You're only thinking in static terms, Resurg.

When prices are climbing steadily, NOT due to demand [[which I've never seen proven makes any form of dent in gasoline pricing anyways!) but rather from world events that will most certainly restrict supply...

...it is WAY smarter to get what you can, while you can, at TODAY'S pricing. As long as the product is stable enough to store in the quantities you can afford to legally hold...and with gasoline there are curious storage laws that seem designed for safety but can be construed as merely keeping us at the mercy of the oil companies.


I cannot see how this does anything but move the overall demand curve forward in time a bit, and protects us against this inflation.

Most of you are not old enough to remember when gas first made that big jump in the seventies during the oil crisis...I barely am...but WAS working at a gas station in the late 70s when we had to first figure out how to put a third significant digit up on the pole when the price went over 99.9 cents per gallon!


Cheers