Check your gas stations and you’ll notice one despairing factor: gas prices aren’t going down. In fact, in some places around the United States, they might be going slightly up. Don’t cry. Everyone knows the wallet hurts the most when standing there at the pump, and you’re basically counting pennies just to get from A to B. But that’s just the way it is, sad but true.
Remember the times during the Clinton administration? Ride around the upper part of Indiana just below Lake Michigan, and you would’ve found some stations offering 95 cents per gallon. That’s literally half a tank for nothing more than five bucks!
Nowadays, though, we’re paying an arm and a leg for a full tank, and many of us aren’t bothering to keep it full either. A quarter tank seems to be the norm now with a very tight budget. More professionals in the workforce are taking the bus instead of driving because of the high gas prices. Some are even using bikes for transportation along with the added health benefit. Carpooling is now becoming more and more of a standard in today’s work society.
Political upheavals in Egypt and Libya are some causes for the short change in gas prices, either up or down. Moreover, it affects how gas stations operate, as convenience becomes more and more of a money maker. Why else do you think clerks require drivers to pay inside rather than at the pump? Nothing says nothing like a wonderful cold-packed ham sandwich and cheese stick along with a Monster to boot. Oh, and the $30 charge for filling up only half the tank.
Here are some tips to battle the sadness of petrol: fill up before 10 AM on Mondays due to the fact that prices circulate around that exact time, and keep in mind that peak prices occur right in July. So in other words, you don’t want to ride around and see one price and have it hit 10 AM and watch it skyrocket about 10 cents! Moreover, try not to drive during that particular month of summer.