[Always Right]

Here is a third data point from 2004 indicating rising gas prices that year around Memorial Day....

Memorial Day auto travel to rise 3.4%

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Here is a third data point from 2004 indicating rising gas prices that year around Memorial Day....

Another anecdote! Who'd have thunk it!

Here's where gasoline/petroleum prices are set:

http://bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/cfutures.html

With your keen observation that prices always increase before Memorial Day you could make a real killing, just like Hillary turned $1000 into $100,000 in ten months in the cattle futures market.

[BubbaBobTX]

Your observation that gas consumption was going up over memorial day is a good one. Only two solutions for lower prices 1. lower consumption or 2. more production