Gas prices. In the past two weeks the price of gasoline in our area has gone up just over twenty cents. It wasn't but a few years ago when a rise of a few cents would foster letters to the editor espousing conspiracy theories, collusion, and how the government should investigate. But now twenty cents and noone bats an eye. The only articles in the paper are about how the nationwide average should be near four dollars a gallon by the end of the year. FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON. And yet people still keep driving those gas guzzling tanks. Granted my truck doesn't get the best mileage, but I don't drive more than 7500 miles a year. People have very short memories, or are too young to remember the gas shortages of the early seventies. Lines at gas stations that stretched out onto roads and highways. After that there was a brief call for automakers to make more fuel efficient vehicles, but soon they were back to the large oversized SUVs. Does anyone really need a Hummer? I long for the day when I first had my license and drove to the gas station to get two dollars worth of regular. It cost 26.9 cents. You could always scrounge around in your car for change to get a couple of gallons. Now gas is more than ten times that.
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3 comments:
I can't believe they are predicting it being $4 by the end of the year. Guess we won't be taking many road trips.
actually on the news here in LA they are predicting $4 a gallon by spring. right now at the corner gas station regular gas is $3.33 a gallon. 2 weeks ago it was $3.05. it's amazing how much the prices jump. this is one of the things in this world that drive me crazy.
get this... pretty much every friday all the gas stations in this area raise their prices by 10cents or so...then come monday or tuesday the prices drop 10cents or so. UNBELIEVABLE.
our next car will definitely be a hybrid. i've only driven about 3000 miles in the past year..if that. but thankfully my car does get good gas mileage.
here in Ohio we can see gas prices change as much as 25 cents a gallon in an hour's time.
Instead of asking the government to investigate, how about investigating the government?? This stuff is allowed to continue and is nothing short of highway robbery, as the big gas companies have the guts to gloat about their billions of dollars of annual profits.
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