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‘Thought It Was a Mistake on the Sign’: California Gas Prices Officially Hit All-Time High

Oct. 6, 2012 7:17pm Erica Ritz

California Gas Prices Hit All Time High Average of $4.6140 a Gallon

High gas prices are posted at Low-P, an independent gas station in Calabasas, Calif. , Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — It’s a record, though not exactly one to be proud of. The price of gasoline has officially hit an all-time average high in California of $4.6140 a gallon Saturday, fueled by a reduced supply and a volatile market.

The record was set by a fraction of a penny, according to AAA spokesman Michael Green. The previous high was $4.6096 on June 19, 2008.

Prices throughout the state were expected to increase for several more days before leveling off, after a temporary reduction in supply triggered a price spike that saw fuming motorists paying $5 or more per gallon in some locations and station owners shutting down pumps in others.

AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge report released Saturday said the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded across California rose 12 cents from its Friday mark of about $4.49.

A gas station attendant at Costco Wholesale Corp. walks the parking lot after the gas station ran out of gas and closed on October 5, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Getty Images)

Saturday’s price was the highest in the nation, with the Golden State leapfrogging Hawaii this week as the state with the most expensive fuel. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded across California was 47 cents more than just one week ago, according to the AAA report.

“I seriously thought it was a mistake on the sign when we pulled in,” said Nancy Garcia, 34, while filling her Honda Accord at a Chevron station in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. She paid $4.65 a gallon for regular grade and said she couldn’t afford to fill her tank all the way.

When supplies drop, wholesale prices rise. Then distributors and station owners have to pay more to fill up their station’s tanks. They then raise their prices based on how much they paid for their current inventory, how much they think they will have to pay for their next shipment, and, how much their competitors are charging.

The national average Saturday was about $3.81 a gallon, the highest ever for this time of year.

Costco members fill up with discounted gasoline at a Costco gas station in Van Nuys, Calif. , Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Photo: AP)

The dramatic surge came after a power outage Monday at a Southern California refinery that reduced supply in an already fragile and volatile market, analysts said, but the refinery came back online Friday and prices are expected to stabilize by next week.

Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, predicted the average price could peak as high as $4.85.

“There is some relief in sight but probably not for a couple of days. Early next week is when we may see some more significant declines … but at retail prices, prices may climb for the next two to three days before they start to come down,” he said.

CBS has video with disgruntled consumers and gas station owners:

While prices were higher everywhere in California, there were variances Saturday. Chico had the lowest average price at $4.46, according to AAA, while San Luis Obispo was highest at $4.71. Prices averaged $4.67 in San Diego, $4.66 in the Los Angeles area, $4.55 in Fresno and $4.49 in Sacramento.

The price of diesel has also increased, adding significant costs for truckers who typically put hundreds of dollars of fuel in their tanks. It’s gotten so bad, some truckers may stop driving altogether, said Michael Shaw, spokesman for the California Trucking Association, whose members move 80 percent of the cargo on California’s roads each year.

“The fluctuation and rapid increase of prices makes it difficult to plan ahead and take on new contracts,” he said. “It’s difficult to operate in that environment.”

High gas prices are posted at a 76 gas station, foreground, and a Shell station, in Stevenson Ranch, Calif. , Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (Photo: AP)

A web of refinery and transmission problems is to blame, analysts said. The situation is compounded by a California pollution law that requires a special blend of cleaner-burning gasoline from April to October, said Denton Cinquegrana, executive editor of the Oil Price Information Service.

“We use the phrase `the perfect storm,’ and you know what, this current one makes those other perfect storms look like a drizzle. I don’t want to scare anyone, but this is a big problem,” Cinquegrana said. “Run-outs are happening left and right.”

Among the recent disruptions, an Aug. 6 fire at a Chevron Corp. refinery in Richmond that left one of the region’s largest refineries producing at a reduced capacity, and a Chevron pipeline that moves crude oil to Northern California also was shut down.

Gasoline inventories in California are at their lowest point in more than 10 years, a situation made worse by the mandate for the special summer gasoline blend. Few refineries outside the state can make it, meaning there are few outside sources to draw from for help, Cinquegrana said.

