"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Uh huh. I see. O.k., now explain why it is that when the price of oil
skyrocketed up to about $50 a barrel I paid a measly $3.59 for a gallon of
gas, and recently, when the price of oil plummeted to a pitiful $100 per
barrel, I was raped to the tune of $2.83 for the gas.

Wolfgang
who just LOVES these little exercises in the intricacies of
real-ekonomiks!

Uh , maybe because you buy gasoline rather than crude oil. The price of
crude oil is only one of the (and rarely the major) factors affecting the
price you pay at the pump for gasoline.

Bob Weinberger