Gregg Laskoski Quotations

We strongly advise everyone to make sure they have a well-charged cell phone when they evacuate. But you should make sure that all the regular maintenance, all the stuff you tend to put off, is taken care of. You don't want to be calling for emergency road service during an evacuation because of a tire.

You don't know with 100 percent certainty that you'll be coming back to the home you left. So you should take essential papers, insurance policies, both home and auto, and any other irreplaceable items, including family photos. Keep them in an appropriate watertight container.

We were as wrong as you could get.

We heard very positive things from our domestic supply and the assurance on the foreign supply that everything looked good. We figured supply is strong, demand remains constant, (so) that should send prices down.

One of the ministers from Kuwait said that just the specter of negative news out of the Middle East adds about $9 to a barrel of crude oil.

Refinery levels are not up to where they were before Katrina. We'll probably see prices edge higher in the next few weeks before they start going down.

It doesn't really bode well to see gas prices at $2.65, $2.66 and higher before we even get to Memorial Day.

It does seem to be much more reactionary and that may be because so much is at stake. We are looking at crude oil at $68 a barrel when for years it never went above $30 a barrel.

When it comes to leisure travel, we're expecting a strong travel season, but you people are not going to postpone their vacation because gas is a little bit higher.

You always hear criticism that when wholesale prices come down there always seems to be a delay when the retailer follows suit.

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

We still expect prices to increase as we get closer to Memorial Day weekend, only because any time consumer demand increases, the cost of the product goes up.

We recognize we could be dead wrong. But when we look at the fundamentals of supply and demand, we see an awful lot that points to the supply side.

We don't know if the decline is going to be a gradual decline or a sharp decline.

We had stated that we expected prices to come down ... just two weeks ago.

Unfortunately, because we saw it hit that milestone last year, it would be naive for us to think that can't happen again. But we don't want to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We firmly support the free-market philosophy and we don't believe the government should interfere in free markets.

What goes up should come down, but we can't forecast when.

Tennessee typically parallels the national average or stays just a few cents below it.

This is not uncharted territory. As much as we dislike it, we are not as alarmed. You are not going to find anybody who will tell you they are going to cancel their travel plans.

For consumers, I know it's infuriating to watch these (prices) go up.

The federal government is basically saying that the price of gas could go up slightly through Labor Day weekend. It could be another couple of cents between now and next weekend. Maybe as much as four or five cents.

You will save an average of 35 percent on generic medication and 15 percent on name brand medication. ...This way it reduces their out-of-pocket expense.

All of those things, we believe, bode very well.