Gas prices in Kansas City Roar upwards 16 cents overnight

[n2doc]

Video below. Still no information on the offical "cause"

http://sb1.thefifthnetwork.com/VCMS/Player.aspx?id=67051ef1-8609-4194-a38a-732f97a5e041&PlayerTemplateId=95a123a6-2be0-4450-97bf-07abbf425f4d&videoGUID=CDF83389-4901-44EE-A890-7EC9847963FF&channelId=ID0EFF

Oh, the irony of having a Chevy truck commercial first on this story...

[Warpy]

1. Right, they never mention the simultaneous closure

of several refineries for unspecified maintenance at the busiest time of the year, do they?

Ah, memories! Remember how many power plants shut down in California in 2001? Remember what that did to utility bills?

Enron lives. Their upper middle management just went to the oil giants.

(Of course, this is a great teaching moment for the libertarians in your lives. This is how monopolies and near monopolies always behave. Anyone who wants a totally unregulated marketplace had better pay attention. They'd also better be rich.)

[donco6]

2. Kinda gives a new meaning to "gas war".

Except the prices are supposed to go down, instead of battling for highest position.