The three subjects I typically complain about the most are how the writers ruined the television show Las Vegas, President Bush and what he’s managed to do to this country, and the price of gas. I pass a gas station on my way to school/lab everyday, so I pretty much get to watch the daily, and sometimes less than daily, changes in price. I can distinctly remember this day about 4 years ago when I passed and was horrified to see that gas had gone past 2 dollars per gallon. I ranted for quite awhile about gas being 2.04 a gallon, recalling my freshman year of college at the University of Kentucky when gas was less than a dollar a gallon at times. Over the next 3 years, I would watch the price of gas creeping higher and higher. It passed 3 dollars a gallon, and I once again ranted and raved. Then, late last summer, I watched it soar to 3.40 a gallon. (This happened to coincide when I was doing my pig feeding project and had to drive clear over to the other side of town and about 2 miles beyond twice a day.) It dropped again, but back in February, it started skyrocketing. The price had been falling a few cents at a time lately, hovering just above 3 dollars. Today on my way home though, regular gas was priced at 2.99 a gallon!

I was ecstatic. It seems so cheap for it to be less than three dollars a gallon. And, to think, back in fall of 2001 I was horrified when gas went to 1.35/gallon in Lexington once. If 2.99/gallon seems cheap now, I think if by some miracle it ever went to 1.35/gallon again, I’d feel like I was stealing.