MAY 29, 2006
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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."