"Price of gas up 18 cents in the past two weeks"
"Lundberg survey of 7,000 stations says average cost in U.S. is $2.78 a gallon."
Must be (pick two):
A: Heating oil driving up demand (as demonstrated by generally colder weather in Spring than Winter),
B: Summer driving increasing demand (evidenced by warm weather and summer vacations),
C: US destabilizing Middle East driving up price (as seen in the spot price of oil),
D: Too little competition, allowing de facto price fixing (which would show up in oil company profits).
Arf (So what's the answer, Bow? One C and three Ds will give you the right mix.)