<p>Free lunch frightening </p>
<p>[Bill</a> Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01182008/watch.html]Bill”>Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS)</p>
<p>as per the transcrpts</p>
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BILL MOYERS: But did you notice what happened when the Democrats briefly toyed with the idea of removing that tax break from the hedge fund and private equity managers Congress thought very briefly about removing it. And then the industry held a big party for-- Harry Reid, Senate Democratic majority leader down in Las Vegas, and he came back from that big party and said, “I don’t think we’ll be taking that up anytime soon.” </p>
<p>DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: The problem of the political donor class’s outsized influence and its grip on Congress is bipartisan. There’s one party in Washington. It’s the party of money. It has different wings and factions. But Washington is the party of money. And the wealthiest people in America, the large corporations in America, are busy milking the government for everything they can get. And you are paying the price of their free lunch."</p>
<p>[Bill</a> Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01182008/watch.html]Bill”>Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS)</p>
<p>Gas price is $4.25 up from $4.12 cents</p>
<p>ino.com has it at $138.14 (good site for commodity prices). Perhaps of more concern is the price of natural gas which has been steadily creeping up for quite some time.</p>
<p>$3.87 around the corner from me. It’s nice - there are far fewer cars on the road and my gas mileage has gone up due to less traffic.</p>
<p>Never mind the $4.39 from this morning. Tonight it’s $4.45. It’s not so much the higher cost that worries me, it’s the rate that it’s going up. I mean, six cents in 12 hours? Nine cents over night?</p>
<p>Drove home from synagogue earlier today – gas was $4.15. On the way down the same road half an hour later – we saw the attendant changing the sign to $4.17. I have seen anywhere from $3.97 to $4.34 within three miles of our house today. Zip code-based pricing is pretty blatant around here.</p>
<p>$3.95 today…probably over $4 by the end of the weekend.</p>
<p>$4.49 for regular unleaded down the street from my apartment. </p>
<p>I think last I heard from back home, down in the SoCal mountains, it was around $4.79. Yikes.</p>
<p>STOP COMPLAINING AND BUY A BICYCLE!!!</p>
<p>I commute 8 miles by bicycle everyday and I haven’t been in a car in a month. Instead of whining because your GMC yukkon XL is too expensive, go sell it! With the money you could make buy selling your car, and the money you could save by not buying gas for a year, you could buy a bike, and help a charity of your choice. You will have thousands in the long run, your life will be much more enjoyable, and you will get excercise.
I love it how you are willing to go with the national trend just because it is “easy.” Instead why dont you get off your ass and DO SOMETHING… </p>
<p>Ok… now I know a flaming/banning is coming, but maybe if you think about what I said for one second, you might consider it please.</p>
<p>Cincinnati, saw it as cheap as $3.77 today.</p>
<p>No big SUVs at our house. DH commutes via public transit, kids ride the buses. Wish the local roads were more bicycle-friendly. In some communities in our area, there are dedicated bike routes, but not around us. (On the other hand, there are four different bus routes that stop at the fringes of our subdivision.)</p>
<p>When we visited Amsterdam, we saw bike lots that looked just like the multi-level car garages we are so familiar with here. Thousands and thousands of bikes. No wonder the Dutch are so darned healthy!</p>
<p>Huguenot- Yes! Why not drill here in Alaska?! Many Alaskans really can’t understand why we aren’t drilling, but we are working on some natural gas pipeline options.</p>
<p>conbob - perhaps bicycles are more practical where you are, and I do know people here in Fairbanks proper who do it, but I still need to show up for work at 60 below, so I don’t think I’ll be committing to a bike in the winter! 
I have been using my trusty Trek, though, since we are well into summer.</p>
<p>I am really dreading this winter’s fuel bills! Yikes! Better invest in sweats and socks!</p>
<p>Price of gas in North Pole, AK - $4.29/gal for regular.</p>
<p>We’re near Hartford, CT – $4.29/$4.27 for regular at the “dueling” gas stations on opposite sides of the road nearest to us. We never buy gas at either place since it can up to $.10/gallon less in the next town. Probably $.30/gallon more in Fairfield County, where we moved from. Zone pricing is out of control around here.</p>
<p>$4.99 for the cheap stuff. It was at a station right off of I5 in central California.</p>
<p>upper 3.9X in Philadelphia. I have driven less than 100 miles in the past month. Living 3 miles from work and teleworking 3 days a week and not having the kid at home really cuts down on driving. I have no money to do anything if I do drive somewhere so what is the point of going somewhere. I used to drive around and go to yard sales on saturdays. I limit myself to 10 miles per excursion. All errands that must use the car are done on the way home from the office on the days I do go into work. I’m thrilled that I can walk to food shopping, bank, and some other errands.</p>
<p>Closest gas station 4.54 for regular unleaded. 4.43 at the less expensive station.
For the past few months we have been lucky to have a close by station change hands. The prices were about 10-12 cents less then anyone else. I noticed yesterday that they have fixed up the place and now are still slightly less then the other stations but not the bargain they were. I guess those prices were to lure us into going regularly to that station. They are also offering a discount for cash at that station. It is not something we have seen here in years.
I am definitely driving less.
My son who just got a job is getting a dose of reality when he realizes that the $10 bucks of gas he put in buys him just over 2 gallons and that doesn’t go very far. I think he is beginning to really think out his driving.
Location Central Coast Ca</p>
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<p>I think we all are.</p>
<p>H and I are lucky to work within a few miles of home, and our days of taxiing kids to after-school and weekend activities are over, so our gas bill is not hugely outrageous. But some friends of ours have two kids in sports (one in middle school and one in elementary) that require a lot of taxiing. Both parents work very close to home, the kids attend neighborhood schools, but the family gas bill last month was over $800 because of the kid activities and errands. Yikes! </p>
<p>If this keeps up, I can see families really having to redefine driving that is necessary and driving that is now a luxury. Club sports that require several trips a month to distant cities for tournaments or games may see parents saying forget about it.</p>
<p>Near SF—$4.79/gal…and when I filled out my FAFSA/IDOC it was $4.03-and I thought $4.03 was HIGH!</p>
<p>Continue to post those gas prices…</p>
<p>Just wanted to say that I agree with your comment about luxury vs. necessary driving, momof2inca. I really think that this is beyond stressing out the average family. It is not just gas for the car, but the energy bills for heating and A/C as well. It will be a true shock this winter. The average family will freeze in their own home. This is beyond sad.</p>
<p>I paid $4.11 for regular yesterday at Costco. Diesel in my town is now $5.08. Certainly not what I would wish for, but it could be worse – we could be in Europe where it’s significantly higher.</p>