Fuel Hardy

Drivers set to pay any price for gas

WASHINGTON – Everywhere thirsty cars, appalled drivers. The remarkably precise signs displaying prices change daily. New records have been set nearly every day for the last two weeks in the Washington area, the first time that’s ever happened.
…Unlike the older cities of Europe, American cities and suburbs matured under the influence of the automobile.

“Our roads are the arteries of commerce, and whether we like it or not, gasoline is the blood that keeps those arteries flowing,” Anderson says.

“This country is so oriented around being able to get up and go and travel where you want to travel,” says Wendell Holloway, a retired lobbyist for Ford Motor who was gassing up his Mercury Mountaineer at a Freestate Gas in Rockville the other day.

Washington Post