A friend and I took a road trip to a craft convention in Chicago, and found that everything is more expensive in the great state of Illinois. But nothing got to me as much as this sign for gas in downtown in The Windy City...so I had to take a picture (mind you, we're traveling around a corner in a car at night and I didn't have time to focus...but the numbers are clear enough!)
$4.66 a gallon for gas for the CHEAP STUFF! As my dad would say, that's highway robbery!
It was slightly better in the suburb where my convention was being held:
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But it was still a shock to the pocketbook at $4.37 for the lowest grade. Here in Arkansas, we danced around the $4 mark, but it never quite crossed over to the dark side. A penny away, maybe, but I've only had to pay more than $4 out of state (thanks, Kansas and Missouri!).
Still, when did society ever get to the point that we think the $3.47 we pay now is a relief and a blessing? I remember the gas crunches in California in the mid-70's where it was about 80 cents and that was bad...my how times change.
1 comment:
That is crazy! We were just in Schaumburg for a week for Geno to do some training and me to have some fun and it was only $3.99-$4.02. I know what you mean, though-I called Geno one day to tell him that I had found gas for $3.54 and then realized how crazy it was to get excited over that!
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