Two Below

Why is it that when we talk about temperature we say it is two below and when we talk about gas prices we say it is below $2,00.

Well both things happened in confluence this week. We have gas prices reach the mythical $1.99 per gallon and we flew right by two below zero (farenheit) in the weather department as well.

I just thought I would document this for posterity as we haven't seen gas prices this low for quite a few years. We have three young drivers in our house hold and they have never seen prices this low. Using my HyVee fuel saver card I actually paid less that $1.50 per gallon last week. Sounds amazing but...

When I was in high school and starting to drive in the 70's the typical price was a whopping