Selective amnesia

[634-5789]

[SergeStorms]

1. I disliked Bush...

but those must all have been California pump prices, because we've never come close to $5 a gallon before where I live (western NY). We've never been near $4 a gallon before this year. Its $4.89 where I live right now. Let's be honest about our anger anyway. False anger is the other side's tactic.

I guess the American people can put mass murder of our children on the back burner, but they'll never stand for high gas prices.

What a sad freaking commentary on life (if you can keep it) in the United States. This country has its priorities so messed up it makes me ashamed to be an American.

[Scrivener7]

2. I'm in the NY metro area and we definitely had prices close to $5.

[MissMillie]

3. nope, I remember these prices well

My round-trip work commute back then was 120/day.

And I'm in New England

[SergeStorms]

5. My memory must be failing me then.

I honestly don't remember them being anywhere near this high. But if y'all say so, then......

[634-5789]

6. Illinois here...

2008 I was paying $3.89 for a couple months...

[SergeStorms]

7. That sounds reasonable...

I just can't remember cracking the $4 barrier here. And then the Bush family, remember Bandar Bush?, got their pals, the Saudis, to open up the spigots again and it was over. It didn't last long.

[UpInArms]

4. In 2006, we bought a pellet stove

To heat our house … diesel had gone to almost $4 a gallon … and we would need to fill our 500 gallon tank at least 3 times to get through the winter …

The stove, installation and the first ton of pellets cost $2000 …. One tank of diesel …

It takes 3 tons of pellets (approximately $800) to heat our house each winter.

I have never regretted our decision.

All that to say … of course I remember those prices … they went on for a long time.