Originally Posted by
sac-a-lait
OK so then how is it that different companies with different supplies (because the DEMAND WILL ALWAYS BE THERE) charge the same...That's called price fixing. I would normally agree that supply demand drives prices BUT in the situation of GAS, we all know the DEMAND IS SOMETHING THAT EVERY AMERICAN HAS TO HAVE. In all other situations, when something is supplied to ALL OF AMERICA, the feds regulate them closer than this crap.
So we know demand is HIGH and CONSTANT for gas. We all know that. We know supplies are CONSTANT too. So why the spike? All that big oil is done is hurt the economy. They say for ever .01 cent increase in the price of gas it takes like a billion dollars or something out of the economy. Not hard to figure out it's gone up $2 so just IMAGINE how that has to have an effect. If that' s the case....REGULATE THE LOWEST GRADE to $1 a gallon.