by Evan Mehlenbacher

I just paid over $36 to fill up my gas tank.

Ouch! The expense hurt in my pocketbook.

Not too long ago gas was $1.50 a gallon.

While standing near the fuel pump and watching the digits on the gas meter click upward at mind-numbing rates, I started to criticize how expensive gas has become. What’s going on? I’ve read newspaper articles about the billions and billions of profits piling up in oil company coffers. I thought about conflict in the Mideast, much of it arguably centered on protecting oil supplies. And then I started to sum-up the hundreds of dollars I would spend this year at gas stations and it was a lot! (more…)