Gas prices heading back up...

[Catshrink]

last week I paid $2.09, today it's $2.23 at the same station. I need to get these stickers printed:

[ixion]

1. they were down just long enough for the CMC to slip a meme in there

about how BushCo is 'handling' gas prices. :eyes:

[napi21]

2. Supposed to have something to do with Sharon's stroke.

Aparently anything that destabelizes the ME upsets the markets!

[Catshrink]

3. I'm sure if Condi broke a nail they'd say the same thing.

Any freaking excuse.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. San Jose, CA: Chevron Supreme went from $2.31 to $2.47 in one day...

...it's held at that price for about a week, but it was going down by several cents a day and then BLAM.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. One reason why: sale of U.S. emergency reserves and extra Europe

supplies stopped last week. Supplies are down.

Ten days ago I watched the corner gas station go from $2.29 to 2.49 in an hour.

I figure it'll go back to $3.59 again but incrementally and more slowly than last August.

[Maestro]

6. And none of this hurts the neocons.

They are making money hand over fist. ExxonMobil, Shell are all making record profits. We are the mercy of wild speculation in futures prices. It's disgusting. Hell * hasn't paid for gas in years.

[MadisonProgressive]

7. We were 2.15 about 2 weeks ago - now 2.39

[demgurl]

8. You all know what happened, right?

* was feeling pressure over how bad stores were doing for the holiday season. He put pressure on the gas companies to bring down the price temporarily and now that the holiday season is over the prices are going back up. Nothing is real with these guys - everything is staged.

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Yep, gassed up today for $2.27 and it was $2.19 before Christmas

according to my car log.

[Czolgosz]

10. Gas prices and Bush approval ratings (graphic by pollkatz)

[Coastie for Truth]

11. Hint - Read Here

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* The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century -- by James Howard Kunstler

* Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes

* Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy by Matthew R. Simmons

* Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

* Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum by Michael T. Klare

* Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein


* The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

* Crude Politics : How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism
by Paul Sperry

It's all about "Peak OiL" - we are running out of cheap, accessible, "sweet crude."
What's left is either of both of more expensive to drill, refine, ship, or steal and defend