I've Got Gas!!!!.................Gas Pains Suck

Driving out of my wonderful little town, I glanced at one of the gas stations that I frequent. Lo and behold, gas prices had dropped below $2.00 per gallon! I was happy. Little did I know, but I should have stopped...........

On my way to the doc’s office, I stopped being happy about how gas had fallen below $2.00 per gallon and started getting angry...........

That’s right. I got angry at being happy. I’m angry that gas at $1.98 makes me happy. What has happened to me? The insidious psychology of the gas moguls has seized my brain. They’ve done it. I’m nothing more than a Pavlovian gas dog.......I wag my tail and eagerly buy when gas “dips” to the $2.00 level. In less than a year, I have completely forgotten the glorious $1.39 days. The $.79 cent days of my youth are nothing but ancient history. My kids look at me as if I was Hannibal crossing the Alps on an elephant!

Ok, already. I have a Suburban. A gas guzzler. The wooly mammoth of vehicles. I’m doing my part to deplete the Earth of all possible resources at the earliest possible time. Still, I hate pulling out the cash to refill the insatiable gas demands of my vehicle! I so desperately want to deplete the Earth’s resources at little cost to me!

But I digress. I drive five miles out of town and see that gas has changed to $2.27 in five minutes! By the time I arrive at my destination some 25 miles away, gas at every station is now $2.27 and $2.28. How is it that gas drops in increments of 1 and 2 cents and increases at $.30 cent intervals? How is it that every gas station in Southwestern Michigan jumps the same $.30 cents within 45 minutes?

Should I call my congressman (or woman, as the case may be)? No. Not likely to help. They drive. If they could do something or wanted to do something, they would have already. Should I complain to someone? Who? Once I find out who to complain to, what do I say that isn’t already obvious to anyone who is alive and can pump gas?

Sadly, I review my options and deplore them. There really is only one option open to me. Put your money where the money is. Buy Shell..............Buy Exxon...........Oh, excuse me........I’ve got gas.

Blawgerman