Maybe we are all just getting too used to gasoline prices soaring toward $3 a gallon every spring. At least I guess so, judging by the stories I haven't seen in the paper.

Where I live, regular gas was $2.68 a gallon last Wednesday. Friday, it had jumped to $2.75. By Sunday, when I filled up trying to beat the next increase, it had gone to $2.83. And tonight on my way home from work, it was up to $2.85.

But no one seems to care very much. I haven't heard a lot of talk about it. When it gets mentioned on the teevee, they just dryly report the latest leap in prices and let it go at that...not even an attempt to explain why. 

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