The gas prices of Death (Valley)

Yikes.

Submitter Kristin sends us this crazy photo taken at a Death Valley gas station. Sends an involuntary shudder down your spine, no? “Mark Pozorski shot this pic two weeks ago in Death Valley; his record gas purchase. Most Motorcycles require Premium. It went up to $5.90/gal. last week,” Kristin explains.

Over at CNN’s iReport, they have a photo from what appears to be the same Shell station with a slightly different price, apparently taken a week ago, but price is still well above $5 per gallon.

Imagine — just days ago our pal Peter Viles over at L.A. Land (the Times’ real estate blog) showed us high prices in Brentwood. And now this?

You can check out other readers’ photos of the rising cost of gas here.

These are the worst gas prices we’ve seen yet — but you tell us. Have you seen (gulp) worse? Send us a photo (just choose the “Your News” category and the “Pain at the Pump” album).

“Manson Would’ve Hated This Too” from the album Pain at the Pump, submitted by Kristin

–Lindsay Barnett

@LAT

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It won’t be long and this price will seem cheap. A barrel of oil is pounding on the $130 door, and with no one to reign in the egregious use of pricing to reap record profits, is likely to go up even further.

Ratcheting up into complete fascistic control we are entering uncharted territory.
As some have stated we are going to collapse economically just because of this misuse and ‘gaming’ the system being done while the American people are asleep at the switch.

One thing for sure, no one will be running too far or willing risk bankruptcy spending $10/gal. to drive out of this madness.

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