The price of tea in China

I don't want to come off sounding like an old grandpa here, but when I first got my car (eight years ago this Halloween), gas cost 84 cents a gallon. Let me repeat that. In 2000, gas cost 84 cents a gallon. I could fill up my Saturn for under $10. Wai. And I know that in the broad scheme of things, when there are starving people in the world and people much MUCH worse off than we are, how much we have to pay for gas is a pretty pathetic complaint. Especially since I fundamentally believe that we shouldn't be so dependent on oil and it might be good for us to have to pay $4, $5, or $6 a gallon if it meant that we were then forced to find a different way, a better way, a cleaner way. But what's the point of having a blog if you can't complain once in a while? So here goes: DAMN the price of gas is high!