Carl Smith stops to take a picture of high gasoline prices posted at a gas station Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in San Diego. (Photo: AP)

The California Air Resources Board was reviewing a request from the California Independent Oil Marketers Association for a waiver that would allow gas stations to begin selling winter-blend gasoline before Halloween.

Some stations ran out of gas and simply shut down rather than take the risk of buying gas at soaring prices only to be stuck with a glut of overpriced fuel if prices drop.

Mark Mitchell, co-owner of the Coast Oil fuel distributorship in San Jose, said when prices hit their peak, some stations would need to charge about $4.89 to break even.

A 52-year-old television costume designer told the New York Times he’s “not happy” about the current situation as he watched the digits climb higher and higher as he filled up his tank.

Adding that his wages aren’t increasing as fast as the cost of living, he remarked: “I’ve been putting in a reasonable amount of gas, enough for two days or so…It’s my way of budgeting what I have to work with each week.”

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Comments (247)

Raging_Waters
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:21pm
There should be political ads by the gas pumps, so while people see the price climbing they can look up and see the question: “Are you better off then you were 4 years ago?” Followed by a smiling Obuma head, of course…

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- Wolf
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:35pm
  Me thinks there should also be a question after yours, asking, “How much oil can you drill for off shore you enviro-weenies won’t allow to be tapped?”
  
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- spendthrift
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:47pm
  I live in California. The Liberal’s have taken over the state, and the enviormentalists and the EPA have control over the natural rescources.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:05pm
  Hey…Hey….but look at that drop in unemployment this week. Pay no attention to your energy costs “unnecessarily skyrocketing”. Oblamo has not raised the cost of living on those making less than 250K one thin dime. Just ask him….
  
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- randy
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:17pm
  Anyone old enough to remember the gas lines when Carter was in office?
  THis sure reminds me of that…….. Just like Carter, obama will be getting his eviction notice come November. I hope someone sweeps the White House for listening devices, I’m sure the Obama Admin has them planted everywhere.
  
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- dealer@678
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:26pm
  You stupid Californians. Go ahead and vote for him again and watch it go to 10 bucks
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:26pm
  i have no pity for these dim wits they get what they have sown
  
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- dealer@678
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:46pm
  When you fools start to exit California and head for Texas you will be shot on sight
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Or replay the video od bHO saying under his plan energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:18pm
  Gary Johnson 2012 or high gas prices cause of big goverment and federal reserve inflation both supported by the other 2. if election don’t work do what iceland did.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:53pm
  I’m SHOCKED that people aren’t going nuts like they did when Pres Bush was in office. Gas prices were UNDER $2, Unemployment was 5.4% until the Dems got in office. The MEDIA were showing us a daily count of the fallen soldiers, pictures of coffins, screaming we’re in a recession and turned the American people against Pres Bush. Now we have the world turned upside down and again THE MEDIA is telling us it’s all good. WHO ARE THE MORONS THAT ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA? and WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM?
  
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- db321
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:22pm
  Rising Gas and Electric Prices plus the added cost of Obama Care – you liberals sure have a sick ideal of what’s right for America. Let me warn you CA citizens, do not criticize Obama or you will be called a racist.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:15am
  One just has to wonder where gas prices and unemployment would be right now if we hadn’t had every attempt to drill wells and build refineries and pipelines tied up in court for years or decades?
  
  Perhaps the proper thing to do would be to push through laws that prevent environmentalist groups from filing lawsuits to block legal businesses from operating, and reduce the EPA to an advisory agency with NO regulatory authority. As long as the whackos can be appointed to the EPA and then right regulations with the force of law without any oversight or consequences, we’ll keep getting these nearly impossible to eliminate regulations that are based on personal agenda in lieu of true science.
  
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- I Luv America
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:15am
  @Dealer678…What is wrong with you? You must be a liberal pretending to be a conservative. No real conservative could or would be as hateful as you.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:25am
  4 Years ago is right… If I recall, didn’t gas prices suddenly surge by a financial crisis that rocked the country four Octobers ago this year? Could this be “history” repeating itself? By history I mean economic terrorism…
  
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- Hugh Akston II
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 8:22am
  HAAAA Schadenfreude! I want more more more for California. It could go to $10 and it would not be enough for me. We in Michigan have had to suffer the destruction of the American auto industry largely due to California inspired EPA regulations and their hatred for American manufacturing. So California pound salt up you ****. This is the crap sandwich that you made, so eat it. Where is Lex Luthor when you need him anyway.
  
