AUGUSTA, Maine — The average cost of a gallon of gas in Maine has crossed the $4 threshold.
Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail cost rose nearly four cents per gallon in the past week to $4.01.
The national average rose just over two cents in the past week to an average of $3.86 per gallon.
Current prices are now 31 cents per gallon more than at the same time last year and 19 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
The lowest price reported on GasBuddy was $3.88 per gallon in Biddeford in York County, and the highest was $4.19 per gallon in Madawaska in Aroostook County.
That should do Maine in rather quickly.
Good job, banksters!
Obama’s Failed Leadership:
Progress” isn’t exactly how Obama described the country’s energy picture in 2008, when gas prices were closing in on $4 a gallon. Then, it was a clear sign of “Washington’s failure to lead on energy,” which was “turning the middle-class squeeze into a devastating vise-grip for millions of Americans.”
“For the well-off in this country,” Obama said in May 2008, “high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they’re a huge problem, bordering on a crisis.”
Lets see, Obama is against the pipeline, which, if built, would make the oil companies billions. Oil going through said pipeline is not for American consumption, so it does little to lower gas prices. The President who is against the pipeline is up for re-election. Kind of stands to reason that Big Oil will do what they can, i.e. raise pump prices, to make the President against the pipeline look bad, and get someone more amiable to their pipeline into office.
Back in the spring Gas was $3.35 per gallon and the Bangor Daily ran an article saying we could thank Obama for the lower energy. Now they are very silent. lol.
Yes, remember the relentless media drone last time gas prices were this high? Barely a peep about it now. The media has been totally corrupted by a liberal political agenda.
Business 101, drop the price of fuel and people will be able to live! Government has crippled this country and will continue to do so! Americans can no longer afford to live like this. Employers are going out of business by the minute! Spend millions in Campaigns, Overseas, and Americans are suffering really bad! Get A Clue!!!
the $S. they wast is a disgrace-show me an honest polition and i will show you an unimployed 1
Just get some free Obama money. Duh.
National average, $3.86, in Maine $4.01 Always funny how Maine ends up being higher then a national average.
What’s there not to get? If you’re going by supply and demand economics, Maine has a smaller and more spread out market/demand so prices are higher. Consumers also have to pay more since they have less choices in the smaller towns.
Plus shipping it all the way to Madawaska has a lot to do with the price.
Vote Obama, $10 a gallon by 2016!
i just returned home from driving from Michigan this morning. Michigan $4.09. Ohio $4.05. New York $4.14. PA $3.95.
Indiana $4.12. New Hampshire $3.83. Maine $3.99.
As we all know, the President of the United States sets our gasoline prices.
Sigh.
It seemed like just a few years ago, it was all Bush’s fault, now it’s Obama’s fault, I wish them Presidents would quit waking up and screwing with the gas prices and do something else.
Its is unreal that Gov. Lepage has done NOTHING to help the Maine Taxpayers on this problem or maybe he does not see it when he’s not paying for his gas. Lepage weak up and smell the rose’s.
Yes I agree……time for the Gov. to weak up and lower gas prices…..
Lepage seems to be able to run his mouth about everyting else. But you never hear him talk about the gas problem. I don’t need EBT cards or Maine care but that all he runs his mouth about. It seems to be running like Mardens.
You do realize that the Gov. has absolutely no influence over gas prices?? Maybe not…..
Are you making fun of me and my post???
Reality check……
Mama, weak up!
Weak up,I am just saying you never see Lepage say a thing about the price of gas and oil. But I am aweak!!!!
The President certainly doesn’t set gas prices but his policies do influence them. In 2008, Obama promised that energy prices would rise significantly under his plan. That was a promise he actually delivered on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqHL404zhcU