We love our big red car. We have fondly nicknamed it "The Beast" and we have had so many fun adventures in this car. It has all sorts of interesting quirks that come with a car that is 14 years old and has over 250,000 miles on it. One of these quirks happens to be the gas gauge. When The Beast is full of gas, the needle on the gauge stays past the full mark for a very long time. Then, it suddenly begins to drop. Once it hits the half tank mark, it bounces between half and empty depending on your speed and terrain. You never know for sure how much gas there really is in the tank and there is no warning when you are close to being out of gas, it just dies ... Then you pray you can stop safely somewhere without crashing due to the lack of power steering! Needless to say, we've learned to watch it carefully and when the bouncing stays closer to the empty side of the gauge, we know it's time to fill it up.We don't actually drive The Beast much. It mostly just sits in the driveway or garage waiting for Sunday or a family outting. With the price of gas being so high, driving it as little as possible was a necessity. $150 for a tank of gas is just too much.
Last Saturday, we had to fill The Beast. The needle had been bouncing around the gas gauge for several days and we didn't want to run out of gas going to or from church. Gas prices have gone down, but I wasn't expecting this:
$74.82 to fill The Beast!?! I know gas prices are even lower in other parts of the country, but this is the first time we have paid less than $100 to fill this car with gas in a couple of years!
