While Connecticut has ceded the dubious distinction of having the most expensive average gasoline prices in the continental United States to Illinois, pump prices have increased eight cents in the past week to an average of $3.90 per gallon for unleaded regular in the Nutmeg State, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
Nationally, the average price for regular gasoline has increased 13 cents in the past week, to $3.63 per gallon. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
The increasing national average highlights the broad trend of higher pump prices due to rising global crude oil prices, much more expensive domestic ethanol as a result of the current Midwestern drought, and an increase in demand due to the summer driving season. However, looking at prices for individual states during this period reveals that regional price trends have varied dramatically.
As headlines focused on the largest July increase for the national average retail gas price in more than a dozen years, drivers in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Western U.S. have actually seen prices decline over the last month. This price relief has come as refining and distribution issues have been resolved. The onset of these issues had pressured prices in the region higher late this spring—even as the national average retail price was falling. The downward pressure on regional prices from these issues being resolved has been enough to outweigh the upward pressure on prices that has sent the national average higher over the past month.
Arizona now has the least expensive average gasoline price in the country at $3.29 per gallon.
Meanwhile, in Connecticut, we’re still paying less to fill up than we were a year ago, when the statewide average was $4.03.
No , of course not, J, you're nose is growwwwwwing.
And does it say "J" on your birth certificate. It's ok that you can accuse others of being bigots with out any proof and use initials for your name, but if somebody calls you on it you run and tell mommy!
"As versions of internet trolls, Read about what Steve and PC accomplish in their respective approaches to posting. http://theweek.com/article/index/228295/thenbsptrolls-of-the-internet-a-guide " J's article says; "What are trolls? They’re the anonymous provocateurs who flood the internet with inflammatory insults, threats, and profanity." J, please provide examples where Steve or PC used inflammatory insults, threats or profanity?
Replete with dozens and dozens of references to posters as communist/Marxist ideologues, and calling them "comrades" and similar inflammatory rhetoric.
Just as any other good or service, I think you should only pay for what you want to use. Why would anyone pay for something that they don't want, don't need, and won't use? It's like going out for dinner and being told that you must order a round of drinks for everyone in the room. Why would you do that? Furthermore, why would anyone possibly oppose paying for only what they use? The only people opposed to this are people who would be using the service the most. If people had to pay a proportional amount to what they use, then they would certainly pay a lot more if they use the roads a lot and they might not have to pay anything if they never use the road at all. This change would result in true market forces at work. This would mean that more people would carpool, ride bikes, and live closer to their work. The numbers right now are extremely skewed now because of the department of transportation. Lastly, this might not have worked so easily long ago, but now you can slap a "speedpass" type device on your car for pay as you go.
Again J, where are the "insults, threats, and profanity" or "inflammatory rhetoric" you mention? You still fail to cite any. You made the accusations, why don't you simply cite your proof. Simply provide quotes. Calling someone a "communist," or accusing someone of having "Marxist ideology" is not an "insult, threat or profanity" especially if the target espouses or believes in those things. I wouldn't think that Karl Marx or Fidel Castro think that calling someone of a Marxist is a bad thing, nor might Vladimir Putin, so why do you? There are many socialist professors in colleges who are proud of it. Many of our presidents and celebrities were/are Marxists. Many Americans are socialists. And, doesn't comrade mean "friend," yet you cite this word as proof of profanity and proof that Paul and I are trolls? Paul may have been sarcastic and said things that you disagree with and don't like, but to call him or anyone a bigot or a troll based on the things you have offered up as evidence (and you haven't offered any) hardly substantiates your claim. It may be that you just don't like what some people, like Paul or myself say, and that's ok, but isn't it better to rationally explain why you disagree rather than just call names and make baseless accusations?
I don't really get it. I have libertarian views and I would never be ashamed if someone called me a libertarian or a freedom lover. I know many people don't believe in the level of freedom as I do, and that's too bad, but at least man up and admit it when that's the case.
"It is hard pressed to say that anyone is to the post when most posts used the max number of characters available." Again J, you make no sense and no substantiation to your claims. If you can't back up what you say, you shouldn't say it.
"It is hard pressed to say that anyone is to the POINT when most posts [of his] use the max number of characters available."
(from a report that came out this past May) What's interesting is the Canada, on avg., has a higher per gallon price than we do and they are the largest supplier of oil/gas to the US. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/united-states-low-gas-prices_n_1518169.html
I haven't had time to read every post so if something like this is posted,skip it. WHY DO WE EVEN USE GAS? Cars today don't need to use gas, electricity, solar and other fuels have been developed, yet Detriot and Japan keep rolling out the gas users.WE need ,as a people, to say no even if it means short term problems for us. How about no buying any cars for a year....car companys would take notice.The real proplem is the gas companies and their investment in fossil fuels.Those s.o.b.'s would lobby (and have) to keep the status quo.Thus it comes down to lawmakers to have some spine and force the issue to convert. None of this will happen however, too much greed and no guts!
The problem is government. The problem is car regulation which requires cars to meet extremely narrow specifications. The other problem is believing that even $4 gasoline is sustainable. Did you know there are cars in the world that run on compressed air? Yes, of course, energy is consumed to compress the air, but what it comes down to is that it runs more efficiently and gets better gas mileage. Also, you can create compressed air fuel in very many ways. You can not produce more gasoline... There have been many inventions for alternative fuel sources but every single time they just get bought up by the big names in the gasoline business. I like the idea of compressed air as well as a car that runs on hydrogen. These are ideas that people have come up with, NOT ideas that government has come up with. The electric car is a government planned, subsidized, approved, advertised, propped up plan. They WANT you to use the electric car. They do NOT want you to use the compressed air car. They do NOT want you to use a water car either. In this case, government IS THE PROBLEM.
Natural gas does emit emit both carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide, when burned; additionally, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide are also released when natural gas is burned. However, the amount of pounds of these harmful pollutants released per billion BTU of energy input is much less than oil or coal. In addition, there is no mercury released with natural gas, or particulate matter. I'm with you that we need to be more reliant on our own natural resources for energy, and durable goods as well.
Buy when the six month trend goes the lowest! Plan your travels!
The answer (Wilipedia): The United States has the largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world with an estimated 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2007 DOT study. The question: Cars today don't need to use gas, electricity, solar and other fuels have been developed, yet Detriot and Japan keep rolling out the gas users. The answer: Detroit has rolled out the $40,000 electric Chevy Volt. Nissanhas rolled out the $35,000 electric Nissan Leaf. Go out and buy one. I would if I could afford one. Then figure out where you are going to get FREE electricity to power it? Electricity is expensive and in short supply. There is a shortage of electric power in California. The environmentalists in the United States will not let Obama build a new Nuclear power plant, a new coal fired electric plant or a new oil fired electric plant. So where are we going to get the electricity to power 254.4 million electric cars? We should be drilling for oil and natural gas in the United States. Americas has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.