I think the oil market has gone completely off the tracks. When I left for lunch I glanced at gas prices along the road in anticipation of filling my tank. I found the lowest one and figured I’d fill up on the way back from lunch (I was hungry right then). On the way back, not over 60 minutes later, prices had risen by two to eight cents!
Can they do that? Aren’t they supposed to wait until the middle of the night to spring that sort of change? What happens if you’re in the midst of filling your tank and the code comes down to change prices? Do they figure the price from when you start filling or when you stop filling? Or do they prorate the cost so you pay the original price for what’s already in your tank and the higher price for the remainder? Isn’t it time we start recycling teenagers’ oily faces to ease the energy crisis? How about jeri curl and ‘fro combs? Bonus points if you catch the reference.
By this time tomorrow I fully expect low-octane fuel to be over $2 a gallon. By next week we’ll be paying by the litre at the price of a pint per gallon. Don’t we have an entire army sitting on the oil wells? What the hell is the problem?