I went into a local gas station and asked for a quick $2 sale of gas. (I did save 10 cents a gallon paying in cash!) Gas prices had gone up 40 cents in the last two weeks said the guy behind the counter. I dont know if he was the owner but I continued to ask him why they continue to go up. This was last weekend and he noticed looking outside and seeing all of the tourists coming to the Cape, going to Woods Hole and Marthas Vineyard. He said that they have plenty of money and they dont care if our gas prices go up 5 cents a day. He has just bought $40K worth of gas the other day and all of the local gas stations are marking up their prices.
I said do you read the papers? Our economy is in a recession, homes are in foreclosure, food prices are climbing and the Cape's major source of income is those tourists now showing up in our motels, hotels and restaurants to enjoy our local weather, beaches and shopping. If they stop coming we would be in a world of trouble! He said this is only the end of April and the long line of cars at the red light means that the cars were going to still come and that they were going to continue to pay whatever gas prices the local gas stations ask. He says that Marthas Vineyard is already at $4 a gallon so $3.53 is a bargain! I thought that this is out of control and this is just getting worse. We never got this bad last summer. I see people siphoning gas in the news stealing it from each other cars. People stealing catalyic converters right from under their parked cars? Is that in our future? Weve got plenty of greed but where is the sanity? when will our government step in to do something? Our economy is being held hostage by the Oil Companies and our president the Oil Tycoon soon to be replaced!
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