Weird News

as old as you are, I do remember 35 cents a gallon for gas. And when I was making two bucks and change per hour, that seemed like a lot of money.

Today, we filled up both cars at the same pump, our local supermarket sells gas, and gives you money off for purchases of eligible products. If they allowed such credits on beer, I might not have to pay for gas at all! In any case, from stocking up over the last month, we had fifty cents credit per gallon on up to 25 gallons of gas. And the price had gone down to $1.84.9 so that worked out to about a buck thirty-five per gallon of gas.

Yes, we blew the wad with today's purchase, but with not really driving anywhere, that gasoline should last us quite a long time. It is comforting to know that if the power goes out (human beings make the power plants run) and we get a series of hot humid nights, we can spend several hours in one or the other vehicles in the driveway with the motor running and the A/C on to get some sleep, then it will not cost an arm and a leg to fill the tank back up. Way cheaper than a motel room that happens to have power someplace.