MAY 29, 2006 --

The price of gas dropped a bit in Torrington last week, with regular at $3.02.9 at most Torrington gas station, May 24.

Two days earlier, LPR spotted a 1947 Cadillac in Torrington. A Google search indicated that this car cost about $2,200 in 1947 -- and gas was about 15 cents a gallon then.

LPR was in New Jersey May 26, and regular, near the George Washington Bridge, ranged from $2.83.9 to $2.89.9.

LPR asks its clicksters-- don't fall for "gasoline aggrandizement syndrome" (GAS) -- in a way, not unlike Stockholm Syndrome. DON'T regard $2.83.9 as a low
price, these days.

That just could be what the pump price manipulators want us to do -- by spiking the price way up and then dropping it to the high level they were aiming for, telling us, meanwhile, that prices are considerably lower. Uh-uh.

As face-saving device for the oil industry, perhaps gas stations could give motorists de facto rebates by way of lottery scratch cards. The cards might be named "Windfalls."