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[which_chick]

Gasoline was $2.99 a gallon this morning on my way to work. On my way home from work, it was $3.19 a gallon. I have never before seen gasoline at these prices around here, and I've lived here damn near all my life. I wonder what gasoline will cost tomorrow? I wonder what people are going to do for heating oil this winter. (We already bought heating oil for all of our apartment buildings, enough for all winter long, about two weeks before Katrina hit... and the two-dollars-and-change we paid for the oil is looking mighty good right now, I gotta say.)

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[ksleet.livejournal.com]

Uh, it's remarkably affordable, especially lately...

I've been trying to not mention it in front of the folks at work, though, since they're always grousing about how much it costs to fuel up their high-performance sports coupes now. (Also, I've always found people who find some sort of moral superiority in taking public transportation to be almost uniquely irritating, and I'm not going to even resemble that person if I can help it.)

On a tangential note, I saw a Prius today. It's a handsome and futuristic car. Weirdly shaped, though, and big. I guess 90% of the trunk is batteries or ultimate terror fields or whatever it is those things run on. Several folks at work have made noises about trading in for one.