. When the US gets a cough, the world gets the cold. The worst econmy in our lifetime, fueled by negligence and overreach of many government policies, has speard to the world and the bottom has fallen out on gas demand, its just simple economics. Check out history and Carter era fuel policy among others. That whole doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome?
gutdawg
June 22nd, 2012
3:01 pm
Augusta area gas is all below $3 a gallon. I paid $2.93 a gallon this morning. A couple of places had it temporariy at $2.84 a gallon last weekend.
Motocross Survivor
June 22nd, 2012
3:03 pm
Give me a break, it’s an election year and Obama knows these gas prices rising would likely spell doom for his re-election.
TomCat
June 22nd, 2012
3:06 pm
I have noticed that every presidential election year, the gas prices go down and down. Until about 3 months after the election is over. Then the oil companies raise them. Coincidence? I think not.
You libs
June 22nd, 2012
3:06 pm
Enter your comments here
PTC DAWG
June 22nd, 2012
3:08 pm
I’m a Libertarian, the POTUS has no influence on fuel prices.
That said, I had to laugh at the poster calling for regulation. Free market works best. Gas is higher or lower in different areas because of many factors…cost of doing in business is not the same everywhere for one thing…I could go on, but the original poster wouldn’t understand.
You libs
June 22nd, 2012
3:09 pm
I’m worried sick for all those people who were blaming Obama for the high gas prices a few weeks ago. Has anybody seen them? Could we put their pictures on milk cartons or something?
Oh, and would be rude of me not to say “thank-you, Mr. President.”
proud to be an ignorant Tahoe driver
June 22nd, 2012
3:09 pm
Sorry, I don’t consider that a big price drop. If it drops below 2.50 a gallon, call me.
Also, I’m a big deal and you WILL recognize this.
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
3:10 pm
Motocross Survivor – “it’s an election year and Obama knows these gas prices rising would likely spell doom for his re-election.”
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DC
June 22nd, 2012
3:12 pm
I like it when oil jumps up $3 per barrel and gas goes up .10 – .15 per gallon. Oil drops $3 and gas goes down .02 or .03. Gas usually jumps at 10 cent increments and goes down a penny or two at a time.
John Blaze
June 22nd, 2012
3:13 pm
I would love to see gas go up to 7 or 8 dollars a gallon. The fallout would be incredible.
TMM
June 22nd, 2012
3:15 pm
Fletch,
Is that Marge Simpson or the creature from “Alien”?
Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
3:16 pm
TomCat – “Until about 3 months after the election is over. Then the oil companies raise them. Coincidence? I think not.”
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Fletch
June 22nd, 2012
3:17 pm
TMM – “Is that Marge Simpson or the creature from “Alien”?”
LOL, neither. It just saves time when addressing inane comments such as the ones above.
Capital City Club clown
June 22nd, 2012
3:17 pm
Did somebody mention being a big deal? Because I am certainly big time. Everyone thinks so.
Mister.Earl
June 22nd, 2012
3:19 pm
In its relentless coverage of rising gas prices, Fox News made some outrageous predictions of $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon gasoline by summer. But these predictions have proven to be nothing more than wishful thinking by a network that hoped to use high prices at the pump as a campaign issue against President Obama.
arnold
June 22nd, 2012
3:20 pm
It’s O’bamas fault.
Mister.Earl
June 22nd, 2012
3:21 pm
Fox News Gets It Dead Wrong Again
In line with GOP messaging strategy, Fox anchors hyped rising gas prices as an “opportunity to disrupt” a positive economic narrative and perhaps even “de-rail” President Obama’s re-election. Fox’s energy “expert” Eric Bolling went so far as to declare that high gas prices “will take down the presidency.”
But as oil analyst Tom Kloza anticipated, Fox’s astronomical predictions have turned out to be “nonsense.”
RHarris
June 22nd, 2012
3:21 pm
CCCC,
Your little club is crap. Get a non-dbag personality.
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
3:22 pm
Exactly you Republiturds! You were quick to groan, point and blame Obama when the prices were high. It was his fault according to YOU! Now that prices are falling lower than they’ve been in years why aren’t you “praising” him? Oh we see…when things go bad, it’s Obama’s fault. When things go good, well we don’t hear a PEEP. You ‘turds will ALWAYS complain about Obama. Racist, uneducated pigs. (And I’m white!)
Mister.Earl
June 22nd, 2012
3:27 pm
Fox News Lies
Analysts expect prices will continue to drop this summer as a result of easing tensions in the Middle East, rising domestic production and decreasing global demand.
These market factors were largely overlooked by Fox’s talking heads as they blamed President Obama for rising gas prices. But now that prices are falling, Fox has changed its tune. Stuart Varney summarized Fox’s contradictory narratives, saying:
STUART VARNEY: [Obama] has had nothing to do with bringing the gas price down the last few days. He’s had everything to do with pushing the gas price up over the last three years.
