Gas prices and casino visits

Rising oil prices are being blamed for a sell off of casino stocks... not just gas pump prices but also impact on jet fuel. Psychologically everyone is affected by rising pump prices. Went to Rincon last night and filling up for the ride home was near $4 a gallon. Does it make you think twice about making a trip to a casino or do you rationalize it that $4/gal or $5/gal is "one push of the button at $1 video poker?"

Anything that eats into disposable income isn't good for casino companies.

I never drive to casinos. I used to fret over airfare until someone rightfully pointed out that we were talking about one, perhaps two bets difference in the prices.

Gas prices are going up due to speculation, price gouging, and corporate greed by BIG OIL. Unfortunately Big Oil owns most of the US politicians in both parties.

YEP,what he said.

Don't forget OPEC. They are the REAL price gougers. They are raping the U. S. and the rest of the world. We have not seen the last of increasing gas prices. Don't be surprised if the next war will be about who controls the world's oil. This is the thanks we and the other countries get for going over to the middle east and building refineries there in the 50's.

Is that what we and the Europeans were doing there?

The USA will take over the world's oil assets one country at a time. That's what happened in Iraq now Libya and then Iran. The Iraqi war wasn't about WMD, it was about OIL. Bush and Chaney knew exactly why they were starting that war.....which still hasn't ended.