Got Gas?

It's nothing original to talk about gas prices - everyone is complaining about it as much as they complain about the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter!

I used to say that as long as a gallon of gas was cheaper than a gallon of milk, I'd be grateful that my car doesn't run on milk. Well, it's been quite a while since I've been able to find gas for cheaper than I can find milk! Think I could find a car that runs on milk?

And another thing, why oh why do they put the fractions on the gas prices??? I don't get it. First of all, it's always 9/10 of a cent. Has the U.S. Treasury EVER offered fractions of cents, ha'pennies, if you will? Secondly, have you ever seen gas for 2.98 and 8/10 of a cent? Or 7/10 of a cent?

I think one of these days, I'm gonna ask for my fraction of a cent back in change. Better yet, I'm going to calculate how many gallons of gas I've purchased in my life, and how many tenths of cents I am entitled to by the petroleum companies!

Here's how I figure it:
12 gallons of gas per visit = 1.2 cents
1.2 cents X approx. 4 times a month = 4.8 cents
4.8 cents X 12 months a year = 57.6 cents
57.6 cents X 14 years of driving = 806.4 cents

That's $8.064 those bastards have stolen from me! Just think, I've only been driving for 13 years, what about someone who has been driving for 25 years? Or someone who drives a whole lot mor than I do? And multiply that amount by thousands and thousands of cars and drivers, and that's a nice profit!

How do they get to do that and keep getting away with it? If I had a lemonade stand and started selling lemonade for 49 and 2/3 cents, wouldn't people want to know why? Wouldn't they throw a fit? And if I said, "Well, since we don't have fractions of cents, we'll just round it up and you can give me 50 cents."

In other words, it doesn't make a fraction of sense!