Gasoline Prices Again

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Gasoline Prices--The Great "WHY?"

I am still wondering WHY the gasoline prices, which were climbing ever higher a month ago and which over the summer months had reached over four dollars a gallon around here (Redding, California) have SUDDENLY crashed!

No one I have read about or talked to has any reasonable idea about WHY this bizarre turnaround happened.

Now that the prices are lower again--no one seems to want to remember or even CARE about the prices of last summer!

Too many of the businesses in this area raised their own prices--not by pennies, but by 25 or 30 per cent--with the excuse that the "energy prices" which they had to pay--forced them to raise their own prices to stay in business. Well, the gasoline prices are lower again--but none of the businesses that raised THEIR prices (in self defense) have lowered them--instead they are just counting their nice profit!

This kind of greed is probably going to cause us more and more trouble until we learn not to be so much so.

Tomasito, 2008


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