The date is Sunday July 6, 2008. This picture was taken at a gas station on the Loop directly off Old Tyler Rd. I had just stepped off the Greyhound (yes, Greyhound) bus, and wanted to document this. I didn't know the price of gas would come down, epsecially so drastically and quickly. I thought it would at least be high for years. But that's when the economy went under, although some claimed the "fundamentals of our economy are strong," and with a creepy grin-smile-laugh, the prices plummetted! Nothing fun about that except for cheaper reasons to drive your guzzler!
This is a picture taken on December 13 while driving south on H 59. We passed this Chevron (not the same station in above picture) and the gas here was $1.42 and that wasn't the lowest in town! I believe the lowest we saw en route to Bush Intercontinental Airport Houston was $1.35, and I have a picture of that, but can't seem to find it. Mysteriously disappeared. Anyhoo, that is a $2.62 drop on unleaded fuel in East Texas, in just over 5 months. And news was recently released that OPEC will drive the market price of oil to $70/barrel in the New year. It currently stands at $42/barrel. That's a slash of roughly 2.2 million barrels/day to drive up the cost again. Your thoughts
-The Dreamer
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We just made some people STOOPID rich while we got poorer tryna fill our tanks.
-blctxt
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