Yep, get the extra cxash as fast as possible. Blame it all on hurricanes even though Katrina did no damage to underwater pipelines and the refineries were back on line in very short order.
The responsibilities of the companies to not gouge us is pretty thin. The dealers on the street at local stations are losing huge as their margins to sell gas is so thin that privately owned stations are going out of business rapidly. Hmmmmm, seems to leave only the corporate owned ones standing. Nice way to eliminate competition.
WHilst I do not want the government setting prices I have no problem with unfair business practices being looked into. Something is wrong when the prices go up almost 75 cents over night then the announcements is made that supplies have been re-establised yet they fall only half that and take weeks to do it.
What I would love is an instructional expose by some one here learned in the whole economy from ground to gas tank so that I can know whether or not I am off base here.
Gasoline here (central Illinois) is at $2.66, that's down from a peak of $3.29