Am I crazy, or are gas prices skyrocketing since the GOP retook the house?

[CatWoman]

:shrug:

[louis-t]

1. I just thought it was because someone sneezed

in Nigeria.

[gateley]

2. Well, you ARE crazy, we all know that, but as to the other part of your question,

I'd have to agree that I've noticed the gas prices have taken a leap.

But I'm sure it's Obama's fault, damn him! :7

:hi:

[JuniperLea]

4. LOL!

Damn straight~! Harrumph!

:rofl:

[CatWoman]

5. lol!!!

:crazy:

[JuniperLea]

3. They've gone up at least 10 cents a gallon in the Los Angeles area...

Overnight.

[canoeist52]

6. Thanksgiving - the most traveled day of the year

Ramping the price up for the holidays This gift to us happens every year.

[the redcoat]

7. I think it's more of a last stand before...

people start buying the Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus Electric, and Chevy Volt.

[Obamanaut]

8. All sorts of holiday travel is just around the corner. It's an annual thing. nt

[redirish28]

9. $3.00 a gallon where I live. usually it is never that high.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

10. Here in the hills n' hollers of Almost Level, West Virginia $3/gal now n/t

[CountAllVotes]

11. it was $3.48 a gallon

not far from where I live day before yesterday. Before the election it was stuck at $3.29 for the longest time.

[Dr.Phool]

12. It's called quantitative easing, aka firing up the printing presses.

Oil is priced in dollars. Devalue the dollar, it takes more dollars to buy oil.

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. Once again, it's the tanking dollar. nt

[wiggs]

14. gop never paid a price for doubling or tripling cost of oil while electing all

oil and energy people into office in 2000. why couldn't dems point out how much these oil guys and their friends benefitted? How about just listing the names of all the oil and energy industry hacks who got into office or were appointed??

Now seems a good time to bring that back.

[sally cat]

15. It will probably get even worse when they take office in January.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Nope

[Sabriel]

17. It's gone up quite a bit in WI, but it's typical for this season

We switch over to a winter formulation. Or at least that's the BS I've always been told....

[Speck Tater]

18. Maybe because IEA announced peak oil has been passed.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/is-peak-oil-behind-us/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Peak oil is not just here — it’s behind us already.

That’s the conclusion of the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization that provides energy analysis to 28 industrialized nations. According to a projection in the agency’s latest annual report, released last week, production of conventional crude oil — the black liquid stuff that rigs pump out of the ground — probably topped out for good in 2006, at about 70 million barrels a day. Production from currently producing oil fields will drop sharply in coming decades, the report suggests.

more at link

[old mark]

19. Regular here was $2.65 most of the summer, is $2.89 as of 11-15, and will go up till

Thanksgiving is over...maybe stay higher all winter.

mark

[TorchTheWitch]

20. They've been going up since Labor Day

All summer here it was around $2.69 for the cheapest stuff. Labor Day weekend it went up ten cents. A week later, up another ten. Been going up steadily ever since so now that $2.69 is around $3.20 (last I checked a couple of weeks ago... might be even higher now).

[ProgressiveProfessor]

21. Always does that in CA during the fall

[taterguy]

22. Not as crazy as those freaks who ride bikes instead of paying for gas

Don't they know it's just not safe on the roads unless you're in a car.

[B Calm]

23. not only that, but the stock market hasn't done very good either!

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. All over the world, so I'm not sure the American election has much to do with it

eg:
Kenya

Pakistan: http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/high-inflation-and-petrol-prices-make-eid-celebrations-expensive-1.713263

India (jet fuel): http://www.rediff.com/business/report/jet-fuel-price-hiked/20101116.htm

Philippines: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/11/16/10/oil-companies-hike-pump-prices-anew

Increases in the UK too, though this is just for the official inflation figure up to the end of October: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/16/inflation-hits-3-point-2-per-cent