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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryan Schaecher" data-source="post: 543065" data-attributes="member: 56872">Supply and demand yes, economic wise, nope. This is tyrannical greedy gas station owners looking to make a few hundred thousand quick bucks. The gas didn't cost them any more in a one-hour period but htey raised the prices by $2-3. That's greed.This spike in prices in general may be atributed to supply and demand, but not entirely. The only supply and demand that comes into play is the fact that gasoline is a "necessity" and thus is always in demand. If everyone calmed down and really thought this through, prices would remain stable. But instead everyone gets whipped into a feeding frenzy by over-hyped news reports and rushes out to top off the SUV, hybrid or whatever they are driving. I refuse to play the game. I filled up luckily on Monday before all this price stuff hit. I paid $2.499. I will not "top off" or anything until I need to. The gas will be there.</blockquote>