Gas jumped up twenty cents over night.

[texas1928]

from 2.54 to 2.74. I feel the gas companies are taking advantage of the hurricane.

[Massacure]

1. natural gas is almost 12 bucks per million btu. It jumped $2

in the last 36 hours.

[magnetism]

2. Those greedy pigs!

Bastards!

:mad: :mad:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

4. ... and we're suprised, WHY???

[Liberal Veteran]

3. You can take out "I feel".

The gas companies ARE taking advantage of the hurricane.

It seems like they use any old excuse to hike the prices lately. I expect a headline tomorrow to say "Oil Futures Rise to Record Levels On 'Unexpected' Rising of the Sun".

They know damn well that their puppet in chief in the WH is not going to slam them, so why not gouge?

[texas1928]

5. I used the I feel, cause I did not want to start a flame war.

I never know what is going to set off the Lounge. But yeah they are taking advantage, plus there was a run on gas stations last night and long lines, there is a rumor racing through Lubbock that it could hit 3 bucks a gallon.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

6. The thing that astonishes me most...

... is not that plutocrats gouge, but, rather, that anyone expects them NOT to. After all, when a creature acts absolutely in accordance with its nature, we consider this behavior "normal". It is only when a creature acts in an anomolous fashion, that we consider that behavior "deviant". Why, then, do we expect otherwise when the creature happens to belong to the genus "h. Sap"?

It's a mystery to me.

[NewJeffCT]

7. then, when they lower the price to $2.70

the, media will trumpet how awesome they are for lowering the price in this time of need.