Gas Prices The Rise and Fall and Rise Again?
Well, I finally got off my butt and got all my Gas Price photos organized and posted here. This shows the Rise & Fall of gasoline prices at Love's from late August until December 14, 2008. I don't know what they are now. Today is Monday, my day off and where I work is the last place I want to be on day off and besides it's cold outside - blistering 10 degrees! With wind chill factored in it's -2 degrees!! My little, young butt is going nowhere but here. And that's a fact.
Now as you look at these keep in mind that I really didn't intend to make or keep a running record of the gas prices at Love's. It just sort'a, kind'a happened. My sister gave me a Kodak EasyShare V530 digital camera and I was just looking for stuff to photograph. The Gas Marque at Love's was available and ... well, it just sort'a, kind'a happened. Before then my camera had been a Sony Mavica Digital Still Camera MVC-FD73. Quite adequate for my use but somewhat bulky to lug around everywhere unlike the Kodak, which easily slips into any available pocket.
Also, keep in mind that until recently the Date/Time function on my camera was not properly set. Consequently, the dates I have given to these photos is only slightly better than an educated, carefully calculated wild-ass guess.
Anyway ...
August 29, 2008.
September 17, 2008
September 19, 2008
September 20, 2008
September 24, 2008
September 27, 2008
October 1, 2008
October 3, 2008
October 3, 2008. This was a Friday. Friday's are payday and the price change between this photo and the one above happened after I had left that morning at 8AM and before I returned that afternoon to pick up my paycheck.
October 4, 2008, in the wee hours of the morning.
October 4, 2008, later that evening ~11:50PM, as I was going to work, just before I walked in the door and clocked in. This price changed happened earlier in the day.
October 5, 2008. This price change happened just before I left work and went home ~7:30AM or so. I seem to remember this because if I'm remembering correctly I had to go back out and fix a booboo I had made on the other side of the marque - I had one of the 6's backwards.
October 8, 2008
October 10, 2008
October 12, 2008
October 15, 2008
October 16, 2008. There wasn't any change ... oh, well, huh? This was taken in the wee hours of the morning.
October 16, 2008. I took this later that day. I can't remember what I was doing there at that time. This was a Thursday ... maybe I was buying gas ... hmm ... who knows?
October 17, 2008.
October 18, 2008
October 19, 2008. Notice the funny numeral "2" in the premium price. We ran out of number "2"s so we used a backwards/upside down "5" to fill in.
October 20, 2008.
October 24, 2008. Things went back up a bit. Also, notice the upside down "3" in the 232 for the NoLead Plus! I never noticed it before now. I don't think anyone else ever did either, or at least not that I ever heard about.
October 25, 2008.
October 26, 2008. Back down to where we were on the 20th.
October 29, 2008. At about this time everyone was starting to wonder if the price would go below $2 a gallon.
October 30, 2008
October 31, 2008. Regular gas goes down under $2 a gallon!!
November 4, 2008. The price of gas continues to go down and Barrack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States. I also took this night off from work and stayed home and got drunk.
November 5, 2008. No Lead Plus goes under $2 a gallon too!
November 13, 2008
November 15, 2008
November 16, 2008
November 22, 2008
November 27, 2008
December 5, 2008, another day shot, another payday Friday.
December 6, 2008
December 7, 2008
December 10, 2008. Looks like the price sort'a hovered at this level for a few days.
December 11, 2008
December 12, 2008. This was the lowest point that the gas prices reached.
Decemnber 13, 2008. The pain returns!
December 14, 2008. The pain lessens but ...
Yesterday, my brother and I went to lunch together and then went to WalMart were I did some Christmas shopping. I was in such a hurry to leave WalMart that I forgot to buy food. I discovered this oversight earlier this morning. Well, I called Butch today (December 15, 2008) at lunch and told what I had done (or not done depending on your point of view) and asked him to run me back out to WalMart after he got off from work. At about 5:05PM tonight he came and got me when he got off work and we took off. As we turned off of Frey Street onto 10th, I looked back at Love's to see the gas prices and ... Regular Unleaded was at $1.54 and NoLead Plus was at $1.64 and so it begins again ...
December 14, 2008. The pain lessens but ...
Yesterday, my brother and I went to lunch together and then went to WalMart were I did some Christmas shopping. I was in such a hurry to leave WalMart that I forgot to buy food. I discovered this oversight earlier this morning. Well, I called Butch today (December 15, 2008) at lunch and told what I had done (or not done depending on your point of view) and asked him to run me back out to WalMart after he got off from work. At about 5:05PM tonight he came and got me when he got off work and we took off. As we turned off of Frey Street onto 10th, I looked back at Love's to see the gas prices and ... Regular Unleaded was at $1.54 and NoLead Plus was at $1.64 and so it begins again ...
I hope you enjoyed this, it took more to put together than it looks like. I've got some complaints about blogspot because of this experience. At some point in the future I'll tell you about them. For now I'm going to wrap this up and go to bed.
Take Care, Be Good, and Don't Play in the Street!
posted by Steve Mule at 3:23 PM
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