Vitiblog

Source : Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog

I finally paid more than $4.00 per gallon for gasoline. It happened this weekend, yesterday actually, early in the morning on my way to the golf course.

I didn't see the price on the sign or the pump. I was just leaning against my car thinking what I needed to do later not to embarrass myself with my driver. Then I looked up and saw it: $4.11 for regular.

Now, I knew this was coming. Everyone knew. And the fact is I only paid a total of $1.69 more to fill of my car at this price than the last time I filled it up. Nevertheless, I was shocked. $4.00+ per gallon for gasoline!!

Did I care that I was paying an extra $1.69 to fill up my little car? No. What do I care. I spend more than that every day on my nightly dose of candy. It was the Idea that gas had reached this strange, arbitrary, $4.00 per gallon benchmark that I could not shake from my head [..]