Sean Comey
Sean Comey
aftermath expect prices rather
With what's going on with the aftermath of the hurricane, I would expect prices to go up rather than down in September.
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September will probably be an extremely unpleasant month at the pump. This goes to show that even if you're far away from where the hurricane hit, there's a ripple effect.
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Young, inexperienced drivers are much more likely to be in fatal crashes at this time of year.
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Normally, that happens. There's no normal right now.
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It's only inexpensive compared to an all-time, record-high price.
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It costs more to make and it protects your air quality.
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Crude oil is more expensive than it was after Hurricane Katrina. And we haven't had a natural disaster that is causing these high prices.
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Consumers are numb to these high prices. Some of this is what the market will bear. Part of the problem with higher prices is we set a new benchmark in our mind and $3 is the new record.
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Supply and demand are so related, if we all just save a couple gallons here and there it will have a dramatic effect on price.
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It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.
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It's standard reasoning. When you have a commodity that's increased dramatically (in price), then it would attract the criminal element.
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Fuel consumption rises two percent every year in California; yet we haven't built a refinery in years and a number of them have even closed. But no one wants a refinery in their backyard.
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It's been brutal. We saw an unprecedented increase in the cost of gasoline, pushing past the $3 per gallon level, but we are starting to see prices creeping back down again.
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It is a tough crowd to try to convince. The message about what will happen, as far as how much money it will cost them and how they will lose their driving privileges if they get busted, seems to have more of an impact than (the message of) saving lives and preventing injuries.