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$100 Fill-Ups Arrive at Gas Pumps

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- 212 days ago - cnn.com

Noel Bosse and Ken Davis watch as the numbers keep spinning at the gas pump -- 70 bucks, 80 bucks. Gulp, guzzle, then it stops: $101 for about 25 gallons. The $100 fill-up has arrived in the United States.

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Melva H. (48)

Wednesday April 23, 2008, 11:56 am
Well, Cheney and Bush need the money...

Hans L. (1033)

Wednesday April 23, 2008, 12:13 pm
Fuel is way to cheap in the USA! It should cost at least twice as much!
25 Gallons should cost you 236 Dollar that is the price you have to pay in Europe ! Today with the price per liter at 1,56 Euro and the EURO Dollar at a new all time high of 1,60!
But here more than 60 % is realy tax! And only a very small part is realy
for the poor Sheiks who can bath in OIL!
Last year i have been travelling in Europe with a friend from Bahrain his first fill up in Europe has been 110 Euro and he was schocked since he only pays 10-12 Dollar in Bahrain! Its allways how you look at it!
It will be way more expensive with a priceexplosion in 2015! Price will go up like gold now! Enjoy your Hummers and 8 Cylinder 6.0 Liter engines that nobody needs!

Joycey B. (528)

Wednesday April 23, 2008, 5:26 pm
I am so infuriated with this.

Estella Ameigh (25)

Thursday April 24, 2008, 10:15 am
When people live in rural areas and have low paying jobs with high taxes and high utility bills these high gas prices are like the straw that broke
the camels back. The farmers in our area struggle to buy the fuel for tractors to get the crops planted and pray that they will grow so there will be a profit at the end of the season. Please try to understand that
there are young parents working at jobs that pay less than $8.00 an hour and they are trying to pay rents in the $400 - $750 a month with high utility bills on top of that. Gas & electric this area last few cold months
ran $200 - $300 per month for a small place. Add to that the up keep of a vehicle just to get to work and back and they hope to have enough left to buy groceries and pay the telephone bill. They hope no one needs to go see
the doctor because most of them have no insurance. I feel very fortunate that my husband has health insurance through his work. Last visit to a doctor was a $20.00 co-pay instead of the $112.00 fee that we would have had to pay if we did not have the insurance. We pay big premiums for this, but we don't feel at our age we can afford not to have it. I see the daily
struggles of our daughters trying to make ends meet. We just helped a daughter move because her rent went up again and even working three jobs
she just couldn't afford to stay there and pay for everything herself. She
will have a walk to public transportation every day and a long ride from one city to the city in which she works, but at least there is hope she won't have to work so many hours. Our other daughter has two children and is up in the wee hours of the morning to go open a well known fast food place. Always a juggle for her to take care of the kids and make sure the sitter is available, the lunches are packed and that both of them can get to their jobs on time and have the return pick up of children schedule planned. They do not need the worry of how do we afford to get to work and back. We do what we can to save where ever we can so we can help our family through these "high price" times. There are many of our neighbors and friends who have less than us so we are grateful for all that we do have. I don't mean to ramble - just hope to shed a little light on what the
situation is like in this rural area. Thanks for trying to understand.

Penny Karn (0)

Thursday April 24, 2008, 12:35 pm
Well hold on to your hats people.....this is just one more example of the rapid decline of the great U.S.A. Everyone believes that what happened during the Great Deppression can never happen again......HA!.We are well on the road to it today.Just stop and take a good look at everything that is happening in this country today.Unemployment is at an all time high, the housing market is in the pooper, fuel prices are outrageous, which will trickle down to everything that we buy,and need...like FOOD!Hundreds of thousands of Americans are not making it now..bills are not getting paid, people are losing their homes and jobs left and right. People are standing in line for food stamps and other assistence programs.The American dollar isn't worth the paper its printed on, this Country is so far in debt....that our Great Grandchildrens children will be paying on it.The problems of this country have progressed to such an all time low, that the only possible thing left for it to do is collapse.....then and only then, perhaps, it can then rise up again to be the Great Country it once was. Much like a Phoenix. God help us all!

Deborah N. (32)

Thursday April 24, 2008, 5:04 pm
the only good part about this high gas is that maybe there will be less vacationers on the road .. with that high of gas .. think i rather stay at home this year as I have for the past 4 years in a roll...
I also believe we are on the road to the Depression also & I don't care what the Bush Administration is trying to smoke us into believing & if McCain gets office the USA is a gonna.. for sure..