Gas ...

It had held steady in North Jersey at 1.979 for quite a few weeks. This morning I noticed that the place I purchased gas last night for 1.979 had changed it to 1.999. So, it had been raised $0.02.

 

Stayed the same.

 

It's gonna keep going up. Just caught a market report on the radio, said crude was up almost a dollar for the third straight day.

Maybe it's just the ebb and flow of the market, but it certainly seems somewhat suspicious that it rises a rather fair amount each day following the elections, yet a week or so back, it dropped on the day OPEC announced it was cutting production.

 

Was 2.07 here late last week, now it's up to 2.28-2.29. It's a good thing my mom put $14 in my car this weekend thinking my tank was nearly empty.

 

The gas price issue is one that really cut against the GOP in rural areas, even the South, where Dems have apparently held two contested seats in Ga. and gained a couple in NC, I believe. I was talking to my second cousin, as redneck-rebel as they come, and when we brought up gas prices and the fact they were going down a month ago, he goes, "Oh, and guess why. Election!" It was a no-win issue for the GOP.

And yeah, prices have gone up about five cents here.

 

Up 12 cents here this week.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

 

Eighteen replies and not one representative among our far right wing nuts. Even knuckledragging Lyman and Yawn have a hard time explaining this one away.

 

Went up 11 cents at the ARCO near my work on Wednesday. From $2.28 to $2.39. (Hey, that's low for us/SoCal)