Mass. gas prices up another 3 cents

Mass. gas prices up another 3 cents
BOSTON — Massachusetts Gas Prices have continued their recent upward trend, climbing another three cents in the past week. AAA Southern New England said Monday that it’s weekly survey found self-serve regular averaging $3.03 per gallon, the fourth consecutive week of higher prices. The price is a penny below the national average, but 44 cents more than at the same time last year. AAA found self-serve regular as l0ow as $2.94 and as high as $3.21. ...

Local Gas Prices Climb 8 Cents In Week
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Gas Prices in the Greenville area have climbed 8 cents during the past week, according to GasBuddy.com. The website said that the average price for a gallon of Gasoline is at $2.86 as of Monday, but that price is below the national average of $3.03 per gallon -- up 4.3 cents over last week. Monday's prices were 44.2 cents higher than the same day last year and 26.2 cents higher than a month ago, the website reported. Nationally, GasBuddy.com said, the average price for a gall...

Surprise: Obamacare Face-plants Out of the Gate
One of the first parts of the new Health Care law ready for consumers - special health plans devoted to the Insurance Industry's rejects - is attracting only a fraction of the predicted customers, prompting the Obama Administration and states to step up their strategies to motivate people to buy them. At the same time, since the plans opened for business in the late summer and early fall, the medical bills so far are, in at least a few states, much higher than anticipated, raising the question o...

'Octomom' faces eviction from Southern Calif. home
Los Angeles — The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he’s going ahead with Eviction proceedings because she hasn’t made a long overdue $450,000 payment. Amer Haddadin said he’ll evict Suleman if she and her lawyer Jeff Czech don’t pay the balance on the house by Friday. A balloon payment was due Oct. 9. "I think they have money, but they are hiding the money," Haddadin said. Suleman and Czech were served notice...

Investors Sought for LeBron's Birthday Party
LeBron James has hired a marketing firm to find backers willing to help fund his 26th birthday party on Dec. 30. The event has been dubbed the "Full Court Birthday Celebration." You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. I hear Obama tryi...

Will Obama Help Christians in Iraq?
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are fervently pressing the White House to stem mounting attacks on Christians in Iraq. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. I hear Obama trying to convince the American People that if we giv...

Op-Ed: Don't Spin the Civil War
The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to cloud our understanding of why the nation fell apart. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans wh...

Octomum facing eviction from home
Nadya Suleman, the American woman known as "Octomum," faces Eviction from her home in the New Year....

Octomom Outta the House?
The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he's going ahead with Eviction proceedings because she hasn't made a long overdue $450,000 payment. Amer Haddadin said he'll evict Suleman if she and her lawyer Jeff Czech don't pay the balance on the house by Friday. A balloon payment was due Oct. 9. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion o...

$290,000 a Year to Move a Musician's Chair
Columnist James Ahearn of New Jersey's Bergen Record has a great column today on, of all things, the stagehands at New York City's top Performing Arts venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. These are not highly skilled or technical jobs but take a gander at how much they are paid: At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand Salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance...

'Octomom' Faces Eviction From Southern California Home
Monday, December 27, 2010 By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Los Angeles (AP) - The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he's going ahead with Eviction proceedings because she hasn't made a long overdue $450,000 payment. Amer Haddadin said he'll evict Suleman if she and her lawyer Jeff Czech don't pay the balance on the house by Friday. A balloon payment was due Oct. 9. "I think they have money, but they are hiding the money," Haddadin...

EPA, Texas Go to War Over Carbon-Emission Rules
And so it begins, and on the most fertile red-state territory in the nation. Texas, which got four more seats in the House through the 2010 Census reapportionment, has had its air-quality rules superceded by the EPA as part of its aggressive new action on Carbon Emissions. Governor Rick Perry promises a fight. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought,...

Man Fined $500 for Cursing on Bus
A Milwaukee man said he thinks it's pretty darn ridiculous that he got fined $500 for swearing on a county bus. Terry Duncan said that he considers it un-American to get slapped with a $500 disorderly conduct fine for saying two words. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share the...

THREAT: Obama Must Convert to Islam or Attacks on U.S. Will Come
A leader of Somalia's Islamist Insurgency threatened to attack America during a Speech broadcast Monday. "We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country," said Fuad Mohamed "Shongole" Qalaf. Al-Shabab has not yet launched an attack outside Africa but Western intelligence has long been worried because the group targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment. About 20 have traveled to Somalia for training and at least three were used as Suicide Bombers ...

