Originally posted by ODC:
Easy answer.
Summer's coming, and with summer comes increased driving. This leads to more gas being used so they up their price.
They're a business. Their job is to make money, they don't owe anybody [censored].
Actually it's not just the higher summer demand that drives prices up. Historically, energy prices always rise during the times of highest demand. Specific to gas prices, they also rise because the percentage of gasoline that must be refined using a more EPA friendly blend increases during periods of higher demand, which means more costly refining, which means higher seasonal prices.
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