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Check Your Pressure

December 12, 2000	$1.42	White smoke indicates Supreme Court has chosen new president.
April 30, 2001	$1.62	Cheney: “Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.”
August 6, 2001	$1.37	"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
September 11, 2001	$1.52	Bin Laden strikes in U.S.
September 11, 2001, 2:40 p.m.	$1.52	Rumsfeld: "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. at same time."
October 7, 2002	$1.43	Bush: "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
March 27, 2003	$1.64	Wolfowitz: "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
April 11, 2003	$1.59	Rumsfeld: "Stuff happens."
May 17, 2004	$2.01	Colin Powell, responding to Seymour Hersh’s report that Abu Ghraib was not an accident: "Watch America — watch how we deal with this."
April 20, 2005	$2.23	Bush: "I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow. I’d do that. Unfortunately higher gas prices are a problem that had been years in the making."
August 15, 2005	$2.55	The corner Mobil posts a sign explaining that adjusted for inflation, 1981 gas cost $3 per gallon…
September 5, 2005	$3.06	…but the sign soon disappears.
December 11, 2006	$2.29	"Access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030." (2007 annual report, Energy Information Administration)
September 20, 2007	$2.78	The U.S. dollar drops to parity with the Canadian loonie for the first time since 1976. The Canadian dollar was worth 62 cents in January 2002.
February 28, 2008	$3.13	Bush: "You’re predicting $4 a gallon gasoline? That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that."
May 20, 2008	$3.79	Newt Gingrich announces "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less"
July 21, 2008	$4.06	McCain attack ad: "Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?"
July 31, 2008	$3.95	AP: "Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history."

U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices [DoE]

nojo
7:00 am • Monday • August 11, 2008
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