"Costco is working on a plan to alert its members as gasoline runs out at the companys stores so customers dont have to guess where to go, Cole said. The company will sell whatever premium gasoline it has stored for regular gasoline prices wherever supplies run out, he said. Costco is a membership warehouse club with a relationship based on trust, he said. Were not delivering what the members asked us to deliver, and thats not acceptable to us. So were doing whatever we can to fix it.

This is a very informative article.

 

Gas prices set a record in California

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-gas-price-record-20121006,0,3160717.story

Snippy would like to be able to increase his wages by 25% every time the lights go out.

The lights would go out a lot. From factors totally out of Snippy's control, of course.

(Snippy won't be able to explain the grapht going to Phreddie the Electrician, though.