Walk This Way (July 10)

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, with a flip of a switch, it happened -- $3.09 became $3.29 for a gallon of gas.

This did not seem to happen one station at a time, but rather all at once, and all over town.

Maybe I did not see it correctly, but by 10:10, five stations that I drove by were all $3.29.

I used to think the tanker came to the gas station, refilled the station, and then the price changed. Maybe that was from too many years of living in smaller communities than this.

I had given up long ago reading the news on reasons why gas prices go up and down as they do for the simple reason that they either have no idea as to why, or do not want to let you know why.

I have always said to myself why is there never a graph in the news about the price of gas on a given day, and the price of oil on that day.

Oil is around $84 a barrel, and going down, but gas prices are up 7.1 percent.

I am a numbers guy. I think it might be time to start that graph. If for anything my own justification.