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Gas Gauge: Settling Into the 'Stale Peace' of $3.89 a Gallon
Prices are higher following the Fourth of July, but stable. How long will it last?
In Rabbit Redux, John Updike's Rabbit is on the lookout for "a new combination (that) might break it open, this stale peace."
I don't know why I've remembered that line over the two decades since I read the book, but I think it applies to how I feel about gas prices in Geneva this week.
They're all stuck on $3.89 a gallon, except for that renegade West Side Citgo at $3.90. And I don't know which way they're going next. This week's price is up 9 cents from eight days earlier, but the prices had been dropping steadily prior to then.
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Finally I was going to take the sound off the attached video, but I thought the obscure book-on-CD reference and the tick-tock metronome of the blinker appropriate to the Updike theme.
"A new combination might break it open, this stale peace."
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