Is BP the Baddest Guy?

Gas prices around here continue to slide toward the $2.99.9 a gallon mark, read it as $3 a gallon. Again, $2.99.9 is really $3 and should not be called $2.99.

This is a welcome drop, after that 26 cent spike right after the Fourth of July, July 9th and 10th. It is STILL, however, a big rip-off intended to make Big Oil RICHER. Prices here in the northwest part of Chicagoland jumped the 26 cents in two days and it has now taken it 18 days to get back to the the $3.12 level. Let's see, two days to jump 26 cents, and 18 days to drop 18 cents. Could this be why Big Oil continues to post their mega-earnings?

I did see a station in Woodstock, Il, yesterday at $3.08 and a Mobil station in Johnsburg at $3. However, the British Petroleum station in Woodstock was still at $3.30, and the one in McHenry was even higher, at $3.40!!!!!!! Then, we have all the problems with the BP refinery in Whiting, In, which is dumping mercury into Lake Michigan, and I believe I heard it was a "scheduled" shutdown for repairs. Why would you do this during the vaunted excuse of SUMMER DRIVING SEASON?

BP even had the gall to use their GAINS to take out a whole page ad in the Tribune to explain their side. YEAH, RIGHT, as Ricky Ricardo would say to Lucy, "You've Got Some 'Splainin' to Do!"

We Deserve a Break Today! --RoadDog