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Washington and Oregon get tepid gas price rise instead of expeditious increase

GasBuddy Blog -- Washington and Oregon motorists- while you're not lucky in the fact prices in the nation are among the highest in your area, you certainly are lucky that prices are ever so slow to rise instead of a quick all at once hike that we had expected.

About a week ago, we warned media and motorists that prices were going to rise quite quickly out in Oregon and Washington. We decided to make the rare step of issuing an alert for these two states. We expected that stations could raise prices over the following few days 10-35c/gal. Some stations did rise 10-15c/gal over the next few days, and nearly none hiked towards to top side of our estimations. That's the good news- it wasn't as fast as an increase as we thought.

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Submitted May 30, 2012 By: PD

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TheThorn All-Star Author South Carolina Posts:824 Points:785,940 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: May 31, 2012 1:52:05 PM Ignore TheThorn Report Abuse i'm with OKRifle. this is a lot like putting the frog in the pot and slowly raising the heat
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livedream Champion Author Michigan Posts:3,690 Points:756,035 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: May 31, 2012 1:12:40 PM Ignore livedream Report Abuse "So while our dire predictions were somewhat correct, the worst wasn't nearly as bad as we thought it would be..." Predictions are problematic in that there IS NO CRYSTAL BALL that will let you see the future. Of course predictions will be inaccurate! Predictions are a senseless waste of time!
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