03.07.02008 $4.56 a Gallon Gasoline!

Novelist William Gibson once observed that “the future’s already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Well, the future of post $100/bbl oil has arrived early in the incarnation of $4.56/gallon gasoline at a Shell Station on El Camino Real here on the San Francisco peninsula. Now, given that the price is nearly a dollar more than any of the surrounding gas stations, it was hardly a surprise that the station was devoid of customers, but I wonder how soon it will be that the prices at this maverick station are the unremarkable norm.