[stormer]

I couldn’t find a more recent picture - this one is hours old. I paid $4.28 yesterday for regular. Yikes! I don’t want to date myself, but I remember being outraged when it hit $.40, and I swore if it ever got to a buck I’d quit driving. LOL

[Myrddin]

I filled up the tank of my Honda CB175 with premium priced at 25.9 cents per gallon when I was in high school. Most of the time it was priced at 29.9 and raised to astronomical ripoff prices of 38.9 on big weekends e.g. Memorial Day. The last time I was "outraged" at the pump price is at a Union 76 station selling for 76.9 when all the surrounding stations were at 58.9.

My son just purchased at 1998 Ford Explorer with the Eddie Bauer trim package for $4,000. The 2002 Ford Ranger XLT pickup was priced at $7495 and was relatively bare bones. We've driven the Explorer for a few days now. It is averaging 12.1 miles per gallon. At that rate, a typical 12,000 miles per year and $4 per gallon is going to add up to $4,000. The money he saved will all go into the gas tank in the first year. Fortunately, he only has a 6 mile round trip to work. He won't need to drive anywhere near 12,000 miles a year.