Sheesh, President Obama cannot win.
John
June 22nd, 2012
3:34 pm
They already should be below 3 bucks a gallon, The high was @ 142 a barrel Ie: 4 dollars at the pump, It is now roughly half that, so it should be 2 something now!
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
3:35 pm
In the case of Stuart Varney he is acutally a Republitard as demonstrated by his dumbarse analysis.
Steve
June 22nd, 2012
3:38 pm
Obama should get the credit for when gas prices drop; he gets the blame when they rise!!!
Tired of them all
June 22nd, 2012
3:39 pm
I agree the president does not dictate fuel prices. The Obamabots want to forget blaming Bush when ot reached four bucks under his watch. What a president CAN do to impact prices is sign or announce legislation. Ban drilling the gulf? Prices go up. Allow new drilling or exploration, or even a Keystone pipeline? Prices go down. If you choose to believe there is zero correlation, I have a great business opportunity for you sucker.
Arlantan
June 22nd, 2012
3:40 pm
It appears all the liberal posters weren’t alive in the W era – everyone from Nancy Pelosi to the neighborhood lib blamed Bush and his “big oil” buddies on high gas prices in 2008. Today’s lowering prices are due to a worldwide economic slowdown and nothing to do with BO – well other than his contributions to America’s economic slowdown….
ConcernedCitizen
June 22nd, 2012
3:44 pm
Reqyulations are not always bad, but the best answer for the gas price situation would be to remove oil from the commodities market and let the actual consuming market set the price rather than a speculator or group of speculators. If they want to speculate on oil as a commodity then let them buy and take possession of the amount of oil they are speculating on and hold it until the time period they have speculated the price will be whatever they have deemed it will be. There would be more reason about the price of oil if they actually had to put their money in play at the time.
4dabirds
June 22nd, 2012
3:44 pm
Isn’t it amazing how you never heard of weather ever having anything to do with gas prices back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Even more amazing is how gas prices are going down in time for the election. Is it no wonder that our government only has a couple of refineries operating and controlling the supply and demand? Everything we all think we know about oil, is really nothing but BS! Yes, I am happy about prices going down, but my guess is that they never should have gotten to where they are today.
HENRY
June 22nd, 2012
3:47 pm
i predicted this world wide economic recession years ago when the oilshieks first started their hugh price increases and therefore hugh gas costs. you cannot expect the economy to continue like it did in the 90’s if the middle class has to pay 40 to 50 per cent more of their normal expenses just to get to their jobs.
c-bear
June 22nd, 2012
3:48 pm
Oil @ $80/bbl should have gas @ 2$, remember oil @ $130~ and gas @ $4+ hmmmm…
oil dirt cheap means dirt bags get little revenue-blame speculators
rob
June 22nd, 2012
3:49 pm
Yes, President Obama asked the Saudi’s to raise their oil pumping production to help him out, and since they have him in his back pocket (lets bow to a prince) and they know that if someone else was elected that our oil drilling on our own soil will hurt the Saudi’s greatly, so they will do anything to make him look good!
Mister.Earl
June 22nd, 2012
3:51 pm
Arlantan – the American economic slowdown has more to do with the digital revolution that you are admitting. Remember the Industrial Revolution?
One more thing, the economy was set on a downward path before Jan 20, 2009. Just thought you should know.
rob
June 22nd, 2012
3:55 pm
Proud Lib, thanks for telling us you were white ….what you didnt mention is that your a moron!
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Bobo
June 22nd, 2012
3:58 pm
It’s not Obama’s fault. He’s too stupid and incompetent to possibly understand a global market. He can’t even understand why taxation doesn’t create money from thin air.
A.S. Mathew
June 22nd, 2012
4:00 pm
Even though the gas price is coming down, less cars are in the road, which is a clear indication that the people are not going to drive without an absolute need. The gas price will come down farther down.
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:03 pm
Better to be a moron than a mormon-worshipper white ignorant man like yourself. Rob – ironic you should be named that. Mitt Robme has you in his back pocket…literally!
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:05 pm
Rob is feeding into the Faux News rewriting of history and denial, denial, denial of actual facts to justify his own delusional beliefs. Just like Robme’s political campaign in Mass – didn’t work then, not gonna work now.
Bobo
June 22nd, 2012
4:07 pm
Being a Proud Lib is kind of like being a proud child molester. No one else is proud of you…..
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:10 pm
Bobo…with a name like that no wonder you’ve developed a inferority complex…the same says it all! Republiturd. Republitard. Six of one, half a dozen of another.
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:11 pm
….name says it all…BOBO!!!
