Well, as Jim Gullo notes above... you should be in Arizona, Bob. The price of automotive gas went up 3 times on Sunday alone at the station near me - from $1.75 to $1.95. By the end of the day, they were out of gas.

The story is a pipeline from Texas to AZ went down last week and, while it has been repaired, they are awaiting inspection of the repairs (or so the story goes.)

Lines are wrapped around the block at stations that have gas, others are closed down.

Prices generally are $1.95 for regular, but some gougers are charging $3.99 a gallon. They will be needing police protection, IMHO.

It always amazing how the value of that 10,000 gallons in the ground goes up so fast, but never goes down while it's still in THEIR tank.

I had to go out to get gas late last night and waited in line about 10 minutes. All 15 pumps at this station were running at the same time and for me, it was pumping about a gallon a minute -- pretty darn slow. It took 12 minutes to put 12 gallons in the tank.