GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
They pull the same crap here...prices go up before winter sets in because of "east coast heating oil shortages" and then turn around and say "excessive summer demand" and then every time something happens overseas, it's a price increase for barious reasons. Then there is the good old stand by: prices increase because of (insert weather phenomena here). It could be a hurricane in the gulf, a tornado in the midwest or the sudden sighting of the groundhog. Anything to bend people over and stick it to them.
Our fuel prices have climbed over $4.30 a gallon here, and the latest excuse is the trouble in the Crimea. WTF does the Crimea have to do with California, seriously! They don't use our gasoline exports and we don't use Russian oil/gasoline products.
And yet California pumps, produces and exports a huge percentage of gasoline and fuel oil, our gasoline here in town being shipped up from the refineries just several hours to the south.