At the moment, I'm not panicked. After all, the prices normally creep up for a couple of weeks before a major driving holiday. (Memorial Day weekend definitely fits the bill there.) Then it often jumps back down to just above pre-creep levels in order to make it seem like we're getting a bargain. The questions are whether it does drop and by how much?

Don't worry... Ford/GM and Honda? will buy back your new SUV or make payments up to $700/month if you loose your paycheck, so buy that gas guzzler! You'll be fine.
Oh, wait, what?

Well holy cow, if we wouldn`t have to be mowing the grass twice a week....
Thanks a lot for all that rain MotherNature

I'm more irritated by the fact that oil prices are going up for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Just because it can. There's no reality or reasoning behind the entire process...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6220339/

"In my mind, this is a market that is looking for an excuse to go higher," said Phil Flynn of Alaron Trading Corp.But with a weaker stock market and analysts expecting another build in inventories when the government releases its weekly report Wednesday, oil is being held in check, he said

"They're buying just to buy into the momentum," said analyst and trader Stephen Schork.

"No one is looking at the fundamentals."

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Translation: We're driving the prices up because we can.