Rich Galen Recommend this article  According to Reuters,
"Gasoline is now about … about $1.33 less than it was at a
record peak in July."  A dollar thirty-three cheaper?  Wait. I
thought gasoline prices (and the underlying price of a barrel of
oil) was the precursor of housing prices collapsing. People had
to choose between filling the tank of their Humvee or paying
their mortgage and, as the old saying goes, "You can sleep in
your car, but you can't drive your house" a fill-up at the
neighborhood Exxon won out.  Next thing you know Lehman Brothers
is sleeping with the fishes and AIG is cutting back on its
"retreats" from 6 to 5 star resorts.  As long-time readers know,
my main source of transportation is a 1999 Land Rover Discovery
which gets about 15 miles per gallon. It has a 25 gallon tank.
Assuming I waited until the "STOP AT THE NEXT GAS STATION,YOU
IDIOT" light came on (which long experience tells me happens
when there are about four gallons left) on July 14, 2008 (when
premium fuel averaged $4.28 a g