On his walk to work this morning, Brendan noticed that the price of gas at the Exxon station near his house had risen to $3.49 for a gallon of regular unleaded. Shell stations in the area are selling gas today at a somewhat lower price – $2.99 a gallon – but still up from the $2.60 or so it’s been in recent months. The New York Times is reporting gas prices of $3.89 for premium in Chicago, and gas lines in parts of the south and midwest for the first time since the 1970s. The increase in price today is due in large part to the devastation of oil refineries on the Gulf Coast.
Now would be the time to start biking and taking public transportation, if you don’t already.
$3.58 at the Richadale near my house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts – up $.41 from yesterday’s price. I find that amazing considering that it’s the same gas in the ground that was there yesterday. I’m starting to think that gas is actually becoming a new form of taxation, or a way of further separating the classes. Our entire society is so dependent on gas, that I shudder to think of the long reaching implications of this looming crisis.
A junkie going through withdrawal will do anything to get their next fix, and if our leaders don’t start leading on this issue, America will become an international junkie jonesing for gasoline – a very volatile stiuation that will make us more enemies and put us all in much more precarious situation than the current one we are experiencing.
We’ve spent billions in Iraq, and thousands of American lives. Maybe we should add the casualties from the NOLA disaster to the war tally.
I wonder what the price of gas in Iraq is today…
Check out Matt Savinar’s site Life After the Oil Crash, which uses current information available from leading geologists, phisicists, and investment bankers to support his view of the world and the way it will be in the very near future.
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