Again, It is Wall Street & The Banks causing the hike in gas prices:

[EV_Ares]

GASOLINE PRICES DRIVEN HIGHER
And you can expect to pay even more for fuel in 2011, industry experts are saying.
By DIANE STAFFORD The Kansas City Star
Happy new year! And welcome to $3-a-gallon gasoline.
The national average price at the pump for regular was $3.07 Thursday, according to AAA, and a spot check of Kansas City area stations found prices ranging from $2.78 to $3.07 a gallon.
The national average was up 7 cents a gallon from a week ago and 44 cents higher than a year ago at this time, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Industry analysts say to prepare for $3.10, even $3.30 a gallon, in 2011.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/30/2551739/gasoline-prices-drive-into-3-range.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Already $3.20 per for regular last week in NW PA. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

2. You mean the DEMs didn't close this loop hole

you know RATpubliCONs sure as shit ain't going to do a Damm thing about it

[Name removed]

3. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Teaser]

4. perhaps, but driving force is resource competition

oil is just not getting more plentiful anymore.

[HereSince1628]

5. Meanwhile Ohio and Wisconsin republicans go against high-speed rail

in Wisconsin even adding highway construction interests to cabinet secretary levels.

[Kolesar]

7. Ohio's new chair of dept of transportation was the lobbiest for the asphalt industry...eom

[HereSince1628]

8. So then both states have appointed highway interests to their cabinets

I didn't know about Ohio. I guess I am not surprised. A state's leadership is never more visionary than its business interests.

[A wise Man]

6. Getting ripped off the gas pumps again

is more important than "DADT' issues. We are really going to get screwed again as the dems. sit quietly again in their small corner of fear from the rethugs.

[salinen]

12. Exactly

horrible trade.

[appal_jack]

16. & Dem's let them control the narrative

At the end of a long drive home yesterday, I stopped in at the local Army Surplus store to clear my head and stretch my legs before the final 45 minute trip home. I know the proprietor pretty well, and like trading with him even though he & I have diametrically opposed political views. The conversation across the counter moved toward the run-up in gas prices and of course I noted that the speculators and hedge fund managers who caused the previous problems were at it again. His response? It's alternative energy's fault! "They" (he never said who they were) want oil to be high so that solar and wind can compete.

It baffles me that some one can believe that when the levers of power are clearly in the hands of Wall St.

I'm glad to have an acquaintance or two like him, so that I can hear the impact of Faux News and Limp-balls without actually having to tune in.

-app

[EV_Ares]

24. You know he probably got that on his faux news or limpballs. That is what they do

& your post shows it works with some of their listeners.

[Imagevision]

23. New world order back in high gear again... 2bdarn sure!

[lonestarnot]

9. Control energy, control slaves, control the planet.

[WinkyDink]

10. Gasoline isn't the real problem; the price of heating fuel is.

[rhett o rick]

11. Move your money to local Credit Unions. nm

[rucky]

17. Can we move the Federal Reserve to one, too?

[rhett o rick]

18. Time to dump the Fed. and break up the banks. nm

[kentuck]

13. Just like the last time.

Traders working for Goldman Sachs.

[theophilus]

14. It was $1.39 in our area two years ago. Frakkers. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

15. Commodity speculation was outlawed in 1936.

In the 1990's it was quietly decriminalized for a handful of well connected wall street gangsters, including of course our friends at Goldman Sachs.

[DCKit]

19. But we're "at war".

Isn't profiteering a hanging offense?

[lfairban]

20. Gasoline will mover higher.

Expect the price to rise about 7% per year, which means it will double every 10 years.

Get used to it.

[roamer65]

21. Who owns the Fed?

It is a consortium of the American private banking industry. When Fed policy causes inflation, it is the private banks causing the inflation.

[Imagevision]

22. M$M, thank you for the heads up on future $5.00 per gallon prices, so thoughtful

of all of you to prep us "small" people as the spokeman for BP referred to us as.