Price of Gas Jumped

[pennypinch]

Anyone else notice the big jump in gas prices yesterday? I sure did. Two days ago gas cost $2.46 per gallon at my local gas station. Yesterday morning it had jumped up to $2.69! Thats a $.23 jump! Why does this keep happening and how high will it go?

I heard that the biggest cause for this price jump is the amount of people consuming gas right now. Americans consume about 178 million gallons of gas per day! Per Day!!! That is a lot of gas!

Can you imagine if we ran completely out of gas? The whole country would completely be put on it's heels. What a catastrophy that would be!

I really do hate to see it rising again and hope that this is all the higher it will go. I can't afford it as it is.

The cost of gas and everything else goes up and up but the paychecks stay the same!

[ClassyLady]

You know it is going to jump during the holidays when everyone wants to go home. I think they do that on purpose. They know you have to have it, and use it to thier advantage.