“THE PRICE OF GASOLINE”

Included herein is some noteworthy info about the price of gasoline. But first . . . a bit of trivia to ponder.

Earth, upon which we all reside, is reportedly an about 4.5 billion years old planet, some 7,926 miles in diameter, rotating on its axis at a mere 1,040 miles per hour, all while orbiting the Sun (located approximately 93 million miles away) at about 67,000 miles per hour.

Yes, the “Sun” . . . one of about 100 billion stars or so located within an about 10 billion years old “galaxy” named the Milky Way (a galaxy of course being a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity). With our “Milky Way” being spiral shaped galaxy so huge that light traveling at about 186,000 miles per second (or about 6 trillion miles per year) would take at least 100,000 years to cross its diameter.

While our “Milky Way” . . . traveling through space at about 1.34 million miles per hour . . . is in turn reportedly just one of at least hundreds of billions (possibly up to trillions) of galaxies, each with billions of stars, existing in the observable “universe” (with the universe defined as “all existing matter”).

And then there’s “the closest” major neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way . . . the Andromeda galaxy, roughly 1.5 to 2 times larger than our Milky Way, with a diameter of about 220,000 light years. And although located roughly 2.5 million light‑years away . . . still observable to the naked eye even under moderately dark skies . . . considered one of the most distant objects observable without optical aid . . . and notable for its bright blue tinge, caused by pockets of its hot young stars burning bright blue.

Oh, yes, the same Andromeda Galaxy various astronomers have for years predicted may collide with our Milky Way Galaxy in about 4.5 billion years or so . . . in an event already dubbed the Andromeda-Milky Way collision.

And as we put above trivia aside for the moment and instead pursue a brief and general review of the “Price of Gasoline,” we find that . . . U.S. gasoline prices have ranged from under $1 per gallon in the 1990s to over $5 per gallon in 2022, with recent averages around $4.47 per gallon in late 2026.

Of course rather than the “Price of Gasoline,” some may instead choose to anguish over the prospects of an “Andromeda-Milky Way collision” . . . while still others among us entertain concerns about other things, such as, but not limited to, the prospects of a crazed Iranian leadership that has for over 47 years chanted death to America one day gaining access to nuclear weapons; and supporters of Communism occupying positions of power and influence within U.S. government; etc.

Seems it likely all comes down to a matter of personal perspective. 

                                                                   —William James Moore