>Hi, Penny, > >I know that our high prices in CA are largely due to special >formulations to reduce smog, and that a significant portion of the >price per gallon also goes to maintain our highways by way of taxes, >but.......When we drove home from choir practice last night, I saw >prices for regular unleaded at $2.17 all overr West L.A., which we >drive through to get home to the Valley. > >Ron I saw on the news the other night that gas prices had topped $3/gallon somewhere in California. :0 We have our weekly grocery/gas/miscellaneous budget lumped together and I have been having less each week recently for miscellaneous (the first to get cut, since misc. for us means eating out, getting a pizza delivered if no one feels like cooking, etc.) - I guess I'm going to have to pull some money from somewhere else to allow for the gas increase. billie -- billie hinton "A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu