Have you noticed ??

[kentuck]

...the price of gasoline going up in the last couple of weeks? What happens if it goes up to 3.50 - 4.00 per gallon just before election? Who gets blamed?

Of course, the Big Oil companies would never do anything like that, would they? That would put a terrible squeeze on this fragile economy.

Anyway, it's only up to 2.95 per gallon in Colorado today. Perhaps it will go back down this week?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Lady from Lundburg Survey said it is a temporary hike because of Winter-blend switch

But yeah, here it jumped 16 cents in one day.

[w8liftinglady]

12. i was thinking-winter blend is not that big a deal here-we don't see it until Dec.

[Uben]

2. Paid $2.43/gal today......

......I think that was down a bit from what I paid last week.

[tech9413]

6. I'd drive ten miles to buy at that price

Right now the best I could do within 10 miles is $2.79.

[Uben]

11. Coincidentally.......

....I drove ten miles to get it! That's how far I live out of town! he he

You know, they should be switching gas formulas soon and gas should get 10-15 cents a gallon cheaper. I think we'll see prices down around the 2.19 to 2.29 this winter.

[LibDemAlways]

3. $3.95 at my local station in So. Cal, up from

$3.45 last week.

[tech9413]

4. Yes I have noticed

That's one reason I'm glad I only have to fill my 10 gal tank every few months. I won't blame the oil companies exclusively, I think most of the blame goes to the Wall St slime speculating on commodities futures. Of course there is that matter of oil companies having cheap-assed leases for drilling rights and just capping the wells until the price suits them.

[TBF]

7. It is not simply wall street slime -

all the big oil companies have their own trading floors (or are putting them in) as well.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Squirrel !!!!!!

[blondeatlast]

8. I get it!

:bounce:

[kentuck]

9. Good one!

:-)

[NewEngland4Obama]

10. Gas has dropped to 2.58 in my town in MA

[ThomWV]

13. It has gone up $0.28 a gallon here in the last 10 days.

I mentioned it to my wife last friday - it is astounding to me that nothing was being said about it. It was gas prices that broke the camel's back and began the current recession. I figured it was just the way the oil companies could help Republicans at the polls by making people's lives just a little bit more miserable, make voters a little more discontent.