Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can’t register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.
Many of the same pumps can only count up to $99.99 for the total sale, preventing owners of some SUVs, vans, trucks and tractor-trailers to fill their tanks all the way.
I guess the gas pump company didn’t understand the laws of supply and demand as it pertains to a non-renewable fossil fuel. Either that, or they figured we wouldn’t still be powering our cars this way.
It’s amazing that more people aren’t absolutely astonished at how expensive gas became in such a short period of time. It’s four times more expensive than it was ten years ago. It won’t be long before kids think I’m elderly because I was alive when gas was 89 cents.