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ADRIAN, Texas — <\/strong>It’s weird how economic trends can make one look at virtually everything a little differently.<\/p>\n

Often, we long for the old days. Not today when my wife and I noticed a sign on an abandoned gasoline service station on the south side of Interstate 40 in this tiny town just this side of the New Mexico border.<\/p>\n

A Shell gasoline dealership went dark I’m guessing about a year ago. How do I know that?<\/p>\n

The sign for regular unleaded gasoline read “$3.89.” That would be the price per gallon of gasoline.<\/p>\n

Let’s flash back for a moment to the time when gas prices were skyrocketing into the ionosphere — or some layer far above Earth’s surface. You’d see a sign in front of a vacant gasoline station and it would advertise a price of, oh, let’s say $1.89 per gallon of regular unleaded gas. You’d long for the day when prices would return to that level.<\/p>\n

Well, today we received a signal that sent precisely the opposite message. We do not<\/em> want to see prices return to the total posted on that empty Shell station perched on the farthest western edge of the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n

We rolled into Amarillo a little while later and were pleased to see that prices hadn’t spiked too terribly while we were away for a week out West.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we ought to preserve these relics just to remind us what can happen to the price of fossil\u00a0fuel when we get careless with the way we use it.<\/p>\n

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