Gassing it up

I don’t know about the rest of you, but it has been the end of October since I’ve pulled up to a gasoline pump without glancing at the price-per-gallon displayed on the pump and saying “Ouch!”

Believe it or not, it has been that long since gasoline has been available at less than $2.80 a gallon, according to AAA’s statewide average for Oklahoma.

On Halloween, it jumped above that amount and never looked back since.

So far this month, the average price for a gallon of gas in the Sooner State has hovered near $2.90.

And especially this week, it hasn’t seemed to move much at all.

There probably are lots of reasons why the price stays high — the economy taking a beating, the roller coaster Stock Market, world tensions, among others — but we aren’t that far away from setting new record prices.

Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen anytime soon.

Jack Money

Business Writer, The Oklahoman

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