Pump it up!
Three dollars a gallon - already!
The annual Gasoline Gouge season is upon us and, similar to the newly extended presidential primary season, it’s early. CNN reports average prices to be $2.87 a gallon. It’s always higher than average in Chicagoland. Here in the County of Cook - what with all the layers of taxation accrued - the cheapest gas is $2.89. Or is was yesterday. Last night the gasoline price gremlins went to work raising the bar by ten cents. The "Premium" grades are thirty cents more. (What makes them premium besides the premium price?)
I usually use the good stuff to keep my fifteen year-old engine as clean as possible. See: I’ve bought into (literally) the marketing flim-flam. As I squeeze the nozzle, I’m being squeezed for more money in return. Squeeze me some more, show me you love me.
CNN also mentions the eventuality of $4-per-gallon. Unprecedented profits derive from unprecedented prices. If that ain’t magic, I don’t know what is…
One wonders what they’re going to do with all that money - start a war? Oh. Yeah…
Shouldn’t they be buying their own soldiers?