the rationalle they are using for raising our gas prices so high in the blink of an eye is that if they dont make them as high as the US prices then we would lose all of our gas to american companies driving up to buy it all at our low prices. They are trying to sell to us the idea that they are doing it for our own benefit with the consumers best interest at heart. Meanwhile the refineries are making up to 3x the profits since this disaster. Im sorry but I just dont understand how making gas too expensive for many people to even buy it to drive to school and work is helping the little guy.So when we do 'run out' of fuel and they are all sitting on a huge pile of money wankin off where will their noble efforts be then? Certainly not shuttling folks to their jobs, not delivering milk and bread, not driving school busses. Nope it will be time to go shopping, and of course start laying people off.
The trickle effect reaches everyone but the ones at the top doing the pissing stay nice and dry.

I have several friends who depend upon gasoline every day for their work to run various machinery. They are locked into contracts and cannot pass their new overhead onto their clients, they have to eat the price increase themselves and thats hard to do for the little guy who will be working harder for less pay. With the prices jumping 50% or more they feel it immediately.