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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 8:59am
  Between Commodities rising, unemployment still rampant, food shortages expected next year, the deficit sitll projected at 1+ trillion a year, inflation on the rise, the looming sequestration and tax increases for 2013, the Middle East ablaze I’d have to say that Obama has earned a 2nd term.
  SURE, THINGS ARE JUST PEACHY !!!!!
  
  Never Underestimate the Stupidity of the American People !!!!!!!
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 9:13am
  Yeah, were is Schumer??
  Gee, gas rationing, lines, run-outs-just like Jimma Carter! Way to go barack.
  
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- RIGHTHOOK
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 9:18am
  DEALER – Really, shot on sight huh?? Let me clarify. If a Conservative like myself who’s wife was born in TX, has her entire family in Houston metro, we lived in San Antonio but for career purposes were relocated to CA on two separate occasions and we cross into TX with CA plates, you will take aim with your ignorant mind and start shooting?? You are a disgrace to the Conservative cause, this website and I suspect very slow on the draw. Good luck moron.
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:55am
  “I seriously thought it was a mistake on the sign when we pulled in,” said Nancy Garcia, 34, while filling her Honda Accord at a Chevron station in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park.
  
  Seriously, Moron?!?!?!
  You people have been warned about this for many years! I’ll bet you were also you thought it was a funny little joke when you first heard it. Laughing now? And you idiots who thought Glenn Beck was lying when he started talking about it, you said “he’s lying for his own agenda” still think he’s lying? Grow up! Take responsibility for yourself and stop voting for morons who are taking money from lobbyists to fill their own pockets. Lobbyists don’t have your interests in mind when they go to the capital.
  
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- Angel_light
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 11:19am
  maybe people will wake up then? you would hope so.
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 11:46am
  Want our country back
  
  What’s wrong with them? Should we call it kalifornia syndrome? I’m sure it started long before California was every thought of but apparently it’s collecting and concentrating in that state. Now it’s starting to infect other parts of the country.
  
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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:21pm
  @ RANDY
  
  That was my immediate thought. I feel like we’re reliving the Carter administration. I remember sitting in line for hours, inching closer to the pump, and then seeing the sign go up “Sorry – Out of Gas”. It was a nightmare.
  
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- KOCHLEFFEL
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Dealer
  You should see all the MOVE FORWARD signs in my neighborhood, I live in California.
  Stupid and blind, so let them pay!
  
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- AzThunder
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 3:33pm
  @RANDY
  
  and we could only by 10 gallons at a time on “even or odd” days depending on the numbers on your lic-plate
  
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- newwell
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 7:11pm
  I used to go around with a pad of brightly colored Post-It notes & stick them up at gas stations on the pump & grocery stores on food products that said, “Gas Prices – How’s that hope & change working for you?” or “Food Prices – How’s that hope & change working for you?”
  I used to watch the reactions from afar. Many people would stop & read them, some would take them & NOT wrinkle them up (like they were going to reuse them), and some would looked PI$$ED. It was fun & very non-destructive.
  Guess I’ll break out the Post-Its again.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 7:29pm
  George Carlin will tell you what is the Problem with our Country today.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0yhHHPc7IU
  
  If you want more insight about it, watch this Movie on youtube with over 11 Million Views.
  
  It is Called the Obama Deception, but it could easily be called the Bush or Romney Deception also.
  90% of you MUST WATCH THIS FILM to have an idea about what is REALLY going on.
  JFK was our last REAL President. That is why he was assasinated (Secret Society speech and EO 11110, which would have saved America) I don’t just say that because the film does.
  I realized that JFK was our last president as I was investigating what went wrong in our Country.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 7:48pm
  It explains in the Movie I posted, that the Global Elite want to restrict travel for many different reasons.
  
  1. They want to save earth’s limited natural resources for themselves.
  2. They want less greenhouse gases.
  3. They want to Cripple America’s economy and destroy our Country, so they can carry out their “Global” agenda.
  
