Why do the leaves flutter in the trees when there is no breeze - a baffling analogy

[ThomWV]

I notice that the price of gasoline has gone up nearly $0.20 in the last week or two, quite a movement. I don't recall seeing fluxuations like that since Bush was President. One wonders how it is that virtually everything else in the economy is stagnant or declining but somehow the price of gas is driven up. Maybe the unemployed are taking more vacations and driving more as a result, maybe pigs have strapped engines to their asses and are scooting around in the dark of night - who knows?

[rucky]

1. They have profit goals to meet.

That's all.

[xchrom]

2. of all industries -- because they can?

kinda like health insurance?

[AlabamaLibrul]

3. Because they can.

If food prices were so volatile, people would be screaming from the rooftops about it.

On another note - To borrow (and probably butcher) a fellow DUer's phrase, I'm doing a bit of a nuclear option myself. Just sold my car. Don't need it when everything is within a few miles, and I'm sick of Big Oil.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Now THERE'S a question that needs to be asked out there on the "airwaves"...

[3waygeek]

5. Interesting...

because the price of diesel here in NE Atlanta has been rock-steady for several weeks. The Kroger by my house has had diesel at $2.739 for several weeks now. I have noticed gasoline prices creeping up a little, but since I drive a diesel, I don't have to worry about that -- diesel prices are much more stable.

[ThomWV]

6. Not here

I have a diesel truck too, here we're paying $3.09 (last week) for the stuff and the price is holding above the cost per gallon of high test - something that was never the case as little as 5~7 years ago when diesel prices were always just a few cents below regular gas prices.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "They flutter in clusters, because the roots connect them." - Scooter Libby (R)

Oooops, excuse me, I got confused by this topic. Scooter is here making some sort of occult reference not to leaves but to roots, using a nifty tree metaphor to signal his corrupt Republicon cronies about their treason and shit like that.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2007/01/31/aspens

Tree metaphors can just be so gosh darn confusing.

[guardian]

8. Maybe because

some oil execs needed a bigger yacht? I mean reaalllllly, you can't expect them to be seen in anything less than 175 feet. It's just embarrassing.

http://gizmodo.com/5519914/never-before-seen-look-inside-a-300-million-phillippe-starck-mega+yacht

[alfredo]

9. Speculators

[NNN0LHI]

10. Gas jumped up more than $0.20 per gallon about two weeks ago here

29 cents to be exact. Then about an hour after I filled up two days ago it went back down to where it was at before it jumped up. Probably by the time I need to fill up next time it will be higher again?

Don't get it?

But I can literally watch a huge weed about three feet tall turn its leaves from east to west following the sun as it crosses the sky every day on its own with no wind whatsoever. The leaves in those trees may be doing the same thing in unison and thats the rustling you are hearing?

Don