Gasoline prices are jumping up again. Every time I drive past our local station the price has gone up ten to twenty cents. I guess the solution is to not drive by there anymore, but I will have to buy gas sooner or later.
Oil prices go up and down, but gasoline prices can go up when oil is down or go down when oil prices are up. I know someone somewhere at sometime has explained to me the fluctuation of gas prices but I promptly forgot. All I know is that when gas cost $3.50 ($3.49.9) it is not a good thing. And, I really don’t care what it cost in Europe.
During my weekly shopping trip to Wally-Mart last week I overheard two cashiers talking. They said that their gas would be over $4.00 per gallon before summer. Now that’s something to look forward to.
Back in the ‘old’ days, when gas was $2.00 per gallon and it went to over $3.00, it was a shock. Then it went to nearly $4.00. Strangely enough when it settled around $3.00 everyone thought it was wonderful. See how easy that was to jump up a dollar?
I am not suggesting there is some wild conspiracy to inflate gas prices, but it is strange how prices go up a lot faster than they come down. And, not long ago the ‘news’ was reporting we have a surplus of gasoline and are shipping it to other countries.
Being a grumpy old man I am sensitive to prices increases on anything, but especially gasoline and electricity. Both of those drive up prices in other sectors like food and other essentials.
Being selfish and self serving, my plan is to get my little burg to declare itself a foreign country so we can get cheap gasoline.
Even better, we could declare war on the U.S. and get free gasoline and some badly need road repairs.
PMO
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