Holiday fuel spikes

I am old enough to know that for 20, 30, 40 or more years that gas prices have gone up every year before Memorial Day and down after Labor Day, which is the period of most traveling. Then fuel oil rise every Labor Day and go down every spring. It seems this is against all logic except, in my opinion, to make profit.

I believe any other product mass sales means price reduction, but not in gas or heating oil, it means greater profit in my opinion.

I can’t help but wonder why, when we have so-called investigations of prices, there is always an excuse for gas prices to rise in May fall in October, and heating prices to go up in October and fall in April every year and there is always an excuse.

One has to wonder just what is going on and who is making all this money and why it’s been going on for what. Forty years with 40 different excuses? Come on, let’s be real. I won’t even go into the so-called shortage of the 1970s. Donald G. Arguin Old Town