Where Do They Get That Info?

Where do they get these guys who forecast gas prices?

The latest, Guy Caruso, head of the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration, says gas prices should peak at $4.15 a gallon in August.

What planet is he from?

I paid $4.50 Wednesday morning.

He should visit California once in a while.

Caruso is singing that gasoline will average $3.92 through 2009. Post that price at any local gas station, and I’ll be there in a minute. People think that MINI Cooper I drive is economical. Wrong.

Oh, I know California’s clean-air rules make gas cost a little more here, and they are always yakking about refineries being down for maintenance just when the demand is greatest, putting another hit at the pump.

Some gurus read tea leaves or the entrails of a sacrificial animal. Do these energy guys read the oil stains on their drive? If they want entrails, mine feel like they’ve been ripped out every time I stop for gas.

Caruso’s aria on a barrel of oil is a $126 average next year and projects it’ll be $107 a barrel in 2015. Hum a few bars and I’ll fake it.

And let’s get rid of that silly nine-tenths of a cent. Gas is so high now they ought to round it off to the nearest nickel.

Those guys at The Associated Press helped me with this dirge.

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