Week 1
- Price – $3.40
- Reaction – Yikes! The End of the World! Vote everyone out of office!
Week 3
- Price – $3.35
- Reaction – Whew! Breathing Room! We can take it a bit easy and start driving again.
Week 5
- Price – $3.50
- Reaction – Yikes! The End of the World! Storm the oil company offices!
Week 8
- Price – $3.45
- Reaction – Whew! Breathing Room! We can take it a bit easy and start driving again.
Week 11
- Price – $3.70
- Reaction – Yikes! The End of the World! Drill! Drill! Drill!
Week 14
- Price – $3.60
- Reaction – Whew! Breathing Room! We can take it a bit easy and start driving again. Things aren’t so bad after all.
…and this, dear readers, is how we get stuck with rising prices.
(Yeah, I know it’s not that simple.)