Whatever Happened to the Gas Tax Holiday?
It wasn’t that long ago that the Presidential candidates were debating the ideas of having a gas tax holiday. Somehow, that has kind of fallen by the wayside. It’s funny though, I saw gas last night on my way home from work at $3.599 per gallon. That’s nearly 40 cents cheaper than just a couple months ago. It’s funny to me how talk has shifted from a tax holiday to help the consumers this summer to off shore drilling to help consumers who knows when. Economics seem to take care of themselves if the politicians argue about it long enough.
Since we got our new car back in December, I’ve been tracking how much we’ve been paying for gas and what kind of mileage we’ve gotten. For the record, we’ve gotten 26.0 miles per gallon total so far, it’s been way up this summer from this winter, even with doing the same kind of driving. Below is a graph of our actual prices paid and the average price we’ve paid in total since purchasing the car.
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Our highest price was $3.959 back on 7/15 (just 3 weeks ago). We haven’t paid less than $3.00 since 3/10. I’ve actually been tempted lately to take a couple of weeks to fill my car up with gas every evening. I’m thinking it would be a good experiment to see just how much money I spent on gas today driving places. Did I get my money’s worth going where I went for that cost? It would be interesting to see.
