Oh, and my gas just went up .10 per gallon.....$2.69

[hunter]

8. I've been driving more than half a century now...

... and maybe only 10% of that time has the price of gasoline been any concern of mine.

When I was a wild young creature I could fill up the tank of my little Toyota for about an hours labor. I abused that privilege driving all over the Western U.S.A. for mostly frivolous reasons.

There was also a time where I didn't have a working car.

When my wife and I got married and had babies we had huge medical and student loan debts, lower income, and the price of gasoline mattered to us.

Higher income, medical and student loan debts cleared, the price of gasoline was back to not being of any concern to us.

Then my wife got a serious illness, random shit falling out of the sky, and we were back to medical debt, lower income, and the price of gasoline mattering to us.

My wife recovered, the medical debt is cleared, and we're back to not being concerned about the price of gasoline.

In a better world nobody would have to worry about the price of gasoline. We'd rebuild our cities, turning them into attractive affordable places where car ownership was unnecessary. A gasoline dependent lifestyle would be a personal choice and the price of gasoline would be of no concern to most people.