  Agenda21 says that travel will be limited and confined to “corridors”.
  
  They are redistrubuting OUR wealth amongst the Planet. Bringing other Countries up, while bringing us down. They want all the Countries on the World on a level economic playing field.
  Here is the Confession from the Global Elite Bankster Himself.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOwZwkhFemQ
  
  Here is another way the Global Elite plan to Dominate the Planet and enslave you, and are already carrying this out.
  MAKE THIS VIRAL !!!!!!
  “Why in the World are they Spraying?”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 7:57pm
  “I have the Confederacy before me, and the bankers behind me, and for my country I fear the bankers most.”
  Abraham Lincoln.
  
  “Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman.”
  Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
  
  “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
  “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals,
  so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
  Dwight Eisenhower
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 8:02pm
  “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.”
  
  John F. Kennedy
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 8:04pm
  *con’t
  
  “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
  
  Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
  
  John F Kennedy
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 10:54am
  PRAY THAT GAS GOES OVER $10/gallon IN MEXIFORNIA
  
  They deserve this because they voted into office Senators and Representatives to Congress who want to destroy our nation. Mexifornia voters have have voted to shut down hydro-power projects, nuclear power projects, oil drilling and refineries. Mexifornia does not have the right to survive.
  
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:13pm
I recently lost my last job because of the high price of gas… Thanks, stupid liberals for over-regulating your subjects into chaos.

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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:53pm
  I miss Bush…
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:45am
  Gas was 1.80 when abamination took over
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 1:49pm
  I’s rather pay more for gasoline than have Bush in office. Still paying the bills for 2 very stupid wars he got us involved in…
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Ha ha WINEDUDE…Seriously? Get a better excuse. I wasn’t that fond of Bush either..but even he would be 1000% better than odumma!
  
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- radicalRWer
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 12:34pm
  @Winedude – Bush “got us in 2 very stupid wars”. Not a Bush fan, but he didn’t ask for the wars. Do you happen to remember 3000 lives lost in one day about 11 years ago? Lay off the wine before posting.
  
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joejohey
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:13pm
Still want Obama California? I sure don’t.

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- blackyb
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:02am
  The whole state of California is going under. So many are on dope and receiving benefits for not working or being motivated to work that it is literally going to pot. This is what legalizing pot does. It does not discourage people from using drugs. Where there is one drug there are all the others. It seems more than the rest of the U.S. can manage to save. Obama is not encouraging people to work. He wants to break this country one way or the other. Right now those living to be high do not give one whitt and are bringing the rest of the people down with them.
  
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TheEndIsComing
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:12pm
Any person who stays in California needs to have their head examined. With a run away federal government, an idiot governor and lutenent governor, along with the socialist nanny-state legislature, California is done. Actually it’s past done. It was bankrupt (both financially and morally) years ago before Arnold was governor. They keep putting on band aids, changing the color of the band aid, but the basic underlying problems are UNCHANGED.

Soon the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down and the takers (those that only take from the government and never give) are going to get their just rewards. It’s going to be a REALLY bad place to be. Most people don’t realize that this is the time of relative peace to prepare for the disaster that’s coming. It’s going to be too late very soon. Get ready people! The end is coming.

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- pissantno.10
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:33pm
  hi this pedro from mexco could you please move this state some place else . it is devalueing my propertie here in the slums
  
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- Magyar
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:39pm
  I clearly understand your message—been on it for 3.5 years— You are correct. If Ovomit is reelected– the naysayers and the unprepared will be the first victims.
  
  Even if Romney wins, there will be problems— big ones—better be ready.
  
  This President is a traitor!
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:13pm
  Had a broker trying to sell us (family) some Cali. Muni Bonds a few years back. He got really pissed when we told him that we wouldn’t invest in a bankrupt state that will never be able to pay them off. Started talking about how he was the ‘trained financial advisor’. He’s not around here, anymore.
  The bonds were the Obama-backed ones, which made it a double no-go for us. Bailing out his cronies.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 5:09am
  Sorry but we don’t want a liberal influx into our state – we have too many already – fix the mess in your own state – don’t mess with mine
  
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christos
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:06pm
…Where is Tesla when you need him,,,the Illuminati sticking it to the people.TA

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Al J Zira
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:04pm
The dramatic surge came after a power outage Monday at a Southern California refinery that reduced supply in an already fragile and volatile market,

Oh Bull! California has no one to blame other than themselves. They’re the ones that place unbearable regulations of refineries and demand exotic blends that cost an exorbitant amount. Like the story said, it’s the perfect storm and they caused their own problem.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:18pm
  The EPA is bad for business and bad for America. Abolish EPA so we can flourish.
  
