Five Dollar Gas By the Weekend ????

No, this isn't the scene from my local gas station today, but it wasn't far off. I'm not one to fill my tank up in fear of prices rising tomorrow, but I really staved off a bullet today. The little yellow light came on last night, so I decided to get some gas after work.. As I passed two stations in West Florence, I was stunned to see the prices , $3.91 and 3.93 for regular unleaded !! Yet, I go a mile away to the south side of town, and it's $3.53, and finally, at the Kangaroo station around the corner from my house, it's still $3.49 - and all 21 pumps are being used, and ten other cars are waiting.....

It's happening everywhere.... Matt called from Hilton head to see if it was going on here too. The lady at the station there told him, "Fill it up - it's gonna be $5.00 a gallon by tomorrow." Is she kidding? We'll find out this weekend....

In case you feel like you jeans are a bit tighter today, that's not it - you're being gouged..... I'm not sure who, you're being gouged by someone. Need proof? Look at oil prices.. Despite Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and now Ike, oil prices continue to slowly drop, down to close to $100 a barrel. Yet gas goes up 50 cents in a day? It looks like the middlemen in the processing of oil to gas are bending us all over the trash can again... I'd ask Moye to explain this, but we don't talk about our jobs here on the blog anymore, right??

Just when we thought this mess was all over, we get dragged back in... Maybe it will blow over when Ike makes landfall like 100 hurricanes just like him have before, and nothing happens..... Let's hope so..

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