You have probably noticed you are not paying nearly as much for gas today as you did just a few months back. If you are a gas mileage and gas price nerd like me, you will know you are not imagining things. In fact, the price of gasoline has dropped to levels not seen since December 2005. Even crazier, I paid $2.339 per gallon for regular unleaded today, here in the Seattle area, which is just a couple cents more than the $2.359 I paid on June 23, 2004.
Looking at the chart below, you can clearly see the sharp decline gas prices have been on since my all-time high of $4.339 per gallon on July 8, 2008. That is almost $2 more per gallon roughly 4 months ago. Today’s price is still just a hair higher than when I wrote about how gas was fairly cheap in May 2006 at $2.259/gallon.
I have been summoned for jury duty this week for the first time in my life. It is amazing the court system never caught up with me until now but it was bound to happen eventually. I’m lucky. I report to the Kirkland Municipal Court which is a few miles from our home and is not the place hardened, life-sentence criminals are judged.
Almost 120,000 words and over 270 posts in, I figure it is time to recap some of the top posts by traffic and some of my personal favorites. This post is also a good reference if you are new to Keith’s Amusing Musings and don’t want to sift through 55 pages separating wheat from chaff.
