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Retrograde

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7. Or the price of gas/groceries without location

Reply to crud (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 01:11 PM

8 hrs ago

“gas is $4/gal!” from someone in Texas isn’t going to get much sympathy from Californian who wish it were that low.

(Is anyone else old enough to remember “slightly higher west of the Rockies”?)

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