Why should gas prices come down as long as the American public keeps paying the prices? If I sold widgets for $5 and raised my price to $7 and my customers kept buying just as many if not more at the higher price, should I lower my price back down to 5 bucks because I ought to be a good guy?
The public is moaning, bitching and screaming about how much a fill-up costs. Yet they keep on driving as much as they ever did, maybe even more with summer coming up. The oil/gas nabobs of this world just keep smiling and pocketing their profits without even giving a thought to lowering prices. Would you?
I've cut my driving down in half through careful planning. No more running to the stores every day. Now I plan my trips like I'm planning the Normandy invasion. My fuel cost is way down each month as a result.
It's difficult for those who have to drive to work every day.....however, planning and consolidating evening and weekend driving can cut costs more that one would think.
If folks stopped buying my widgets at $7, I'd drop the price back to $5 in a real hurry. Until those of us who have been used to hopping into the car for every little thing start using the little gray cells, don't expect fuel prices to drop. The high costs have little to do with anything else but demand......we have to look in our mirrors and just say "no".
Too many people have been spoiled for far too many decades (kids joy-riding, dad driving to the corner store for one pack of ciggies, etc.) and unless we slake our driving thirsts a little, we shouldn't complain too loudly about the price of a tank of gasoline. Discipline will lead to fewer fill-ups and less headaches.
Leni
More common sense. Congrats!!