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jm31828 · 05-10-2013, 04:29 PM

Ok, so I know we are entering the summer driving season where prices drift upwards over time, but what has happened this week? All of the stations around here jumped 30 cents in one day! Up from $3.79 to $4.09. That is an awfully large one day jump outside of a big disaster like a refinery explosion or something like that. Anybody know what the circumstances are this time?

GarageLogic · 05-10-2013, 04:41 PM

They don't even bother making excuses anymore.

What I do know, is that if George Bush was still President, the media would be raising holy hell about this.

Brian_M · 05-10-2013, 05:07 PM

Didn't happen here (GA)... not that it matters. If you want to use your vehicle, you'll put fuel in it. It's pretty simple to me, price just doesn't matter to me until it's over $100/fill (double to triple what it is now), then it'll be time to evaluate the budget again.

Sayantsi · 05-10-2013, 05:16 PM

It seems to me that the market learned that people don't really react until gas hits $5/gallon, so prices have settled under that point.

johnfrisco · 05-10-2013, 05:35 PM

Blame Hurricane Katrina.

After Katrina oil prices skyrocketed! And people didn't cut back on gas. So the oil companies then knew they can milk us for all they want because of hot dependent we are on oil.

Bush didn't help either.

camaro69 · 05-10-2013, 06:07 PM

I still believe it will be Bush's fault until April 4, 2063 when we have First Contact with the Vulcans.

ChargerMatt · 05-10-2013, 06:34 PM

I never understood people complaining about gas prices. You can't change it, so what's the point?

00molavi · 05-10-2013, 06:47 PM

It is the same story; it goes up, then it comes down. Get used to it

trlhiker · 05-10-2013, 07:03 PM

They are still the same here as the last 3 days.

jm31828 · 05-10-2013, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChargerMatt

I never understood people complaining about gas prices. You can't change it, so what's the point?

So if your water bill or your property taxes jumped 10% in one day for no apparent reason, you wouldn't complain or question it, because "you can't change it"?
I was not just posting this to complain, this was a very unusual one day spike when none of the typical catastrophic events that would cause this type of a jump has happened, some of us would like to know what the reasons are.