Regarding high gas prices.

As many of you have no doubt noticed, gas prices are soaring which is cutting into what little profit margins we drivers have. One of the things I like to do while sitting in parking lots declining trash insult offers is that I listen to YouTube videos on topics that interest me - which includes among other things- global shipping, conflicts, and geopolitics. I just thought you guys might be interested to learn that the gas stations are not jacking up the prices because the gas they already have costs them any more as a result of current events in the Strait of Hormuz. The gas you put in your vehicle today was produced, transported, refined, and purchased by the wholesalers and retailers well before anything happened to drive up their costs. This is just retailers taking advantage of your EXPECTATIONS that prices should go up based on what you are hearing in the news. It's just pure price gouging and taking advantage. It's just one more way the guy on the bottom of the totem pole gets screwed in 2026 America.

Not sure that information gives you any useful options but at least you know what's going on. There are tens of millions of barrels of oil in the system and in storage at all stages of the transportation and refining chain. The events in Iran have nothing to do with what you are currently paying at the pump.

For those who like to be cursed with knowledge of things you cannot change but which affect you nonetheless I reccomend " What's Up With Shipping " on YouTube.