9/10/01 Normal Gas Prices $1.29
9/11/01 Terrorist Attacks $2.00
9/12/01 Gov't Steps in to stop price gouging at gas stations
(this will be the first and last time they help)
$1.49
01/01/05 Crazy Dictator in North Korea runs his mouth $2.00
01/10/05 Crazy Dictator in Venezula runs his mouth $2.09
01/12/05 Civil Unrest in Iraq $2.12
02/02/05 Civil Unrest in Venezula $2.18
02/14/05 General "Stock Market Concerns" $2.29
02/28/05 Concerns are forgotten $2.18
03/03/05 Finally, the Prices are going down... $2.09
04/01/05 Just fucking kidding! LOLZ! $2.29
05/12/05 Supply and Demand Issues $2.39
05/28/05 Memorial Day Weekend $2.49
06/14/05 Oil Companies celebrate record profits $2.34
07/01/05 It's a Holiday right? We can charge more, right? $2.39
07/09/05 Hurricane Dennis hits Cuba, Gulf of Mexico $2.39
07/10/05 Oil Companies on Golf Outings Forget to raise Gas Prices $2.39
08/25/05 Hurricane Katrina $3.09
08/26/05 Make up day for forgetting to raise prices for Dennis $3.29
08/27/05 Civil Unrest in the US. People serious consider taking the bus. $3.29
08/29/05 Everyone drives to work, but is really really bitter about it $3.09
09/01/05 Hybrid cars are the new way to save on gas...
of course, once you equate the fact it costs several thousand dollars
more to buy and maintain a hybrid (not to mention the $4,000 replacement battery at 50k)...
$3.04
09/04/05 Oil Exes go on an extended vacation with new profits $2.99
09/11/05 Nice day for Stock Market Concerns $3.09
09/20/05 Bush opens the oil reserve, saving Americans approx. $3 a week $2.79
10/10/05 Umm....Civil Unrest in Korea, Nigeria, and/or Venezula $2.89
10/20/05 Anti-Bush activists on MySpace plans a "Don't buy gas day". $2.79
10/22/05 Even the MySpace guy that made up the whole oil boycott buys gas. $2.81
11/04/05 Politicans "promise" to change the oil situation $2.75
11/05/05 Yeah, and they also "promised" an improved healthcare system $2.79
12/01/05 Wait, we can raise natural gas prices too!?
(high fives all around the board room)
$2.79
12/12/05 Natural Gas rises 200%, gas goes down 7%. $2.68
12/13/05 Raises for oil execs, government kickbacks $2.72
12/24/05 Thousands of oil workers are fired on Xmas Eve
(is there any other way?)
$2.65
01/14/06 Natural Gas prices at a record high $2.67
02/01/06 Uh-oh, an unusually warm month...can't make money on natural gas
if no one is using their heat...
$2.78
02/16/06 Stock Market Concerns $2.89
03/12/06 EPA lifts many pollution restrictions to curb oil prices. $2.59
03/13/06 After the Oil Companies are done fucking the EPA and the public,
promises to call, the bastard never does.
$2.63
03/15/06 King of Saudi Arabia dies, somehow oil prices go up $2.78
04/05/06 Crazy Dictator in Iran runs his mouth $2.89
04/12/06 Oil Companies defend record profits by lowering prices $2.64
04/13/06 Civil unrest somewhere. $2.79
05/11/06 The World Rejoyces at the birth of Bradgalina $2.57
05/28/06 Hurricane Season Starts, sparking "general concerns" $2.69
06/06/06 Satan's child born,
global warming making Earth's climate "tolerable" for devils
$2.75
06/15/06 Oil Execs tell Satan they were here first.
Cast Satan back to hell
$2.69
06/27/06 We're just making stuff up now. Throw buzzwords
together by throwing darts into a corkboard.
"Global concerns"
$2.71
06/29/06 "Global unrest" $2.73
06/30/06 "Civil Concerns and Global Unrest" $2.74
07/01/06 No reason, we're just bastards. Bend over. $2.79
07/05/06 Fireworks scared our cats? $2.99
07/06/06 Crazy Dictator in North Korea runs his mouth. $3.05

 

And really, what are you going to do about it? Walk? Make your own oil? Well, good luck.

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