the price for regular gas at one of the stations near my house went up 17 cents yesterday (from $2.15 to $2.32)--is that some cynical gas station owner reaction to the bombings in london? i vaguely recall gas prices shooting up after 9/11 . . . like all the gas station people assumed oil would be harder to get once we were bombing various middle eastern countries, or something.
hey, who else remembers when gas was like a dollar? being sixteen in 1995 was awesome--i had my little ol' '85 corolla and could fill the tank for ten bucks. yay nostalgia.
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well, that is sort of weird--there are three gas stations right near where i live, and two were still at 2.15 or 2.16 yesterday, and just the one was at 2.32. so i figured it had just changed, like, right then. i wonder what else could make prices shoot up so much.
Damn I'm old, because I can remember when gas was around 50 cents ...
Maybe it has something to do with the impending monster hurricane down south...and here I am running on fumes. Costco gas is always really cheap, though! Worth the "membership fee" all on its own... let alone the awesome deals on frozen chocolate fudge ice cream bars and bananas. (MIke)
i remember being able to get gas for less than 90 cents in some out-of-the-way spots in pennsylvania . . .
but i'm sure it was less than that when i was a kid--i just never noticed prices till i had to pay for gas myself. :)
I remember being in the isolation of the Rocky Mountains maybe 10 years ago, and the only gas station there had gas for 54.4 cents a litre. (54-40 is a famous number in Canadian history, and so I still remember the price). I thought that was *hideously* expensive. But what could you do? coast down the mountain? (MIke)
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