The one part of this I find frustrating is that the gas in the tanks at the service stations today doesn't cost them more than it did two days ago. This is the excuse we always hear when the prices are expected to drop; that they have to clear inventory. Unfortunately for the consumer it doesn't work that way on the way up.
And in the same vein, because the price increase is clearly discretionary (like I say the current storage hasn't changed costs, and they don't all receive shipment at the exact same moment), I can't see how it's anything other than collusion. Maybe I am missing something, but when almost every major station boosts prices to the exact same tenth of a cent at the exact same time, there has to be some concerted effort taking place. It's not just supply and demand.
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