I'm going to take this one at a time.
Originally posted by Rickson:
Plain and simple price gouging.
No.
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Gas ranges from $2.66- $3.45.Come on that is a huge range or pricing. If gas was all the same then it would be. Since i live in teh city trust don; make too far of a drive to deliver gas so why the high charge? Fine it is in some upper area's that gas is increased for more profit. Well it shouldn't be. Like prescription medicine it is controlled by the goverment. so should this!!
It was hard for me to figure out what you were trying to say because you have aweful grammar. Anyway, prices of everything in the city are higher. Fact of life. There are also different blends of gas in different states, sometimes from county to county. Some are more expensive than others. Prescription medicine being controlled by the government obviously isn't working very well when you can get the same drug for 1/3 of the price in Canada. Bad point.
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I am sorry. This is just insane and retarded that the bush administration won't put that foot down.I am a bush fan but he is [censored] [censored] up with not controling the gas prices. Our econonomy is [censored] can nobody can affort things anymore.
The average distance driven per car per year if 15,000 miles. If you get 20mpg then you use 750 gallons of gas a year. That means that I pay $1,500 a year more than I did when gas was $1 6 years ago. If you look at the AVERAGE person, it isn't much worse. I hope you make more than $1,500 a year more than you did 6 years ago. Granted, people who drive 120 miles a day are hurting, but how many of those people are there? Obviously they are the minority, and many of them could probably find some other way to cut costs.
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Yes our goverment shouldn't control the companies but should control the price. Especially since this is such a huge dmenad that our economy can cipple if it stops.
I don't know if I understand all that you wrote there. You confuse me.
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But when an idividual who makes minimum wage which is 5.75 and hour
5.15x40= 206 a wek-23.9% average charge for low income taxes overall.
=158.62 then lets say an average of 1 week fill up ofa 14.5 gallon tank car.
lets say 3.00x14.00 skip the extra half tank. 42$
158.62-42= $116.62 a week. is [censored] retarded. And since the bush administration turned down the recent proposal to increase minimum wage to 7.25. They can kiss my ass.
If you say who really makes that amount as low income individuals then you must know 32% according to recent CIA statistics. 
Aren't most people making minimum wage either kids on their first job or people who couldn't make more anyway? They likely don't go through $40 in gas a week now anyway. Hell, I only go through $30.
