LTTE in my local paper i totally agree with, for once.

[prole_for_peace]

"I don't understand the price-rising criteria for gasoline. If the station has already purchased the gasoline to sell at a set rate, why does the increase affect the gasoline already in the station's tanks? To me the increase should be on the gasoline that is ordered, not what is already there.

It's kind of like buying bread: on the shelf it's one price, by the time you get it to the checkout counter, there's an increase because of the instability of the flour market?"

replace "gas station" with "refinery" and "gas" with "oil" and this is my main gripe. so what if the price went up today, they bought that crap last week and should base their price on that.

i hate them all

[Greyhound]

1. I call it gouging in the margins, and it has become common practice

in most businesses.Of course, it's particularly egregious in the oil/energy industry.

[Justyce]

2. And if "oil" prices are the problem,

due to the supply of oil, why haven't *oil* prices increased as well as gas prices -- motor oil is still the same price as before... What am I missing here??