Back in December when a barrel of oil was around $40- we were paying around $1.30 a gallon for gas.
As this post is written- a barrel of oil stands at $34.95 yet a gallon of gas in Metro Kansas City has shot-up to around $1.83 per gallon- 50-cents MORE per gallon than when a barrel of oil cost $5 more.
Even in Wichita Monday- gas was 20-cents a gallon cheaper than Kansas City-MO- even with the added 7-cents Kansans pay on state gas taxes.
The oil companies have reduced refinery production to protect their obscene profits.
They are capitalist terrorists- much like the banks and brokarage houses that will put our grandchildrens' grandchildren in hock beyond their necks.
Like the banks and brokerage houses- oil companies should be nationalized. After all- it was the $4-plus per gallon fuel prices last summer that sparked our recession-depression.
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