Did you notice how the price of gas jumped up between Wednesday and Thursday of last week? Wednesday night I took a glimpse as I drove past my local station and was excited to see the sign reading $2.48 a gallon. Like a gazillion others across the country I was planning a trip over Labor Day weekend and I was going to need to fill up a couple of times. Never the less instead of stopping right then and there to fill up I just kept on moving promising myself I’d stop Friday night on my way out of town…the price Friday night? $2.58. It jumped .10 in less than 48 hours!!! Then by Labor Day it did it again with gas going to $2.69. How could this happen? Nothing major happened in those two days to increase the price of gas.
I keep up with the headlines. No major earthquake hit South America. Sure there’s a hurricane or two swirling around out there, but no where near an oil field. I did a scan of the news and not once did I find where a terrorist had threated to kill some important dignitary…and how come that affects the price of gas? I know our system is set up to where things like price gouging and taking advantage of something such as one of the busiest traveling holidays of the year by rising the price of gas shouldn’t happen right? I mean .10 in two days may not seem like much, but of all times to edge back up how come it just happens to be when half the country is on the road going to visit the other half? I can’t prove this but you have to know the gas station owner’s handbook is like two pages long with the phrase “Always raise prices before a holiday” printed in giant bold letters on one page and “We only lower prices in the middle of the week when people only drive to work and back” on the other. You just wait and watch the price of gas during the weeks leading to Halloween. They will start to dip a penny or two maybe a nickel, bump up a couple of cents just so we believe it’s part of the economy, it may even fall down as low as $2.25, and then just as million of parents get ready to load up the minivans with candy crazed rugrats all dressed like Captain Jack Sparrow… WHAMO!!! the price of gas will shoot up to $2.98. No reason will be given, but we all know why…everybody loves a good holiday even Big Oil.
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