Comments about ‘Utah gasoline prices increase 3 cents per gallon since July’

We need to get wise to being gouged by the oil companies who also apparently control our legislatures. We have the technology to change to clean, affordable electricity in this country, but it seems to me the country is dragging it's heals and I believe it's political influence by said oil companies. If we spent the hundreds of billions that we spend on war in the middle east here, we could develop the infrastructure.

And why you may ask are gas prices so high?

Because they can be!

The real question becomes where are these huge amounts of money going? Is the money flowing to the Arab oil producing states? Is the money going to Venezuela, or Russia or else where? Or is the money just flowing into the pockets of commodity traders in New York and Chicago? I would bet on this answer.

As usual the middle class suffers most. The poor can't afford cars so don't need gas. The rich don't care what it costs, because they have all the money in the world.

Just a continuing part of the shifting of wealth away from the middle class. Yet some can't see what is happening or just don't care, because they believe that someday they will be rich too. Guess again, bucko!

The Utah petroleum industry continues with impunity to gouge Utah conusmers. They cannot and will not justify the amount they charge other than to make obscene amounts of money. In the meantime, I continue to avoid their "convenience stores" like a plague; they account for more than 50% of the bandits' profits, and I refuse to contribute.

I spent last week in Pueblo, Colorado- an hour south of Colorado Springs and 3 hours south of Denver. Gas was $2.59 a gallon at the Load and Jug and $2.69 at the Chevron, Texaco, Shell stations. All the justification that I keep hearing about how it all "averages" out in Utah due to high summer, low winter prices is just that...justification and not worth listening to. Idaho is lower than Utah...and supposedly they get most of their gas from Utah! Somebody explain to me how that works!
But to DaleC. with the supposed ability to change to a cheap affordable electricity... how the heck do you think electricity in generated? It's not magically there.