Questionable Reasons for Gasoline Price Hikes

Every year at this time we consumers experience a run-up in the price of gasoline.

We hear such terms or cliches as refinery outages, glitches, social unrest in other oil-producing countries, low crude oil inventory, unseasonably cold weather, higher cost of additives to reformulate gas and now a rebounding economy and the high cost of crude oil.

When do we say enough is enough?

Nick Slevkoff

Downey

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Sick and tired of high gasoline prices?

There are three things you can do about them:

1. Conserve.

2. Conserve.

3. Conserve.

When gasoline starts to back up in the oil companies’ pipes at their refineries, prices will come down.

It is a matter of supply and demand. You demand, they supply -- at their price.

Frank H. Simpson

Westlake Village