Today, I spent over $100 on gas… yes, this is one of the pain points having of having two cars: they can sometimes cycle together and you have to hit the gas station twice in one day. The Jeep was $51.05 and the Mini was $54.40. I have little to say about that, actually. I mean, sure, gas is priced higher than before, but… well… I feel like we’ve been getting away with it for a while, considering the price of gas in Canada and the EU. Especially if you adjust today’s prices for today’s inflation – gas never really tracked along with our countries cost of living; this is the bounce back of that and if you opted to buy stock in oil companies, you probably aren’t complaining much at all either… just the other day someone made mention that gasoline is worse now than it was during the shortage in the 70’s – I had to plug my ears so my brain didn’t ooze out. I’m old enough to remember the “original” gas crisis: lines a mile long and simply no gasoline to be had. The crisis wasn’t that it was nearly $2/gallon – the crisis was caused by the fact that no matter how much money you had, you still didn’t get gas. There was a shortage rather than a price hike. Rookies.

What does piss me off is the quiet “oops, we just went to a 9% sales tax in King County” bill passage… maybe it was because of the conference or the trip to CT, but I knew nothing about it… and WTF? Nine percent? That has got to be a US record…

Maybe they plan to help with the roads around here by making nets out of money under all of the elevated structures?