Published: April 28, 2008 | Author: Krystina Orozco
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SAN FRANCISCO — If those little cable cars remain the city’s main form of transportation, there wouldn’t be a problem. But on Monday, April 21, U.S. gasoline prices topped the charts with a gallon of self-serve regular amounting to $3.50, constituting as the highest average price in the history of the national auto club’s recordings, said an AAA finding on CNN. Such costs originated from $2.85 a gallon only a year ago, climbing to $3.26 a month ago, and then to $3.49 from Sunday’s showing.
San Francisco is home to being the most expensive city in the United States when it comes to rising gas prices averaging at $3.97 a gallon according to a CNN report. And it is in part for this reason why California unfortunately gets dubbed as having “the nation’s highest average gas price” starting at $3.87 for regular unleaded where diesel is pushing to $4.43 a gallon, states Troy Green of AAA, the American Automobile Association.
Hercules resident and soon-to-be-mother Joanne Nuevo, who experiences a horrendous 50-mile commute from her hometown to her offices in San Mateo, feels the pain. “I use regular gas for my 2002 Eclipse, and it is so frustrating every time I have to fill it up. As a result of gas being so expensive, you limit the places you want to go. I get discouraged with driving to the city for my weekend plans. Even worse, visiting my family who are all based in Daly City gets interrupted,” she complained.
Nuevo’s accounting comes down to a soaring $160 per week estimating at $15 spent on gas one way plus a $4 toll. In light of the car industry as a whole, service advisor Mario Milleza Jr. of Vallejo noted an increasing number of customers complaining about their fuel mileage and the smaller amount of gas that goes into the tank after every fill-up. “They’re wondering whether it is working properly, not thinking that the root cause of the situation is high gas prices,” he said, mildly amused.
“In dealing with clients from Sacramento and all other parts of the greater Bay, they speak of how much they dread coming to the shop for service due to ridiculous gas prices,” Milleza added. “I’m actually boycotting gas stations that are importing Middle Eastern oil,” said former Daly City local Adelene Mulimbayan. “This is in relation to my personal views of the war going on in Iraq. Boycotting represents my non-approval and disagreement with the war and its effects on gas prices."
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Man, it's so funny how since April to August 2008, the price of crude jumped to its peak of $146/barrel or about $4.50 at the pump. Today, it's closed below $34/barrel, a more than 70% decrease in only 6 months. I haven't seen 1.80 prices at the pump since high school. Ironically, in a world of rising unemployment, low consumer sentiment, decreasing GDP, Wall Street bailouts, trillion-dollar federal deficits, Ponzi schemes, and massive world-wide recessions...it's good to know the one bright spot in this economy is that I could afford to fill up my car. Hollaaaa!
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