This guy.
Through a combination of being too drunk to drive, and living close to work, I am rapidly approaching the 4 week mark since I last filled my gas tank. My last stop at a gas station was sometime on September 3rd when I was driving back to Charlottesville from Charlotte.
I’m trying to hold out until prices drop below $2.00/gallon. A linear extrapolation (yeah yeah extrapolations are stupid I know) of the data suggests that time will be next Saturday, October 7th. And I need to fill up no later than that day or else driving to Winston-Salem just won’t work out right.
But Charlottesville is above average.
However, I’m due a $0.10 per gallon savings at Kroger the next time I visit. I’d have more faith in reaching my goal if OPEC weren’t huffing and puffing (had to throw in the “huffing and puffing” part because I’m listening to Green Jellÿ’s version of the Three Little Pigs.)
Dude, you spent–I don’t know how much time on this–to show a savings of maybe $2? Why do these insignificant price flucuations garner so much attention? I heard an anchor on the news this morning say, “I saw the first gas station below $2.00 today on the way into the office ($1.98). Perfect timing for the weekend travels. I sure hope it goes down further. $1.20 would be sweet.” Unless you’re travelling 1000 miles this weekend I doubt that a twenty cent price difference even covers the extra side of macaroni and cheese you got with lunch. And even if the price somehow drops to $1.20, the price of oil is still going to go up in the long run. Bank on it.
I don’t think Americans will really show their price sensitivity until gas hits over $5/gal. The difference between $1.90 and $2.60 per gallon just isn’t THAT significant to most people’s wallets. So why all the hullabaloo? Do people get really excited when it costs $4.50 less to fill up their tank? I don’t get it. What’s that, an extra sixpack of cheap beer? Yay. Newsworthy for sure.
I’m not just doing this for money. I’m doing it for a shitload of money!
Oh wait, that’s not right. I need to stop trying to take all my words directly from movie scripts.
But yeah, had I filled up a couple weeks ago I would have been out $4 and yeah that is a 6 pack of beer.
The more important part of the post really wasn’t about the price of gas. It was about how much gas I wasn’t using. Instead of saving a few bucks a tank, I’m saving tanks.