Run, don’t walk, to the nearest gas pump

Texas tea closed up almost $6 a barrel today, thanks to a little of this and a little of that: “geopolitical tensions” between the United States and Russia.

Chuckle.

So, in honor of those geopolitical tensions, I’m starting a little blog contest. The blog reader closest to tomorrow’s 8 a.m price at the pump wins an autographed photo.

Of me.

Please form a single-file line for your predictions …

6 Comments

  1. Andi Atwater
    Posted August 21, 2008 at 4:50 pm | Permalink

    Keep the picture — I look at you every day. But I’m predicting $3.59.

  2. bwilson
    Posted August 21, 2008 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    I’ll play.

    I’ll go $3.63 – and two retailers injured sprinting to their outdoor signs, the long pole and the box of numbers in their clutches.

  3. avtolle
    Posted August 21, 2008 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    I’ll go $3.70, and, no disrespect intended, you may keep the picture.

  4. bwilson
    Posted August 22, 2008 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    HAHAHAHAHAHA.

    We all lose.

    Now, as I drove in this morning I noticed NO movement whatsoever in the price of unleaded.

    This comes a couple of weeks after a $2.50 move on a barrel of oil caused a Usain Bolt-like run out to the pricing boards at every C-store in town.

    The day’s young, but my faith – I can’t come up with a better word this morning – in the reliability of gas pricing has been shaken.

  5. bth
    Posted August 22, 2008 at 10:53 am | Permalink

    Oil down 3 bucks today …

  6. bwilson
    Posted August 22, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    $6.44 at 2:30 Friday.

    What a fool I am for filling up last night.