WHAT IN THE FUCK HAPPENED TO GAS PRICES Options

[Mommy]

In Port Wentworth, GA, here is a 3 day time line of gas prices:

2 days ago: $3.83
Yesterday: $3.69 (went DOWN)
This morning: $3.79
This afternoon: $3.97
Now: $4.39

Oh and it's not like it's just like that at the gas station by our house. We went to the island and to Savannah this evening. We filled up in Savannah. The pump read $4.39, and it pumped at $4.49/gal. It cost us $68.01 to fill up a CAR. Jesus fucking Christ. Seriously, anyone who votes for Obama can kiss our economy goodbye.

[Hartmann]

What was going on in the Southeast the last few weeks was directly related to Ike. Atlanta and 52 other counties require a special type of fuel with a regulated amount of sulfur. The plants that supply that fuel are in southeast Texas. They were down for at least a week and when they came back up they focused on supplying fuel to the immediate area, plus, one of the sulfur recovery units was knocked out by the storm.

This lead to an extreme shortage of fuel in the Southeast with lines of cars waiting for gas.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/sto..._explainer.html

So it wasn't gouging per se, instead it was extreme lack of supply.

With the market the way it is, I can see prices continuing down to around $70/barrel.

[Mommy]

What was going on in the Southeast the last few weeks was directly related to Ike. Atlanta and 52 other counties require a special type of fuel with a regulated amount of sulfur. The plants that supply that fuel are in southeast Texas. They were down for at least a week and when they came back up they focused on supplying fuel to the immediate area, plus, one of the sulfur recovery units was knocked out by the storm.

This lead to an extreme shortage of fuel in the Southeast with lines of cars waiting for gas.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/sto..._explainer.html

So it wasn't gouging per se, instead it was extreme lack of supply.

With the market the way it is, I can see prices continuing down to around $70/barrel.

Wow... that is the first I have ever heard of that. Thanks, Stephan. Sheesh, the media really is useless. I don't think I heard a single story about that. All I kept hearing around here was "price gouging"