on the back porch on 39th terrace, originally uploaded by sparrowsfall.
impressively enough, gas prices continue to edge up at national highs here in the nondescript non-driving month of april. $3.386 a gallon regular today, and, more dangerously, $4.119 a gallon for diesel. california’s above $3.80 regular–wonder what leno’s saying about that? gas prices are a favorite riff of his, but i never get to stay up that late anymore–just wake up that late.
kansas city prices are still mysteriously “low”, around $3.17, and missouri’s, though something of a hodge-podge now, are generally lowish also, except for st louis, which is starting to look like high-priced illinois.
sunday’s star had three front page articles about energy, fuel, and food, and monday’s focused on food as well. it’s beginning to smell like trouble out in the wide world. not that trouble will come this time. but every time energy costs spike the last three or four years, they never quit go down to previous levels . . . and the next time the spike is noticeably higher.
i’m getting just a little nervous, not about 70s-style gas crises here, although that’s always just a hurricane or a saudi coup away, but about famine, instability, and finger-pointing in the third world . . .
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