I filled up my van with gas yesterday at costco, and even there, where the gas is supposed to cost less than at the regular pumps, I paid $2.60 a gallon.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What is going on here?!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Why are we paying so much at the pump?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 EEK!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I figured that if I get 20 miles to the gallon (hopefully I get a few more on the freeway, but driving around town dropping off and picking up kids, 20 is probably all I get on average), then it costs me about 13 cents to drive a mile.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, my drive home from Costco cost me 78 cents.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Cole asked me to pick him up from school, so as I’m driving, I’m figuring out in my head….it’s a mile and a half to school, times two, so that’s three miles, times that by 13 cents, and this drive is costing me 39 cents.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And then there’s the drive to dance lessons–42 cents; and the drive to choir–another 42 cents.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And don’t even get me started on how many times I drove up to Salt Lake last week–Arrg!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like a taxi driver and I should keep a little jar in the van and make the kids pay me per mile.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, that’s not a bad idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I filled up my van with gas yesterday at costco, and even there, where the gas is supposed to cost less than at the regular pumps, I paid $2.60 a gallon.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What is going on here?!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Why are we paying so much at the pump?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 EEK!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I figured that if I get 20 miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}