Perspective at the pump
Gas was cheap a decade ago when I first got my license.
When the tank was running low, you could scrounge around in the seats and cup holders, take the $4.61 in change you found and ride like royalty on a half a tank of gas.
I remembered those days when I stopped to fill up at a Texaco on High Point Road today. The driver before me had pumped $5 worth of fuel. What would once get you by for a week got that person a gallon and a half of gas.
Hope he didn't have far to go.
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Hmmmm... that fills in for me what the folks behind me must have thought when I stopped at a gas station with $3.35 per gallon price for 93 octane, just to get enough to get me to Great Stops, where it’s $3.16 per gallon.
Posted on November 28, 2007 2:27 PM
Hey, your gallon of gas still costs less than the gallon of milk at the supermarket...unless you're buying the super-primo gas like Nancy does;-). Not that I appreciate the price I have to pay for either, mind you. But the fact that you pay less for something that will power your auto for 25 miles or so than something that -as the TV announcers would say- is just one part of a healthy breakfast puts things in perspective for me.
Posted on November 28, 2007 3:34 PM