EDITOR:

We go into Christmas week and gas is $2.64 a gallon. Not too bad. The statewide average goes down 7 cents. Then we see Krist Oil go up to $3.29. A 65 cents increase in one fell swoop. What exactly is a “fell swoop”? Anyway. Holiday and Admiral don’t follow the increase, so they come back down to $2.99. A day and a half later, everyone is at $3.19. It used to be (before the pandemic) that the gas companies had set excuses: one was the “winter blend” and the other was that phantom refinery fire. And the refinery fires always happened right before a holiday, or Fair Week, or something like that. We don’t have a winter or summer blend up here. It’s all the same. Some places do have different gas for different seasons. Not us.

I haven’t heard of any refinery fires lately. Even if a refinery fire were happening, it would not affect the gas being delivered. There is as much as three weeks to three months of gas in storage. Those big tanks outside of Green Bay are full.

Tom Grant

Escanaba