Hint: Americans drive their cars more in the summer, which makes it the best time for the people selling it to raise the price for maximum profit.
This has happened every spring since I can remember.
What's different about this year? The Saudis are gouging their friends, the U.S. oil companies (probably with undisclosed tax-free kickbacks), who in turn do it to us - with an additional profit tacked on.
Every year this is treated by the news media as something mysterious; a half-hearted investigation is done by the friends of the oil companies, and the result is always that there was no wrongdoing or price fixing. Right.
And every year we believe it, pay outrageous (to Americans) gas prices while we take our vacations, and in the fall, the prices mysteriously fall back to only slightly higher than last year.
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If you want to avoid 95% of internet spelling errors:
"If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too."
It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.
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