'Octomom' Nadya Suleman faces eviction
Los Angeles — The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he’s going ahead with Eviction proceedings because she hasn’t made a long overdue $450,000 payment. Amer Haddadin said he’ll evict Suleman if she and her lawyer Jeff Czech don’t pay the balance on the house by Friday. A balloon payment was due Oct. 9. "I think they have money, but they are hiding the money," Haddadin said. Suleman and Czech were served notice...

The First 11 State Pension Funds That Will Run Out of Money
Here's a shocker: The most immediate State Pension crises aren't in New York or California. They're in Middle America. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. ppppolls: One of our first 2011 polls will be in Nevada...who should we test...

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Someone much wiser than me once described the Palestinians as a people "who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." I've stolen the line many a time, but never once claimed it as my own. Likewise, the Boston Globe can be described as "never missing an opportunity to miss the point." Even when they are praising a good idea, they have to go out of the way to demonstrate that it's merely by happenstance, and they are still, at their core, utterly and staunchly and militantly wrong. For...

Travelers face misery as Northeast digs out
GOP favors Bankruptcy for states? Pin the Debt on the donkey! >>> that. if you watched any of the weather channel coverage over the past 24 hours , you saw Meteorologist Mike Seidel getting buffeted up in mass, as this storm swung into New England. mike has made it through the other end of the storm. mike, let's talk intensity. we have a place, elizabeth, New Jersey, a short drive through the tunnel from here, right alongside Newark airport . they got 31 inches of snow through that very severe...

'Snowicane' Paralyzes New York City, Boston as Mammoth Blizzard Rages Through US Northeast
© AccuWeather.com Facebook fan Scott M. It's like a storm surge only with snow in Bradley Beach, NJ courtesy of "Snowicane II." Mon. Dec., 27, 2010. A powerful winter storm slammed the I-95 corridor from Philadelphia to Boston on Sunday. Through today, the blizzard will bring travel to a standstill along the coastline of northern New England as well. The storm unleashed around a foot of snow and howling winds in cities and towns from Philadelphia through New York City to Boston as it adv...

Northeast digs out; SoCal preps for rain
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Forecasts of better weather Tuesday in the northeastern United States gave cold comfort to stranded air travelers and people shoveling several feet of snow. Officials in the Carolinas and Maine said five Deaths were reported in highway accidents during the storm, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Highways, despite being cleared, were icy and treacherous, and officials were advising drivers to stay off the roads if possible. The storm upended travel plans across the ...

Winter weather gives oil a boost
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Ongoing winter weather supported Oil Prices Tuesday morning, with a barrel of oil gaining 10 cents to $91.03 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. A weaker dollar also gave oil a boost, The Dollar index down 0.34 percent Tuesday, giving foreign buyers an advantage in commodities, like oil, which are priced in U.S. dollars. Heating Oil Prices shed 0.31 cents Tuesday to $2.5135 per gallon. Reformulated Gasoline blendstock lost 1.43 cents to $2.4063 per gallon. ...

Conn. Gov. Orders Emergency Center To Open For Storm
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has ordered the opening of the state’s emergency operations center to help officials respond to problems caused by a major Snow Storm headed to New England. Rell also said she will brief mayors and first selectmen during a Conference Call Sunday. State offices will be closed Monday for a Furlough day intended to cut spending, but the Governor said state plow operators took their Furlough day earlier in the year. As a result, the st...

Syracuse Gas Prices Up Nearly 20 Percent Since September
Gas Prices in the Syracuse, NY area have gone up nearly 20% since September, according to the Post Standard. Gas Prices have risen on average 18 percent this fall with some of the Most Expensive stations in Syracuse now selling gas for as much as $3.29 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.com.So far in this month alone, gas prices have risen a little more than 3 percent, according to the website that tracks gas prices entered in by consumers. I blame President Obama, and I don’t expect th...

Former Shell CEO says gas headed for 5 bucks per gallon
The former head of the Shell Oil Company stated Monday that with the current market price for a barrel of oil nearing $92 and headed for over $100, the price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. could hit $5 per gallon in the not-too-distant future.  Others have estimated an even worse scenario. As speculators began to note that the future price of oil was headed through the roof due to increased competition from developing nations such as China and India, and as a result of Obama Administration...

$5-a-gallon gas could be here by 2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, says Americans could be paying $5 for a gallon of Gasoline by 2012. In an interview with Platt's Energy Week television, Hofmeister predicted Gasoline prices will spike as the global demand for oil increases. Email Print Comment "I'm predicting actually the worst outcome over the next two years which takes us to 2012 with higher Gasoline prices," he said. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with Oil Price Informat...