{"id":1248,"date":"2018-05-12T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2018-05-12T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T15:38:36","slug":"blame-your-states-governor-for-gas-prices-not-trump-or-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Blame your state&#8217;s governor for gas prices, not Trump or Obama."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t blame presidents for local summer gas prices. Governor Malloy and State legislators in both parties are to blame here, and I trust that the other 49 states have similar issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GasPricesForTheGovernor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1103\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GasPricesForTheGovernor-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GasPricesForTheGovernor-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GasPricesForTheGovernor-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014 I caught Governor Malloy in a lie right in a coffee shop, right in front of the New London Day newspaper, and he responded by dropping Groton&#8217;s gas prices for 5 or 6 months. It was nice while it lasted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RjFeY6uoEp\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1102\">Asking Governor&#8217;s Promise He&#8217;ll Represent People Who Pay At The Pump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Asking Governor&#8217;s Promise He&#8217;ll Represent People Who Pay At The Pump&#8221; &#8212; Muffin Bottoms\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1102&#038;embed=true#?secret=wzBy0KHybs#?secret=RjFeY6uoEp\" data-secret=\"RjFeY6uoEp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During his visit at Muddy Waters, Marc Frucht of Groton slipped Malloy a card with a list of gas prices, hoping he could inspire an investigation into price gouging.<br \/>\n&#8220;Right now we have the highest gas prices in the state,&#8221; Frucht said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth investigating. He said he was going to look at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theday.com\/article\/20140818\/NWS12\/140819700\">https:\/\/www.theday.com\/article\/20140818\/NWS12\/140819700<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well now that gas prices are soaring again we all seem to be busy trying to blame either Donald Trump or Barak Obama.<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s a natural first reaction. But if we think it through maybe cooler heads will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave all that behind this round, and ask the following rhetorical question.<\/p>\n<p>How come New London CT&#8217;s gas prices are so much higher than Grotons, and how come Groton&#8217;s are higher than the rest of Connecticut?<\/p>\n<p>Again!<\/p>\n<p>10am 12may 2018 Cumberland Farms regular fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Groton 2.89 \/gal<br \/>\nNew London 3.06<br \/>\nWeathersfield 2.97<br \/>\nFairfield 3.11<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow! It looks to me this time that Hartford is even gouging Fairfield and passing on the savings to itself and Groton. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though. Gas was 230 something in Groton a few months ago people. Will it go past 4 dollars this time? We managed to keep it from doing that the last time. I&#8217;m not even cautiously optimistic this time. I&#8217;ll have to research this more deeply when I can, this just scratches the surface really.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nmarco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t blame presidents for local summer gas prices. Governor Malloy and State legislators in both parties are to blame here, and I trust that the other 49 states have similar issues. &nbsp; &nbsp; Back in 2014 I caught Governor Malloy in a lie right in a coffee shop, right in front of the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,10,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-mundane-or-sublime","category-news","category-oped","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}