CALIFORNIA'S GAS PRICES HAS JUMP-UP

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Here we go again: Gas prices are going up, while the price of crude-oil, gasoline's raw material, has not moved up in several weeks, according to the AAA auto club.

The big question is why, and their excuse is: That there is a big drop in fuel production. California's supply is twenty-seven percent lower then that they were at this time last year, according to the California Energy Commission. The refineries are producing six percent less gasoline for sale. Still the big question is, Why?

Is it because they noticed that their "big profits" were disappearing and to increase their profits, they had to do something. Many of the rerefineries cut back to increase their profits, so it seems. California refineries are using the excuse that they are switching blends of gas from winter to summer, which decreases their production(???).

Sounds good for an excuse to increase their profits, but could someone really tell the public why, for no reason, gas prices have started to jump about fourteen cents a month in the last two months?

Could it be summer is only five months away and gas prices must go up so that the gas companies can make "big profits" off of the tourist that will visit the state?

What is you opinion the real reason is?