$1.99 gas; best part of my Kansas City trip

October 31st, 2008 at 10:33am Georgette Braun

Sorry for the weeklong blogging absence. Was out of a town with a friend for a business trip to Kansas City.

Best part of the trip, besides twice eating great barbecued beef and pork at Jack Stack’s, was the price of gas.

In Cameron, Mo., we paid $1.99 a gallon, and we were stoked. Then, we were really stoked when we saw a sign in Iowa a bit closer to home on our return trip at $1.97 a gallon.

But the euphoria didn’t last long. We never saw anything cheaper than $2.09 after that, and of course, when we got back to Rockford, it was $2.49.

Bummer.

But cheaper gas is a two-edged sword, I hear on the news. That’s because our economy is so bad that demand for gas is down, so the price is lower.

I get it, but even though I’m like everybody else and watching for waiting for any signs of economic uplifts, don’t look for me or anyone else to be whoopin’ it up if the price of gas climbs past $3 again.

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