From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:431be40a$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> I just came home from a week in London, to find out that the prices had
> hopped something like 15% here to a comfy (calculating...) 7.1 USD per US
> gallon! Holy expensive petroleum, Batman!

Yes, the current excuse is that the hurricane shut down many oil drilling
platforms in the Gulf of Mexico so a lot of production was lost.

The reality is that prices at the pump went up with the news instead of
with the next delivery.

Geo.

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