Last night David Letterman jokingly (I hope) said gas prices will reach $10 per gallon by labor day. I filled up the Suburban this evening - the bill was about $125! Notice this was for 35 gallons. As it turned out I had almost 1/4 of a tank left when I went to the pumps. This tank holds 45 gallons. Extrapolating - a full tank would have been $160 at this price.
When I was in college I had a 1962 Volkswagen Beetle. The tank held about 10 gallons and I can remember at Ohio State going to the gas station when they had price wars. You could buy gasoline at $0.25 per gallon. An entire tank for that bug cost less than one gallon now. Actually, I bought that car for $200! Just a little over the cost of one tank of gas now. I heard someone talking recently about their old pickup truck that they were selling. The other guy in the conversation only asked one question - 'how much gas was in it?'
In case you don't know, Joyce is a fantastic gardener. We all benefit by the beauty she coaxes to grow all around us. Here is another one of her green thumb results - one of our Brugmansia - or Angel's Trumpets plants.
They just keep going up - gas prices - as if that's news. Kind of like when the local TV stations put a camera reporter on site at the post office the night of April 15 and show us the last minute tax return filers - how can they call what they do NEWS? Here's my fill-er-up today - $156 - and that's only for 39.5 gallons - the tank holds about 45! How far can this keep going?
Last night David Letterman jokingly (I hope) said gas prices will reach $10 per gallon by labor day. I filled up the Suburban this evening - the bill was about $125! Notice this was for 35 gallons. As it turned out I had almost 1/4 of a tank left when I went to the pumps. This tank holds 45 gallons. Extrapolating - a full tank would have been $160 at this price.
