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The $100 Fill Up!

I am glad I live only about 8 blocks fromwhat!
work! I remember the first time it cost me
$30 to fill up my car, and then $40 for aCalifornia is home to the nation's highest
tank full, and then more recently $50. My songas price, $3.87 for regular unleaded; diesel
who lives on the West coast, has nowis pushing $4.43 a gallon, according to Troy
experienced the $75 a tank fill up. AndGreen, with AAA. San Francisco is the most
that's the GOOD NEWS! The bad news is thatexpensive city at $3.97 a gallon. However, a
before we crash the world's economy with $125drive around the city shows many stations
a barrel oil, we'll probably see it cost $100have  jumped  over  $4.
to fill up your car. In fact the $100 fill up
is  here  now.The national average for regular unleaded is
$3.53 and rising daily. Last year at this
But if you're driving a big rig you know ittime, it was $2.86 per gallon. According to
takes hundreds of dollars to fill up. And ifAAA, 24 states and the District of Columbia
you're driving a passenger van pulling aare averaging at or above $3.50 a gallon for
trailer the $100 fill up has already come.regular unleaded. The state with the lowest
Here's  a  specific  example.gas  is  New  Jersey,  at  $3.34  per gallon.
Noel Bosse and Ken Davis watch as the numbersThis years oil spike is going to kill the
keep spinning at the gas pump -- 70 bucks, 80goose  laying  those  golden  eggs!
bucks. Gulp, guzzle, then it stops: $101 for
about 25 gallons. The $100 fill-up hasThis year's record high gas prices -- coupled
arrived in the United States. Bosse and Daviswith a slow economy and the mortgage crisis
are returning from Las Vegas, Nevada, heading-- have had a cascading effect. A person
back to their home near Seattle, Washington.making $9 an hour needs to work nearly seven
They're pulling a trailer full of Arabianhours just to pay for 15 gallons at $4 a
horses in their passenger van. The 1,200-milegallon, according to CNN.com's gas
trek is costing nearly $1 a mile. Bosse sayscalculator. In other words, you're working
they're averaging 200 miles every fill-up, orone  day  a  week  just  to  pay  for  gas!
10  miles  to  the  gallon.
How long do you think the economy can handle
And just think, we get to add FOOD RATIONINGthat? Not long!
to our life now as well. Is life good or



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