Okay, I know the talk about gas is a sore spot for some of us. As I get up and head out the door to go to work this morning, I pass by a Pilot gas station on my way to work and the price of reg unleaded gas is $3.67/ga and then as I am coming home from work today 9 hours later, the same station is now selling gas for $4.69/ ga. As a Holy Cow, you can't be serious flies off my tongue, I just shake my head in utter disgust.
Yes there is hurricane brewing in the Gulf named Ike, never knew such a name could strike so much fear in a nation. Yes, I realize hurricanes are destructive and know all to well the damage they can do, especially after hurricane Katrina wrecked havoc three years previously on the Gulf Coast. So this hurricane has sent people scrambling to go and top off their tanks, fill up and prepare for the worst. Gas companies are shuting down refineries in Texas because they don't know what this storm will do. So for that reason gas can go up over a dollar in less then 9 hours? Come on there has to be a law against this right? Surely someone is getting rich off of this and it's not me.
Thankfully I had the common sense to fill up my van yesterday at $3.64/ga (that and I was almost empty!), sad thing is I only get 19.2 miles/ga in my van and it takes over $60 to fill it up. Sixty dollars to fill up a minivan......are you serious? I can garantee that the price will not come down as fast as it went up. They have conditioned us now to think that $3.49/ga. is a cheap price to pay. I remember back in 2001 on a trip down to Disney World that we payed $0.89/ga for gas. That seems like eons ago and I know it is a price I will never see again in my lifetime.
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