On the way home from visiting our son in Vermont, we stopped at a hotel in Illinois last night and I was too tired to fill up and we went to bed and let the storms pass overnight. Luckily we missed the hail they had just south of here. This morning I put in 17 gallons of premium at $4.59 a gallon and last night it was $4.19 a gallon on the sign. $78 for a fill up and I just stood there and said to myself, there is no sense in getting angry with things I have no control over.
We've been lucky in the US with reasonable gas prices for a long time and the M5 has the best highway mileage of any vehicle I own right now, but when I turned on the radio and one commentator said the cost rise was because of refinery shutdowns in Louisiana, another said it was because oil is bought on the open market in US dollars and the US dollar is down, and on TV in the hotel this morning it said it was because of the situation in Libya and other countries vying for oil from different ports that relied on Libya, I got the idea it's just an excuse for them to jack up the price of gas and no one really knows what's going on. I still remember the days of gas wars in the 1950s when I first started driving and 19 cent a gallon gas - yep, I'm an old fart! I realize it's all supply and demand, and with demand down in the US with more economical cars, some other countries like China, have greatly increasing demand, but when we left 7 days ago I paid $3.79 a gallon for premium. Time to get on the highway and once I get behind the wheel of my M5, turn on some Paul Muriat on the CD and put the seat heater on, it will make me realize once again, how much fun driving can be in the ultimate driving machine, in spite of the cost of gasoline! Sorry, I just had to vent.
We've been lucky in the US with reasonable gas prices for a long time and the M5 has the best highway mileage of any vehicle I own right now, but when I turned on the radio and one commentator said the cost rise was because of refinery shutdowns in Louisiana, another said it was because oil is bought on the open market in US dollars and the US dollar is down, and on TV in the hotel this morning it said it was because of the situation in Libya and other countries vying for oil from different ports that relied on Libya, I got the idea it's just an excuse for them to jack up the price of gas and no one really knows what's going on. I still remember the days of gas wars in the 1950s when I first started driving and 19 cent a gallon gas - yep, I'm an old fart! I realize it's all supply and demand, and with demand down in the US with more economical cars, some other countries like China, have greatly increasing demand, but when we left 7 days ago I paid $3.79 a gallon for premium. Time to get on the highway and once I get behind the wheel of my M5, turn on some Paul Muriat on the CD and put the seat heater on, it will make me realize once again, how much fun driving can be in the ultimate driving machine, in spite of the cost of gasoline! Sorry, I just had to vent.
