No Surprise That Gas Prices On The Rise

The summer travel season began with the Memorial Day weekend. Anyone else notice the steadily rising price of gas?

Gas prices have irked me for years. Cheap this season, sky-high the next, yet the same oil is being produced year-round. So this weekend, since I am traveling to NYC via my car, I figured I’d flashback to spring 2008, when gas prices were really out of control. Will see the same heights this year?

Photo by ReneS, courtesy of flickr

On my most recent trips to the gas station I have made it a point to turn away from the pump.  I have no desire to watch the price meter run up to $55 for a tank of low-grade gas. Turning away from the pump has allowed me to look at what other motorists are doing. Much to my chagrin, they are looking back at me!

We trade smiles through what I like to call “the gas face.” It is a somewhat stressed look of displeasure induced by the pumping of expensive gas. I have seen a lot of gas faces and they are not pretty!

This face is somewhat new to me but, the name was actually coined by a rap group called 3rd Bass. Way back in 1989, “The Gas Face” was released. The basic concept behind the song is that anyone who says or does something dumb “gets the gas face.”

So, who is responsible for this face that I have to see once, sometimes twice, a week? Is it the oil companies, oil producing nations, gas station owners, our government (federal and/or local)…or should consumers be blamed for buying gas guzzling SUVs instead of hybrids?

Leave a comment and cast your vote for “Who gets the gas face” now!

The nominees are…
OPEC
The U.S. government
Gas station owners
Oil companies

Find out who will join the list of esteemed past recipients of “The Gas Face” (as awarded by 3rd Bass) such as MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice and Bill O’Reilly. :)

Next time you are at the pump, take a look at your counterparts and if they give you the gas face, don’t take it personal!