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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Last week, here in Nowheresville, the diesel dropped SIXTY CENTS in one day. 
When youngest and I went to town this morning, it had gone up twenty cents 
from yesterday.

There is no logic to what happens with gas prices!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> Speaking of oil and rape<g>
> I went to the doc this afternoon, an hour drive south.  On the way
> there, I noticed that I was low on gas.  I passed a Racetrak and gas was
> $3.41, and then a Chevron where gas was $3.45, the lowest gas has been
> in forever that I have seen.   I think I paid about $3.60 at last
> fill-up.  I don't like making left turns across traffic, so I decided to
> hit the station on the way home-I calculated that I had enough to make
> it back.  It was about 1:30 when I passed the station.
> So I go to the doc, then on to the lab.  They got me through quickly,
> but as I sat in the lab waiting room, I watched CNN report that oil
> would be going up based on the evacuations of the rigs out in the Gulf.
>  I thought, "it figures".
> On the way back, by now it is about 3:30, and as I pull into the
> Chevron, I noticed the sign and almost passed out.  It was back up to
> $3.59!!!!  That's fourteen cents in two hours based on a speculation
> that the hurricane will damage operations!!!
> That was down in Adairsville, GA, on old US Hwy 41...