That's the cheapest price you'll find for regular unleaded gasoline anywhere in the Vail valley. I wouldn't have even noticed it before when I lived in West Vail, took the bus to work and maybe used my car one day a week. But now I live in Avon and I drive almost everyday. My Subaru gets decent mileage, but at 2+ bucks a gallon, it's hard to justify all the driving I have to do.

And now OPEC has agreed to squeeze production. Whether or not they actually manage it is another story, but you can bet that the opportunistic US petroleum companies are going to take this opportunity to gouge us even further. Thank you Exxon, Chevron & Texaco.

So what the hell is really going on? Don't we now own a huge ga station in the Middle East? Don't anyone out there tell me that we invaded Iraq for national security or humanitarian reasons. So we own oil production in Iraq which is now producting more barrels per day than it was was before the invasion and yet gas prices are at a record high. It's insane.