For the first time since the spring of 2005, the average price of gasoline dropped below two dollars, leading to a spike in the number of drop-top joyriders over the weekend. Reports of drivers flooring it on the highway and idling outside the grocery store inundated nightly news programming, and national suicide-by-asphyxiation rates also hit record highs as the method reemerged as the cheapest available alternative to high-priced prescription drug overdoses.
Dropping over 30 cents in two weeks, the significant decline in prices at the pump is attributed to a crash on the price of crude oil worldwide. Lundberg Survey officials suggest that the price well is a clear component of the current economic crisis. All is not lost for big oil companies, however; Trilby Lundberg, editor of the survey, said that “the end of this price crash is either here or near.” So, if you’re one of those bomb shelter stockpile people, now might be the time to cash in those chips and go on a petroleum shopping spree. You just never know when we’ll be shelling out four bucks a gallon to fuel up for our next drag race again.
Buddy Up