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:12 pm
You forget the FACTS ‘turds…gas prices HAVE fallen contrary to all that smoke screen and mirrors you threw up earlier in the year. And it’s ALL thanks to Obama. Suck it up and swallow your ignorance. We see through you.
al
June 22nd, 2012
4:14 pm
yes expect it to drop drastically before the election the double after.
Bobo
June 22nd, 2012
4:16 pm
Who are you talking to? You’re like a crazy bag lady screaming on the subway….. no one cares….and for your information I’m an independaturd or whatever other infantile expression you want to use.
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:18 pm
You obviously know I’m talking to you BOBO or you wouldn’t have referenced yourself as an independaturd. If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t have respondend. Infantile? Kind of like comparing a proud lib to a proud child molester infantile name calling? Is that the best you can come up with BOBO?
Cookies
June 22nd, 2012
4:19 pm
Forget gas have you seen the price a pack of smokes? I’m glad i don’t smoke..
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:19 pm
But good try denying who you actually are. I would to if I were a republiturd. Indpendaturd…sure you are.
Mister.Earl
June 22nd, 2012
4:25 pm
“Regular unleaded here in Middle GA is selling for $3.15/gallon. The far right here let Newt Gingrich rile them up and made them believe that a president can control the price of gas at the pump. Of course, they’re Fox News viewers. They aren’t saying one word about the lower gas prices. It’s as if their prior behavior on this issue never happened.
Fox is toxic for our democracy because of the lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories the network creates and promotes. Logic would tell a rational thinking person that when a sentence begins with “Some say….,” more than likely there are no/few facts being imparted.”
Rev Al
June 22nd, 2012
4:26 pm
The world economy is going in the crapper so demand is plummeting….hence lower prices for crude….
Rev Al
June 22nd, 2012
4:27 pm
I see the libtards are out in full circle jerk force……see, Mr. Earl and company….
Ed
June 22nd, 2012
4:28 pm
Motorists will someday catch on to the fact that they are financing the so-called fuel efficiencies in more ways than one. First by paying more for less in their automobiles. Second, as the efficiency of engines increases it’s inevitable that fuel prices will increase as well. Producers and refiners must obtain a certain margin of profit to stay in business. The motoring public is going to pay that margin. The more effciencies demanded by the government, and the more unnecesary gadgets that are added will get to your pocketbook at the dealers and the gas pumps.
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:29 pm
The scary thing about Faux News conspiracy theories is that they actually have people who believe the lies. And they’re allowed to vote. If Faux News said aliens had landed and that Obama was trading humans for alien intelligence, the crazies on the right would actually believe it!
Proud Lib
June 22nd, 2012
4:31 pm
I can see the Republitards are out in full circle jerk each other…..see Rev Al and company….
You libs
June 22nd, 2012
4:37 pm
I think somebody needs a nap….
Shelley
June 22nd, 2012
4:41 pm
As people lose their jobs, repubs always blame those who struggle as being lazy. I’ve seen hateful comments about “these losers should start their own company”. When Bain closed the steel mill, all those people lost their jobs and I’m sure it destroyed the local economy in that small town. To follow are people who can’t pay their mortgages, no buyers for sellers who can’t pay their mortgage, few jobs for the thousands who lost a good paying one and then maybe they fall under foreclosure. What befuddles me is when I see comments like “start your own business”. With what? The money fairy? People go through their savings when they lose a job and can no longer find another. And BANKS sure as hell aren’t releasing SBL’s! It if were THAT easy to start up a business we would ALL start up a business. It takes capital which the unemployed don’t have and banks won’t finance.
brother bill
June 22nd, 2012
4:51 pm
Of course Obama can control Gas prices. Just like he controls the wind and rain. He is the President, after all.
Chief76
June 22nd, 2012
5:07 pm
@john and @c-bear: While I agree gas prices are not falling as quickly as they rose when oil skyrocketed (they never do) there are two legitimate reasons (along with a host of illegitimate reasons) that are working against gas prices falling as far as they should: 1) the oil prices you see in the news are for FUTURE contracts. Usually for the following month and with it being this late in June, perhaps even for August delivery. So gas prices today are really working off oil prices from a month ago (it’s a little more complicated that this but this is the jist of it), and 2) we are in the summer months which means we have to buy a more expensive boutique blend of gas to keep smog at a minimum. That’s why a lot of these predictions are for falling prices through the fall because once the weather cools, we can buy a cheaper, “dirtier” blend of gas.
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Midtown123
June 22nd, 2012
5:40 pm
IF this actually happens, I’m sure the GOP will 1) take credit for it and 2) say POTUS had nothing to do with it at all.
