Price of Ga$

Ga$ prices are rising at an annoying rate. Two days ago I drove by the pumps and prices were $3.22. I had half a tank. I kept driving. Yesterday I drove by the same ga$ station and prices were $3.28. Today the price of ga$ in the 'Burg is roughly $3.35 per gallon.

Last summer when the prices crept up to about $2.70 I was surprised to discover that ga$ here in the Middle of Nowhere, Missouri was usually about 30 cents less than ga$ in Northwest Arkansas. I am not sure why that is, but I have considered that it could be our different tax rate as well as the fact that much of our ga$ here is 10% ethanol. We actually have a few stations that sell E85. Here it is usually about 60 cents less a gallon than the regular juice.

I remember the first tank of ga$ I bought. I was driving Mom's T-Bird home and used my own money to replenish the tank. I felt so grown up. (After that Dad gave me the Ga$ Card.) That would have been 1986. I paid $1.30 a gallon. It dropped to less than a dollar a year later, about the time I started college. I remember filling up my tank for just about $10 every two to three weeks.

What about you? How much did you pay for your first gallon of ga$. Come on. Share. You don't have to tell us when! And how much are you paying for ga$ now? How much is ga$ in D.C., California, Arkansas, and beyond? What are your thoughts about using ethanol? Enquiring minds want to know!