Gasoline Price Highest Ever at Christmas

[lovuian]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041220/bs_nm/energy_gasoline_price_dc

Gasoline Price Highest Ever at Christmas

Mon Dec 20, 4:56 PM ET Business - Reuters


By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While U.S. retail gasoline prices have declined for seven weeks in a row, they are still at the highest level ever recorded by the government heading into the busy Christmas travel week, the Energy Department said on Monday.





The national pump price for regular unleaded gasoline fell 3.2 cents over the last week to $1.815 a gallon, up 33 cents from a year ago, according to a survey of service stations by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.


A record 62.7 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this Christmas and New Year's Day, according to the AAA motorist club. About 50.9 million of those travelers, or 81 percent, will go by auto, up 3 percent from last year.

When adjusted for inflation the price for gasoline was at its highest in 1981 at close to $3 a gallon.

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Merry Christmas from Bush!!!

[NMDemDist2]

1. i'm just grateful it's dropped 20 cents in the last month

my gas bills were killing me

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. How Do the @$$hole Rethugs

who like to brag gratuitously about running over living things with their SUVs feel now? Heh heh. Merry Xmas, Mofos! :)

[Demeter]

3. Fat and Happy

Seems like every one of those huge ugly gas-guzzlers has a bush sticker on it....

[DemoTex]

4. Merry Christmas Exxon-Mobil! Happy Holidays ChevronTexaco!

Enjoy it while you can. After the revolution you will pay a windfall profits tax (in addition to price controls on essential energy like home heating). And your CEOs will be in poorly heated jail cells with other energy-rapers, like Cheney.