OK so gas has hit the $4 mark here in "The Loveliest Village On The Plains," so I felt the need to point out some things that a gallon gas is more than.

First and the most obvious is a pack of cigarettes. While I'm not a smoker, I feel for those who are when it comes to making that tough choice of whether to put the full ten dollars in the tank or opt to get 6 in gas(which will on give you 1 1/2 gallons) and a pack of smokes. I'm just saying, it's more chemicals in cigarettes than in gas, you'd think the cigarettes would be more. (For a moment I was about to get up on my soapbox on the tobacco industry but I'll save that for some other time.)

A six pack... Well not all six packs, but if you're PBR or a Natty Light type of person a gallon of gas cost more than the beer you're driving to the store to buy. FYI... I'm a Michelob Ultra type of a person if someone wants to buy me some beer.

A 12 pack of soda... I can buy a 12 pack of name brand sodas for less that ONE gallon of gas. Heck if you've been to Winn Dixie this week you can get a case of name brand sodas for less than a dollar of gas. WTF?!

A pound of ground beef, 2lbs of split chicken breast, a 2.5 lbs pork roast, a 8 pack of soap, a three pack of "tightie whities" the list goes on and on...

Pretty soon a gallon of gas is going to be more that minimum wage ($5.25/hr). Actually it's already in certain parts of the nation, but that's a subject for an entirely different post. The one on how the oil industry is getting over. But I digress.

So what does all that have to do with me buying a bike? I'm just saying, the price of a gallon of gas is ridiculous. The bad part about it though is it's only going to get higher. That's why I'm going by me a BIKE!