fueling

Man, the day greets me in strange ways. Sometimes it will greet me by playing a little joke on me by preventing the alarm from going off (this past Wednesday & Thursday). Other times it will greet me by being unseasonably cold in my kitchen. More frequently, my mornings have been riddled with climbing gas prices.

On my drive to work the first thing I see just before I get on the highway is the giant sign for Pilot, a gas station in Bentleyville. I always look to it just before I get on route 70 because its one of the cheaper gas stations in the area as it takes about a day or so longer for them to raise gas prices. Lately, though, they've been right on the ball. Within this week I've seen the price of gas jump from $3.75 to $3.99. That's a real bummer for everyone, especially those of us who are comically underpaid. Watching a Today interview with Jim Cramer (you know, the "Mad Money!" guy) he speculates that only when gas climbs to $6.00 per gallon will we see any kind of drastic change that could alter the demand for gas - and thusly drive price downward again.

(Later in my trip to work, I managed to find a station that was still @ $3.89, so I filled up there this morning. $44.00! And I drive a Caliber!)

I definitely remember the days where I would call my mom from the Crossroads in Richeyville and tell her to get there ASAP because fuel was only $1.34/gallon. I know this is stating the obvious, but man, we're never gonna see those days again. One thing is certain: I've never envied Prius owners more.