The cost of gas these days
Chris Byrne writes at
The Anarchangel and delivers a nice rant on the cost of gasoline these days:
Cost of Living
So, the Gullyborg put up a great little post about people not understanding what the gas price increases have really meant to them.
I compltely understand this. My wife keeps freaking out about how expensive gas is, then I remind her that it is costing us $3.20 more to fill up our 18 gallon tank (and we go through six tanks a month at 16 gallons per, never draining the tank) than it did a month ago.
$19.20 a month; and we drive about 2400 miles a month, twice the national average.
She keeps looking for places that are cheaper, and I tell her, unless it's more than $0.20 cheaper it's not worth the bother. Ten cents? That's $1.60. If you're so concerned about that $1.60 don't buy the bottle of Mountain Dew.
Very well put -- most people tend to attach importance to lots of zeros so when the price of Gas rose past the $3.00 mark, there was a collective cry to the heavens. Hell, I remember the cry at $0.75 (the
Arab Oil Embargo and at $1.00 and $2.00.
The embargo did have one benefit in that caused the USA to create the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Posted by DaveH at May 12, 2006 10:28 PM