Maybe You Can Explain It To Me…
posted by FinleyTwo weeks ago, I’m passing by the two Shell stations by my apartment and the price for a gallon of regular gas was $2.09. Today, I pass those stations and take a look at the price.
$2.29/gallon. A week ago, it was $2.19 a gallon.
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I admit, I don’t know everything. I also admit that I haven’t paid attention to all of the news of late. So please, can someone explain to me why the FUCK gas prices have jumped 20 cents in the past two weeks? Can someone clue me in, seriously? I’m stumped. Moreover, the last I recall despite all of the warnings about high gas prices being because of the cost of oil the oil companies posted world record profits recently.
Maybe I’m just naive. Or maybe- just maybe- we’re all getting the high hard one on this issue.
I swear to God, it’s shit like this that pisses me off more than anything. Twenty cents in two weeks, and I sure as hell haven’t seen anything to indicate a reason.
UPDATE: This article on the New York Times website (registration required) actually answers my question in part. Apparently, political fears with Iran and Nigeria might be partly to blame. I still say we’re getting screwed, though.
Out.
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March 8th, 2006 at 7:19 am
THIS is what pisses you off more than anything else? THIS?
One day we’re going to have to sit down and talk about child molesters, terrorists and hilary clinton.
I think your capacity for pissed off hasen’t even been tapped yet…
March 8th, 2006 at 11:14 am
Beerslinger, it may be possible that my pissed-off potential may yet be untapped. However, I see the mass screwing of the driving population of the USA as a pretty bad thing- hence, me being pissed in the first place.
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Try paying
April 4th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Ah but your economy is based more on trains and mass transit, where as in the states we are an economy built on cheap gas.