As you may have noticed, gas prices have been on the rise these past few days. In fact, a gallon of gasoline now costs more than four dollars and in some cases over five or six dollars.

You can blame the oil companies, economy, world politics, government taxes, OPEC, Iran or maybe gas station owner greed.

Last Wednesday, ABC News’ Cecilia Vega was reporting on the rising gas prices at “World News with Diane Sawyer” live from a gas station in Los Angeles. After her introduction, the video showed footage from various U.S. cities.

Two minutes later, when Vega came back on the air the gas price displayed on the digital board behind her had jumped by 10 cents from US$4.99 to US$ to US$5.09!

Perhaps it’s pure coincidence, but during those two minutes a yellow and a silver Corvette had entered the gas station and were waiting at the pumps…

Video follows below.

Story References: ABC News

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