That station has been there about 40 years. I was a kid when I started going in there when I was living in the City and working at Carl Company. Used to get my car fixed there as well. The owner was always nice and friendly and didn't rip you off. I do not have a problem accessing it.
The DEMS did not pass one energy bill in the last Congress. Thank you Taxin' Tonko for your bold leadership on this issue-lol. Obama and his administration will not be happy until gas hits $5 a gallon. He stated he wants gas prices to go up more. He's too stunad to understand the horrible impact on the economy.
The high gas price will be just one more reason to eliminate the "Hope and Change" gang.
Was it a reason to "eliminate" the Mission Accomplished Gang??? Although the price of oil is expected to rise, the reason is instability in the Middle East, not Supply & Demand.
Gas Prices by year 2005 - 2011
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
In 2 years only how many drilling permits have been issued, not many, and yet The USA is being held hostage by the turmoil in the middle east when we have all the oil we could possibly ever need right here in the good old USA. 2007 thru 2011 Democrats controlled Congress so what's your point?
@Shadow, the Obama administration just granted drilling access to a company in the Gulf today. And the fact is that we get half of our oil from ourselves and most of the rest from the Western Hemisphere, not the Middle East.
In 2 years only how many drilling permits have been issued, not many, and yet The USA is being held hostage by the turmoil in the middle east when we have all the oil we could possibly ever need right here in the good old USA. 2007 thru 2011 Democrats controlled Congress so what's your point?
Just think if we did what Shadow wanted and Drilled Baby Drilled!! Suppose we Started Drilling in the Reagan years... and drilled for the last 30 years. We would have consumed much of our easy to get at, lower price oil, and now we'd have much less in reserve for when the REAL shortages begin.
The USA will never be held hostage for oil as long as we are sitting on a reasonable reserve... but if we took Shadows advice... the US oil reserve would be much closer to Empty. Instead we let the Arabs pump their oil at what... $20, $30 or $40 a barrel instead of today's price of $100.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Bush is a greedy oil guy, that's why the prices are going up. And we're in Afghanistan and Iraq because Cheany used to be a Halliburton executive. Oh yeah, they're not if office anymore. I guess we'll have to go with Obama's incompetent.
The report of people in the oil business say it will take 10 years to put new oil wells on line if we start now and when was the last oil refinery built in the USA. We don't have enough oil to use right now if the need arises and even if we did we don't have the capacity in the refineries to do the job. I believe in being prepared and not to be at the mercy of any nation. Obama said when he was campaigning that he was for all forms of energy but to date only pushes his green energy which is crap. No nuclear, natural gas, or oil power generating plants being built. We have many forms of energy available besides oil so why doesn't the government let us use our own resources. Half of the oil we pump goes overseas to people who pay more money for it than we do. I was ready to vote Bush out of office when gas hit $4 a gallon and for more reasons than that too. In the 70's when gas was artificially denied in order to drive the price per gallon up some of those oil company execs should have done jail time. I am for drilling and using any type of energy we have in this country if it means that people can have a job and raise their families which is what would happen if the government would let people go to work in all energy fields.
Alley--yes you are right about the Mobil gas on Altamont Avenue. It is still at 3.49. Cumberland has been higher right along. BT --no attention to detail.
Interestingly, some local folks did do time for violating the windfall profits. Cinelli who used to own the gas station on Altamont Ave across from the then ARCO/now Mobil had to return the money to the public. He did it under the guise of selling gas one day for .32. He even got national coverage that day. Fact was he was ordered by the court to return the money to the public.
So some folks on a smaller scale did get in trouble back then. I don't think going green is crap.
In the 70's when gas was artificially denied in order to drive the price per gallon up some of those oil company execs should have done jail time.
We are reliving the 70's! Except back then they were screaming an impeding ice age!! And I'm sure inflation AGAIN will be the next chapter in u.s. history.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Cicero all that is true. Bush is to blame for plenty that is wrong.
If that helps you simplify and make sense of the world to help you sleep at night, I won't argue.
Liberals mocked Bush as a stupid man, yet in the same breath - Bush controlled every event that happened in the world. He even controlled the complex global markets. Simpletons...
Bush was an idiot who knew how to make money. Make war--make money. An oil man in the White Hous--we all should have bought stock in oil. Yeah he was pretty simple--and Cheney dangerous.
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The DEMS did not pass one energy bill in the last Congress. Thank you Taxin' Tonko for your bold leadership on this issue-lol. Obama and his administration will not be happy until gas hits $5 a gallon. He stated he wants gas prices to go up more. He's too stunad to understand the horrible impact on the economy. 
