Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Gas Prices - like the change?

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This image is making the rounds in an email that just arrived in my Inbox today.

I did notice the effect on local gas prices of the recent article in The Woodstock Independent about the price-gouging in Woodstock. Thanks, TWI!

But we're still more than $2.00/gallon above where we were four years ago. That's a 100% increase in gas price.

Not the kind of "change" America wanted.

2 comments:

Steve said...

Gus... as much as I'd love to jump on the Idiot in Chief and make him look worse than he makes himself look, you might want to do some research (I know you hate facts and stuff) and learn that in July 2008 (during the term of Bush II)gasoline hit a then, all-time high of $4.11. Yeah, four years later gasoline has surpassed that figure a few times but it's currently less. The figures posted in your photoshopped image are, however, accurate for January 2009.

Gus said...

Thanks, Steve. I just checked my Fuel Log on gasbuddy.com. On January 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, I paid $1.959/gal. in Woodstock, Ill.

Earlier that month (1/3/09), I paid $1.699/gal.

Your July 2008 figure is correct, too. Thanks.