gasoline prices

You think you've seen it all, but this weekend I went and visited my son, who lives in Chicago, and while we think the $5.19 per gallon prices are outrageous here, and they are, still it's worse less than a couple of hundred miles around the lake to the west.

I don't know why I take it so personally, other than, it is coming out of MY wallet. Monday's 45-cent gasoline price spike just struck me, not so much as shocking as it was brazen. It's like these SOBs are going to raise it another 45 cents...and all at once; not a dime here and a dime there?

I don't know why this is a shock, but gas prices spiking in Kalamazoo in the past week to well over $3 ($3.19 the first day of the spike) did just that to me.

Overnight - one Kalamazoo station dropped to $1.99 for regular

With a new energy policy the last three years that promotes domestic production, even full out military action by Iran against US bases in Iraq had no impact. And the prices we’re being charged continue to fall.