We all know what Tar Pitch (Asphalt) and Gasoline are. They are very different compounds.
Gasoline Prices are very much like a Geyser (a spring that throws a jet of hot water or steam into the air at intervals). Recently the Price Gasoline demonstrated its Geyser Characteristics by shooting up overnight because of Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.
Where I live, all the gasoline stations tweeted to each other one night as Harvey was approaching Texas and agreed with each other that, since Harvey could, would, could possibly, just might interrupt Refinery Activity, there was now acceptable justification to raise the Price of Gasoline. The next morning they all posted their Regular Gasoline price at exactly $2.75 (from $2.19 to $2.29).
Geysers shoot up fast and they come down fast. This is not the case with Gasoline Prices. The Price of Gasoline immediately shed its Geyser Characteristics and took on its Tar Pitch Characteristics.
What the heck am I talking about? Please allow me to start making sense…
The Price of Gasoline shot up like a Geyser and is now falling with the Characteristics of Tar Pitch
This is the part of this Blog Posting where you really start to learn something.
In several slow moving experiments Tar Pitch has been proven to be a Liquid…
… since 1927 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, which Guinness World Records lists as the world’s longest-running laboratory experiment. Physicist Thomas Parnell set it up because he wanted to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit surprising properties. In the past 86 years that experiment has yielded eight drops, with the ninth drop now almost fully formed and about to fall.
http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418
Where I live the Price of Gasoline has started it Tar Pitch Fall. A few stations have started posting their Regular Gasoline price at $2.71. We are all excited as we anticipate a further drop to $2.70 any week now.
I wish one of those hackers would take some time out from attacking the devil out of Equifax, Target and the Securities and Exchange Commission and hack into the Gasoline Stations Price Fixing Tweeting Cartel and give us an over-night $.50 drop in the pump price because I’m running on empty.
Would I kid u?
AlexO
