By GARY COX   Aiken   5/25/2012 10:12 AM   

I would like to respond to an article in today's letter section about gas prices: My response is as follows: Gasoline has fallen to $3.24? If the price had gone up you would have blamed Bush. Obama has stopped the keystone pipeline, the drilling in ...

By JERRY SUNDT     5/22/2012 1:29 AM   

Have you noticed that the price of gasoline has fallen to $3.24? Let's hear it for President Obama! Let's re-elect him in November and see if he can bring it down even lower! Jerry Sundt Aiken

By BRUCE SMITH   Associated Press   5/22/2012 12:31 AM   

CHARLESTON -- As the first busy travel weekend of the summer season approaches, there was good news for South Carolina motorists Monday as AAA Carolinas reported that gas in the state was the cheapest in the nation. The statewide average for a gallon ...

By HALEY HUGHES   Staff writer   4/24/2012 11:13 PM   

Motorists have seen prices at the pump drop an average of 6 cents in the past week, providing some slight, albeit welcome, relief. AAA Carolina's Fuel Gauge put South Carolina's average on Tuesday at $3.65 per gallon, a 6-cent decrease from last week ...

  Associated Press   4/20/2012 8:46 PM   

NEW YORK  -- The worst is over, for now. Gasoline prices are starting to fall. After a four-month surge pushed gasoline to nearly $4 per gallon in early April, drivers, politicians and economists worried that gasoline prices might soar past all- ...

By JIM KUHNHENN   Associated Press   4/17/2012 9:47 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Barack Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal supervision of oil markets, increase penalties for market manipulation and empower regulators to increase the amo ...

By BRUCE SMITH   Associated Press   4/5/2012 10:50 AM   

CHARLESTON -- As South Carolinians take to the road for Easter and spring break vacations, they're paying about 15 cents more for a gallon of gas than last year. But the state's average price -- now about $3.73 -- is still among the lowest in the nat ...

By ANDY WINDHAM   Aiken   4/5/2012 10:24 AM   

Now that the cost of gasoline has gotten our attention, we might just want to listen to some common sense and logic. It should be obvious to everyone that our elites want us dependent on foreign oil and high prices. For many years, we have paid indep ...

By MERLAN P. HARNAGE   Aiken   4/5/2012 10:24 AM   

I have a suggestion for an interesting story for the Aiken Standard. I am wondering how much gas we consume and "waste" sitting in drive-throughs at fast food places. It occurred to me while I was sitting in the one the other night. I actually got ma ...

By BOB RORDAM     4/1/2012 8:08 PM   

Now I'm supposed to blame the president for increased gasoline prices. This is wrong. How do I know it is wrong? Fox News told me so. Through a series of interviews with knowledgeable people in the oil business, Bill O'Reilly concluded: 1. There was ...

By CHRIS KAHN   Associated Press   3/29/2012 10:33 AM   

NEW YORK -- A big shift is happening in Big Oil: an American giant now ranks behind a Chinese upstart. Exxon Mobil is no longer the world's biggest publicly traded producer of oil. For the first time, that distinction belongs to a 13-year-old Chinese ...

By AMY BANTON   Staff writer   3/28/2012 11:27 PM   

The pain at the pump will most likely worsen in the coming months. Gas prices are steadily rising and could be as high as $4 a gallon by the beginning of the summer, according to AAA Carolinas. In South Carolina, the current gas price average is $3.6 ...

By GARY L. RAMEY     3/28/2012 10:31 AM   

This past weekend I was put in a situation where I bought gasoline to help someone move. It wound up costing me $228 of the $250 I had available. I had intended to buy a new pair of boots with part of that money. Three years ago I would have been abl ...

Associated Press     3/23/2012 12:33 AM   

NEW YORK -- The price of oil dropped to its lowest level in a week after reports of a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing. Benchmark U.S. crude fell by $1.92 to end at $105.35 per barrel. It dipped as low as $104.50 earlier in the day, the lowest price ...

By JOHN ROGERS   Associated Press   3/22/2012 10:56 AM   

LOS ANGELES -- Families canceling vacations. Fishermen watching their profits burn up along with their boats' gasoline. Drivers buying only a few gallons of gas at a time because they can't afford to fill the tank. From all corners of the country, Am ...

By JONATHAN FAHEY   Associated Press   3/22/2012 10:53 AM   

NEW YORK -- Watching the numbers on the gas pump tick ever higher can boil the blood and lead the mind to wonder: Why are gasoline prices so high? Many stand accused, including oil companies, the president, Congress, and speculators on Wall Street. O ...

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER   Associated Press   3/17/2012 12:31 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Inflation remains tame throughout the U.S. economy, with one big exception: gas prices. Those higher prices haven't derailed a steadily improving economy. But if they surpass $4 or $5 a gallon, experts fear Americans could pull ba ...

By BRUCE SMITH   Associated Press   2/20/2012 12:30 AM   

CHARLESTON -- While an improving economy would seem to be good news for South Carolina's $14 billion tourism industry encouraging more people to travel, it's shadowed by rapidly rising gas prices that could hit $4 a gallon in as soon as six weeks. "T ...