Pump Jumping [metaquoting myself]

[digitaldiscipline]

The hypersensitivity of pump prices to raw material cost fluctuation is out of all scale with reality because of the high visibility and attention given to it. You don't hear the same attention being paid, day in and day out, to milk prices, or electricity, or anything else... just oil.

I wonder how much we pay for oil's "fame"?

[something I said in a discussion going on in razorwolfe's journal]