09-23-2008, 01:40 PM
graylocks wrote:
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It's payback for all the years that Georgians have had cheaper gas. I've been living in Florida for the last 14 years, and every year at Christmas we drive up north to visit family. Gas was always a good 15 to 20 cents a gallon cheaper in Georgia.
cheaper gas than whom? i travel a lot; missouri wins for the cheapest state gas price my driving takes me to. sounds like you're pissed at georgia when perhaps you should direct your ire to your own state and local officials. that's where mine goes whenever i consider Missouri.
It was certainly cheaper here than in Florida for many years. I used to "commute" to Atlanta from northwest Florida on the weekends (1999-2000 or so), and Atlanta consistently had the cheapest gas of anywhere I passed through. I still fondly recall finding $0.78 unleaded at a QT up around Fulton Industrial about the time I moved here for good (2001).
Not the case any more, though. The ATL gas stations decided price wars were for saps about the time of Katrina, and we've been on the high side ever since.