Gas station owners have a problem: too few 2s

Gas station owners have a problem: too few 2s
By Bush Bernard, The Tennessean

It turns out that when regular gas prices top $2 a gallon, it can be a pain for station owners, too — sometimes there aren't enough twos to go around for their signs.

As average prices for regular unleaded top the $2 mark, there's been a growing demand for the number two from some convenience-store and gas station owners, said Bobby Joslin of Joslin and Son Sign Co. in Nashville.

"The large numbers cost about $150 each, so stores don't keep a large inventory of them around," Joslin said.

There was a significant run on twos last year, when premium prices first crossed the $2-per-gallon threshold, Joslin said. There was a lull when prices dropped, but there's been a surge again as prices for regular unleaded have jumped almost 20 cents a gallon in the past month

We did get a few calls for threes in California," she said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-17-too-few-twos_x.htm

THREES!? Yikes!

Charge by the half-gallon. ;-)

People aren't going to be able to afford gallons in gas hogs. They're going to have to go to litres in econoboxes.

I feel a little sorry for the dummies who bought gas hogs recently as self defense on roads overpopulated with the damned things. They're going to be in a negative cash flow position very quickly, with the outstanding debt on the vehicle being worth much more than they can dump it for.

Looks like we are going to catch up with Europe on the price of gas.