I found a loophole and will tell all of my friends now!

[Geek King]

I thought I should comment on this post here. I'm beginning to wonder if this is the reason gasoline prices are where they are. Never mind that oil is skyrocketing due to what the government claims are shortages. I think it's due to the people I mentioned in this post. They pump their gas, then find a way to get a free fill up, causing the rest of us to pay and compensate the oil companies for their losses.

Nope, just a simple combination of too few refinerys, too many special blends for summer, and speculators playing the markets. Easiest fix would be to settle on one special blend for summer, and build some more refinery infrastructure. The speculators would lose their pants at that point, as supply would go up.

That's been this week's lesson from Mr. Economy, back to your regularly scheduled thread.