Billy
June 22nd, 2012
5:58 pm
Just glad it’s going down. If you had to drive over 100 miles a day round trip to work, you’d feel the same way. If you’re a tree hugger, I saw a commercial the other day with a guy commuting via a pogo stick. Wear yourself out…
Truth
June 22nd, 2012
6:11 pm
Who cares what gas costs?
If you have to worry about what gas costs, maybe you shouldn’t have a car.
Live within your means and stop financing your lifestyle you peons.
Gerardo
June 22nd, 2012
6:12 pm
I hope it goes really high, like $7 a gallon. You people with you’re big SUVs make me sick.
Geno
June 22nd, 2012
6:23 pm
This is an election year ploy and you can bet prices will soar come December. I guess China usage is not a factor anymore!
Demographic Democrat
June 22nd, 2012
6:27 pm
That’s right…Dems are responsible for every rotten thing that happens in this country. And tea baggers are responsible for every good thing. Typical right mentality.
Atlantan
June 22nd, 2012
6:37 pm
Liberals – what exactly did Obama do to lower the gas prices? Seriously what did he do?
JoeBrave
June 22nd, 2012
7:23 pm
Smokewagon – “I would love to see more vehicles fueled by natural gas which is also abundant.”
Damn right and we could start by squeezing the Hot air outta that INEPT IDIOT residing in the White House at the moment.
splavistic
June 22nd, 2012
7:28 pm
So, where is all the GOP/FOX congratulations to the POTUS for lower fuel prices?! They sure were on his button when prices were rising. Personally, I know that POTUS can’t ‘fix’ oil prices, but the GOP sure thought that he could back a few months ago. So, job well done Mr. Obama!
Motocross Survivor
June 22nd, 2012
7:29 pm
Fletch, you really don’t believe a sitting President can influence the price of gasoline to the public? What a naive little urchin you are, son.
Bob anderson
June 22nd, 2012
7:30 pm
here we go again never fails…..OBAMA is after ther office for another term please think and think again….gas will continue to fall until election day and then be prepared for the highest prices that you can even imagine, just think how many people have gotten rich over the rise and fall over the past 3 and a half years
Pkahoe
June 22nd, 2012
7:47 pm
Ah Just in time for the Election. HMMMM! Think
OBAMA
June 22nd, 2012
8:29 pm
You Crackers can thank me, by voteing me back in.
01HAWK
June 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Paid $3.39 for BP Premium …………93 GRADE one block from FIVE STAR FORD in MACON today.
01HAWK
June 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Correction…………………That was in WARNER ROBINS
Paid $3.39 for BP Premium …………93 GRADE one block from FIVE STAR FORD in WARNER ROBINS today.
Chris
June 22nd, 2012
10:09 pm
ATTENTION HARD WORKING AMERICIANS!!! DO NOT LET THE FOLKS WHO ARE TRYING TO REMAIN IN OFFICE PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES!!! THEY ARE SETTING US UP THINKING EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER!! SOME THINGS ARE AND SOME THINGS ARENT JUST STAY ON YOUR TOES AND PRAY BEFORE YOU VOTE!!
CURTIS
June 22nd, 2012
11:30 pm
This comment is directed at all of those who FAILED economics!!! If you buy 10,000 gallons of fuel for your gas station @ $3.95 per gallon. You can’t sell that same fuel for $3.80 just because the unpredictable oil & gas market decides to dip over a few days. It takes a few days to sell that gas at $3.95 before you get the next load of fuel at the reduced price. Most people don’t realize how much HARD work goes into getting it to the pump. So, before you type… think about it! Quit griping about high fuel prices cause if I had it my way it we be $5.00 a gallon already. And morons such as DC would be peddling their happy a___ to pick up their government checks. EARTH FIRST WE CAN DRILL ON THE OTHER PLANETS LATER.
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Jackson
June 23rd, 2012
11:40 am
Atlantan….ABSOLUTELY Obama gets the praise for lowering gas prices. You ‘tards INSISTED he was responsible for the rise of gas prices so by your OWN standards, he absolutely IS responsible for the fall as well. You Repubs can’t have it both ways, though you’d like to. Spoiled, one-sided mentality. Right wing nut cases – Sean Hannity cult is out in full force this election.
Jriggins
June 23rd, 2012
7:06 pm
Once we create new methods of transportation for our own personal commutes, then we will see a significant drop in gasoline demand and therefore a drop in fuel prices will follow. Time to bring more electric cars into the mix people!
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frank
June 25th, 2012
3:00 pm
i think its funny that people bash others as what they drive and that if they have to worry about the price then they shouldn’t drive…lol. so ignorant. do people really not understand that if fuel prices go up then the price of food and everything else go up as well?? it has to be transported across the country somehow. i also find it amusing that Obama himself said AFTER his election that he would like gas prices to go up to around $8/gal