Was just reading that gas station attendants are starting to take the heat for rising prices.
Yahoo News - Gas Station Workers Face Angry Customers
But the reasoning didn't make sense to me. I felt they missed an important element. The political climate.
I wouldn't direct my anger at a gas station attendant. I put the blame directly on the current administration and their failure to take steps to curb the oil companies.
To me, the anger of consumers is more likely due to seeing record profits posted by Texaco, Shell and other oil companies during the past couple of years. I, and many, remember the false claims put forth regarding the California Energy Crisis of 2000-2001. We hear about refinery problems all the time and how different states require different formulas and the companies insist THAT is why prices go up. Well, that's nothing new, so why has it continued to increase the price of gas?
Finally, when it is PUBLISHED and reported on NPR that oil companies have a feeling the tipping point is $3.00 per gallon so that's where they are going to take it, I would imagine THAT would be a pretty big reason for consumers being PO'd.
Are you bothered by gas prices? If so, why? Do your reasons aline with those stated in the article, or the ones I proposed?