My wife and I were driving down the street the other day when we passed a couple of gas stations.  The price was down to 3.07.  My wife said, wow gas is really going down!  A short while later, I heard someone else refer to gas "getting cheap."  Wow.  We call $3 for a gallon of gas cheap? 

Let's do a little timeline here from my memory.  When I turned 16 in 1999, gas was about $1.40 a gallon.  Fast forward a few years to college in 2003, gas was fluctuating around $1.89 a gallon.  In 2006, I distinctly remember gas reaching $2.25 (I had just bought a truck and needed to budget for gas.)  Then it skyrocketed to $4 in the next two years.  It's been hovering now between $3-4 gallons ever since.  That's like 6 years.

The problem is when we start calling $3 a gallon of gas cheap, people start driving more.  We don't pay attention to conserving gasoline and fossil fuels.  Then the demand goes back up.  Then we start paying $5 a gallon for gas.  Pretty soon $4 a gallon starts to look cheap.

See where I'm going?   So yeah, I'm going to enjoy the lower gas prices in comparison,  but I'm still gonna treat it like liquid gold when I'm driving.

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