Speak Out: Gas prices and college football

I wonder if many other people are like me and questioning why when oil prices went up $2.20 a barrel that the price of gasoline jumped up 35 or 40 cents a gallon immediately. But when oil prices went down $4.24 a barrel and then another $4 in the same week for a decrease of approximately $8 in one week, gas prices did not drop that dramatically. Doing the math, gas prices should have dropped by $1.50 that week. So, why doesn’t the price of gas reflect the same amount when the price of oil drops? It seems like it’s just a government and oil company game. It only benefits them. That’s too bad.

I agree with Bob from Oak Forest, for one time, about expanding the college football playoffs and the seeming snub of UCF. The thing is, once again, he's just a little off. The University of Central Florida, the one he called this little college, is in fact, one of the largest universities in the country with an enrollment of more than 66,000 students.

Vern

The public school system is broken and needs to be fixed. It is milking us dry.

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