  End the regime end the madness.
  
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- carbonated
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 12:05am
  Yep. If it wasn’t for all these government-mandated blends, they would have a lot more options for their supply. They’re mandating limited supply with these various blends – just asking for trouble – they got it!
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:59pm
I seem to remember Dear Leader saying…….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Yeah someone earlier said ask some pompous prius driver how much coal per mile do you burn?
  
  I like the south park episode where the prius owners all inhaled their own farts,a damn funny show.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:16pm
  Hi Progressiveslayer,
  
  I went to my local AAA office on Westshore Blvd. in Tampa Friday. They now have 4 “electric cars only” parking spaces out front with “chargers” that take credit cards.
  
  No one else can park there, not even the handicapped.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Hi MONK, PROGRESSIVESLAYER, Your new avatar throws me off every time right now. Have got to get used to it.
  Anyway, at the rate we are going Wells Fargo will have to start running a new fleet of armored fuel tankers.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:46pm
  RJ Yeah I thought it was time for a change so I threw that up there.One of my moods I guess.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:49pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  ProgressiveSlayer’s new “guillotine” avatar reminds me of a Monk story told to me by the head Monk at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Hollywood Ca. (referring to American pragmatism)
  
  A long time ago, in a far away Country, 3 men were captured, tried as spies and sentenced to death. There was a Frenchman, an Englishman and an American. The Frenchman was put under the guillotine, the blade was released but it squeaked to a stop before cutting his head off. The executioner said, “God has smiled upon you and saved you, you are free to go”. The Frenchman got up, screamed Viva La French and ran off. The Englishman was next and the same same happened. He got up, yelled, “Long live the Queen” and ran off. They brought the American up to the guillotine and he said, “You know…. if you put a little oil right here……”
  
  Hope you enjoyed it!
  
  Did you get this EastInfection????
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:55pm
  Edit:
  
  “Viva La France” not “Viva La French”…..
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:55pm
  PROGRESSIVESLAYER, Can’t blame you. I’ve been through a couple of others, but have been happiest with the one I have now. Frankly, I hope that I can change it in January.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:00pm
  THE-MONK, LOL, I wouldn’t be concerned about EASTINFECTION, but I bet you can expect a “Whut?” from PROGRESSIVEPETE soon.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:24pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  EastInfection is OK… he’s just trying to figure out what kind of Monk I am.
  
  So I left that little note/clue for him. He hasn’t posted since yesterday at 6:43 pm.
  
  Hey East… you out there?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:36pm
  Geez MONK, forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the story. Absolutely frightened a couple of the cats when I let out a loud belly laugh.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:39pm
  Hmmm, MONK, just got me thinking. JZS still has not posted since 27 September. Hasn’t attempted to castigate me since the 26th.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  I noticed JZS is missing also. I’m hoping he went fishing and it’s another Jonah and the Whale story.
  
  Only he gets digested and not freed….. LOL
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:14pm
  Won’t be long before California is like a Mad Max movie, where people hijack gas tankers and steal the gasoline wherever they can find it. The greenies will get their wish to live like cave people. They just don’t think it through or realize that oil runs the economy and that half the goods made in America are derived from oil. I hope the greenies enjoys carrying their groceries home from the store 10 miles away on a 95 degree day, or call an ambulance that can’t make it, because of a gas shortage.
  
