(click on picture to read it a bit easier)I am confused. I filled my gas tank yesterday and paid only $3.25 per gallon. Actually, I paid $3.259 per gallon but no one pays attention to that "9/10" anymore. What happened to us? We complained bitterly as gas rose and then we stopped. We just accepted the high prices.
We have done this over and over again in the past. I remember my brother-in-law asking me what the price of gas was in West Palm Beach before I moved here. He was angry that he had to pay over $1.85 a gallon for Extra (for his Cadillac). I heard the howls of anger as it climbed over $3.00 a gallon back in the spring of 2008.
And then it dropped. It dropped down to below $1.80 at the end of 2008. Since then it has climbed and climbed and climbed.
But I no longer hear the complaints, I no longer hear the outrage.
It's just another straw for the camel, I guess, and the camel bears it... unlike the idiom.
The chart above was generated at Gasbuddy.com
2 comments:
$3.25 per gallon sounds pretty good to me. Out here in Oregon I last paid $3.85 for regular unleaded. I don't drive much but I think about it every time I'm watching a"Cops" episode that's only a few years old and the police car speeds past a gas station advertising gas for $1.45 a gallon.
Ha, I always make a point of rounding up when I read gas prices...the $0.009 is one of those things that irritate me far more than I should let it. When I make my first billion I'm gonna buy a gas station, charge a little more than neighboring stations, not charge fractions of a cent, and hire somebody to come up with witty advertising slogans. i hope for a chain reaction of common sense.
now all that's left is to somehow get rich...
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