robsouth wrote:
Because they can. Plain and simple. It is not like some things that folk would stop buying if the price got high. People will buy fuel at "whatever" price. Could you do without?
Can do with less. and have had to, and still have to with cost the energy policies have forced on us. We don't drive nearly as much as we did before. It's one of the reasons the roads are falling apart. Gas tax revenues are falling because people don't use as much gas, and they can't pay to keep up the roads. It's happening in NC anyway.