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:58pm
The Federal Reserve has created so many new dollars that crude oil and gasoline will no longer be affordable by the poor and the middle class…

Since competition is the natural enemy of higher prices, then we would do well to have a bountiful supply of additional choices with which to satisfy our energy needs (like natural gas for instance), but since lobbyists for those who derive immense benefits from the status quo don’t want to see more competition then it looks like we’re gonna’ see the price of gasoline keep climbing the charts like a hit record.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:07pm
  We have more oil and NG than any country on earth that won’t be exploited because our Marxist fraud POS masquerading as president won’t allow it’s exploitation. It would lower the price of oil if that much oil was put on the world market. Some capitalist must have told Barry that would happen because a Marxist POS couldn’t figure that out on his own.Drilling for oil also doesn’t fit in with his BS so called green energy plans.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:22pm
  Look back 4 years. It choked the economy to death. It will again, and faster this time, since the FED won’t be able to print as much without killing all faith in the $. We’re going to look like Mexico in the 80′s.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 6:57pm
  progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:07pm
  
  We have more oil and NG than any country on earth that won‘t be exploited
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  The industry analysts who actually follow this say otherwise:
  
  (from April 22, 2012)
  “We’ll see another build in Cushing, Oklahoma,” Phil Flynn, an analyst at futures brokerage PFGBest in Chicago, said yesterday by phone. “There is no place for that oil to go.”
  
  Domestic crude output climbed to 6.05 million barrels a day in the week ended March 30, the highest level since December 1999 and an increase of 7.3 percent from a year earlier.
  
  Energy companies have been boosting oil production, encouraged by rising prices. The number of oil rigs in the U.S. grew 50 percent from a year ago to 1,329 last week, according to Baker Hughes Inc., a Houston oil-services company.”
  http://business.financialpost.com/2012/04/10/crude-inventories-rise-to-22-year-high-in-survey/
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:57pm
It’s Bush’s fault.

Oops….. correction;

It’s Romney’s fault now.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:14pm
  Hi MONK, LOL, trouble is that it will only continue to climb until somebody else enters the White House.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:24pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  I’m afraid you’re right about that.
  
  I just hope that the progressives in Califonacateia wake up and smell the petrol fumes and don’t bother voting.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:31pm
  Yeah MONK, and really soon too.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:14pm
  Feds fault. inflation sucks. o well hopefully historical blowback will strike them once again.
  
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Jezreel
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:56pm
I am hoping and praying that God uses this to switch democrats to vote for Romney.

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- iampraying4u
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 10:51am
  Who cares what the demarats do they are brain dead anyway
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:55pm
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Holly-Weird is at it again. Moron Daryl Hannah was arrested in Texas on Thursday, for protesting an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

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- pissantno.10
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:49pm
  it is all tom hanks fault he just did not do the mermaid right and then tom is a woosy so poor hana needs a man. to spin those eye balls around a time or two
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:51pm
The word is out…..

Jed Clampett is moving back East.

Even he can’t afford the gas.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Hi MONK, LOL again, ain’t that the truth?
  
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Azzman
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:50pm
Obama = Carter. November 1980 = November 2012.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:50pm
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Obama, drill here, drill now, and install that pipeline from Canada to the U.S.

We have the resources, but Obama is constantly blocking us from having our own oil supply. He wants us to remain dependent on foreign oil.

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- drs1969
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:30pm
  Oil Companies are behind the reg’s. It drives out competition. They just happen to get get in the MEast, because it’s a lot cheaper to extract there, unfortunately.
  
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1956
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:48pm
Why are the Californians whining? Isn’t this what Obama wanted anyway? If CA doesn’t want these prices, then stop supporting the idiot who will make sure the prices hit these highs and higher if he stays in office.

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- Shasta
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:15pm
  There is a bunch of us in California that do not support these idiot democrats in California or the federal government. But we are out numbered. Certainly it is self-defeating to have government policies that raise the price of gas, and push business out of the state, but these folks don’t care. Ok, so now you are going to tell me to stop complaining and move. Can’t. I did not sell my house in time. Before the democrats like Dodd and Franks, and the likes of Acorn destroyed the housing market. So I can’t move unless you believe that my mortgage company will be happy to settle for what my house is now worth.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:54pm
  do the math it may be better to walk away. some many people have all ready. one day it may not count aginst you.
  
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:46pm
Just another reason to fire obama. and than get rid of the rest of the liberal idiots.

