Gasoline prices up 20 cents in 7 days and people are still driving like

[cantstandbush]

mad. I could not believe what I saw on the highways coming from a doctor's appointment in Baltimore. Prices are at an all time high (and so are oil company profits) and there seems to be more people on the roads than ever before and they are mostly sitting in huge traffic jams burning more and more gasoline and going nowhere. I just couldn't believe my eyes.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. they figure to get their driving in before the explosion in oil prices.

3.50-5.00 a gallon. Which is only one invasion away.

[Tsiyu]

2. It's also Spring Break

at many Universities. Seems they raised the prices just in time for all that Spring Break Trip driving. Gas Prices Gone Wild!!!! :)

[acmejack]

3. It's an annual rite of spring

and every other holiday. The prices always rise in expectation of increased travel, but that isn't gouging that is market forces at work. If they were little Mom & Pop businesses it would be a criminal deed you could bet.

[Tsiyu]

5. Exactly

The Big Oil mofos are gonna milk every cent they can from this nation before we go belly up.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I read your title and was expecting to see "there is no tomorrow"

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to finish the sentence.

Which is what many people may be feeling right now down there . .

Because the way Bush as the PNACers' fall guy is doing things, there will NOT be too many more tomorrows for the USA

They have begun the beginning of the end of the USA as a respected World Power.

But they'll never realize it until it is to late

That's the way Empires go doncha know??

In all recorded History

All Empires FAIL

And the World doesn't even like the USA

so they are fu*ked I'd say

But that's just my Silly Canuk Opinion

[kurth]

6. Most people have to work for a living

And most people have to drive to work.

[cantstandbush]

8. So most people are driving to work around 10:30 am? Hmmm. n/t

[teryang]

7. Daily litany in financial media - "oil glut, prices dropping..."

"...sell your oil stocks, dependency on foreign oil over, inflation down..."

[devinsgram]

9. A few years ago

I watched a local newscast where they were interviewing people at a local gas station about the rise in prices. I thought the people would be enraged. I was wrong. Their response was, that they had to pay it because there was nothing they could do about, so why get upset. In otherwards they resigned themselves to it.

Now the oil companies know this, and so they figure, why not stick it to them. If no is going to complain, just keep doing it. And of course the oil companies are dictating to Washington what to do and they are eternally gratefull to those in power, this one can see by their donations to help them stay there.

Now, if those people would get a clue and realize there is something they could do by changing those in power in Washington they would not have to resign themselves to paying higher prices.

So why then don't they?

[converted_democrat]

10. We went out to dinner for my b-day last night.. On the way there gas was

2.45 a gallon, on the way home it was 2.60 a gallon..