Gas Prices Creeping Up, Demand Still Down

I have the typical attention span of a journalist, and once the gas price spike turned into whatever the opposite of a spike is, I rushed off to the next front page thought, but really, gas prices have remained interesting:

Gasoline Prices

Gasoline Prices

But for full context, also this:

Gasoline Consumption

Gasoline Consumption

Sorta hard to see without referring to the underlying data, but year over year, current consumption is lower right now in the United States than it’s been since 2003, if I’m reading the numbers right.