Let Us Pray
Psalm 2008-2012

Barack Obama is my shepherd, I shall not want. He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my faith in the Republican Party. He guideth me in the path of unemployment. Yea, though I walk in the valley of the breadline, I shall not go hungry. Obama has anointed my income with taxes. My expenses runneth over my income. Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of my life. The democrats and I will live in a rented house forever. But, I am glad I am an American. I am glad I am free. But, I wish I was a dog, and Barack Obama was a tree.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:01pm
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  You said, “I wish I was a dog, and Barack Obama was a tree.”
  I love it. Thanks for making me smile. God bless.
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:21pm
  And God Bless you!
  
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- Rajabear1
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:29pm
  Creative, funny, scary and true. May I pass this on to my 2 kids so they can have it ‘go viral’ with their age group? They are amazing on ‘beating down the liberal beast’ and constantly battle (and often win) to bring truth and real enlightenment to HS and college age kids, bring them around to a right way of thinking…I think they would use this wisely.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:46pm
All the refinery problems are contrived and/or man-caused. The only hope is people will blame the Obama admin. for this and either vote for Romney or not show up to vote at all.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:43pm
“We need a president who’s fighting for the American worker, the American family at the fuel pumps to lower the price of gasoline in the United States.” John Kerry
“The price of oil is at the doorstep; $4-plus per gallon for oil is attributed to two oilmen in the White House and their protectors in the United States Senate.” Nancy Pelosi
“When President Bush took office, gas prices were less than half of what they are today – and oil was less than one-third. Then, seven years ago, President Bush and Vice President Cheney secretly invited executives from the big oil and big energy companies to the White House…”-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)

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TJexcite
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:43pm
They have been touting the reduction of drunk driving by college age people. That is because one can not afford the gas and liquor.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:51pm
  Maybe Barry can explain why he won’t allow oil companies to exploit the 1.5 trillion barrels of shale oil we have here in the US.
  
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OperationNorthwoods
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:42pm
I’d like this to be addressed at the next debate. If they don’t, then Romney better bring it up.

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davetrav
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:41pm
Keep Obama in office and see whats next—Obama said two years ago that he wanted tom see gas at $ 7.00 a gal. You can’t keep getting milk out of a rock—we need jobs—VOTE OBAMA OUT—HELP HEAL AMERICA FOR OUR KIDS AND GRAND KIDS FUTURE IF TGEY STILL HAVE ONE.

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endthemindlessspending
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:40pm
How can anyone still be supporting this president and be proud of where things are going? It blows my mind how blind people can be to something right in front of their face. The only way green energy will be competitive is by making everything else much more expensive. Yet they follow progressives like they are making everything affordable. I Pray they wake up before its too late.

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LTinUT
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:33pm
I filled up at Costco in Utah this morning. $3.49. A tanker was refilling the Costco tanks while I was there and I heard the driver commenting to the attendant that he didn’t know how Costco was selling gas so cheaply compared to other stations in the area. The lines were long and I could only afford to fill half the tank. Another example of Obama’s Economy Tax.

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- PhotoLisa
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 1:47am
  I’d give my left arm for gas at that price here. I put gas in my car a week ago Friday… I’ve got a 1/4 tank left. I’m praying that I can get to work and back for the next 4 days on what’s in the tank. Thankfully I work only 8 miles from home. When I got gas last week it was $4.02 which was down from what it has been. Now that same station was at $4.59 on Friday… I haven’t been past it in the last couple days, but according to the news reports I would think it’s around $4.75 by now. That is plain old 87 unleaded. Was supposed to go to San Diego next weekend for an event… not gonna happen now. :(
  
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:25pm
Looks like its time to buy Barry’s Majic Windmill Car.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:48pm
  That’s the point of this exercise,to get everybody out of normal size vehicles and into POS clown cars that nobody wants. Barry is a pole puffing idiot who read a book about Marxism and thought it was a good idea. He decided to experiment on us and now we’re all paying for this fraud POS and his F ed up ideology.
  
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cliKKer
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:25pm
This is EXACTLY what Liberal Progressive Polices get you. Either you get horrible economic policies… or the Police department tells the citizens to abandon their cities (Detroit). Or sell their children and their futures (China debt and Chicago Teacher unions). What I don’t understand is why we keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome? Jimmy Carter was not an “oops” that happened for no apparent reason.

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