Gas Prices Options

[sin]

aha! here's one we can all bitch and complain about - the price of gas. as i was driving home from work tonight i looked at all the gas stations on the way. mind you, work is on side of town and my house is on the other - and the bulk of the gas stations are all on the same street. the cheapest of the cheap gas (regular unleaded) is $3.04/gallon. i find this utterly ridiculous. exactly one month ago, gas was $2.64/gallon. what the fuck has happened in the last month that would cause it to go up 40 cents, that's what i'd like to know. and don't give me any bullshit about OPEC. of course, they should be on anyone's shit list, but one can rest assured that they are not the sole source of our gasoline woes. there can be no decent explanation other than 'some people' are money grubbing bastards who don't have to worry about how much they're hurting the rest of the country, because they either have more than enough money to pay the price - or someone else is footing the bill (taxpayers). perhaps if we weren't financing a war for someone else's oil, we could be more concerned with our own. not only do we have plenty of oil reserves, we also have plenty of refineries. except for the fact that many of those refineries are too busy providing jet fuel for a war we didn't necessarily want to be in in the first place.

so anyway, how much is gas where you live?

[sin]

ok, what kind of bullshit is this? Gas prices hit a new record at the pump.

The average national price of a gallon of gas hit $3.073 on Monday, up almost a penny from Sunday's also record-setting price, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Gasoline is now well above the previous record of $3.057, set on Sept. 5, 2005, soon after Hurricane Katrina.

where the hell do these people live? i sure wish i only had to pay $3.05 a gallon... (note previous post where i said that gas prices are up to $3.29 a gallon here - and thats for the 'cheap' unleaded.)