Volume 10 , Issue 13

Changes In Perry, OK

"We've had recent temperatures in the 70s and low 80s (85 degrees yesterday) until the wind turned around yesterday (Thursday) afternoon and everything cooled off again. We're expecting a high in the 50s today, and there's a heavy cloud cover. It looks like we may get rain.

Saturday, our gas prices dropped for the Easter weekend to $3.01. 9 and since I assumed they'd go back up on Monday, I filled up Sunday afternoon. I was wrong by one day! They didn't go back up 'til Tuesday when the price went to $3.06.9, and then yesterday (Thursday) at noon, I noticed that they'd jumped again. 10 cents higher this time, to $3.16.9! Remarkably, they'd dropped by 2 cents to $3.14.9 sometime before I passed the same (Conoco-Phillips) station about 7 PM the same day. 'Twill be interesting to see if they remain the same for the weekend.

You can probably remember paying as low as 18 cents per gallon (I can) during price wars, when gas was selling normally for 25 cents back in the '50s. That was before the Democrats in power decided to start raising taxes by promising to use the money to build and improve highways and other roads "with ALL the increased tax money" (and then instead, they placed those funds in the 'general funds' so it could be used for various 'pork' projects). We seem to forget that anytime a government promises to use certain funds to build a project or to 'help' us (or anyone else) that it's OUR money that's being used. They don't have any until we give it to them in the form of taxes or various kinds of fees. Guess who's handing out all these "Stimulus Payments" to improve the economy? YOU ARE (and 'thank you very much!).

Incidentally, when (in 1939) you could buy that 15 cent gasoline, bread was selling for 5 cents a loaf and the average farmer was making about the same price on a bushel of wheat that he's made in some recent years! Now figure out where the rest of the money goes. We forgot to mention that the 15 cent gasoline that you were talking about was pumped into the tank of a car that sold for around $500 or just a little bit more!" -- Roy K.
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