Judah wrote:

But supply is controlled by OPEC, not by free market forces, so your
observations are skewed. OPEC magically cuts supply at Holiday periods to
maximize profit taking. It happens now every holiday like clockwork. Google
"holiday gas price increase" and read articles from NYTimes and Wash Post,
and plenty of other sources that describe this phenomenon going back to 2004,
and that's just when it became so blatant that we figured it out...


Well then isn't about time we start to replace more of these Opec-
controlled imported oil with more our own domestic production?

Oh that's right, we can't so that, that's Baaaaad! So let's just
keep whining about it.

Or perhaps if we all just pay a "carbon tax" maybe the problem will
just go away.