Just Too Expensive

“$4.55!” Just this morning, the price for unleaded gas was $4.54 and it has already increased by a cent. This is unfortunate news considering the gas light in my car has been flashing at me for the past two days. So forced to get gas, I make a quick detour to Valero before grabbing lunch at Subway. Out of all the gas stations in South Davis, Valero is always the cheapest. I figured this out by scoping all the gas stations while riding the bus to campus. That is if I’m not half asleep at 7:30 in the morning. As I’m paying for my $5 foot long I noticed that there is an extra 50 cent charge if I pay with a credit or debit card. The extra charge seems unnecessary because my credit card is still a form of money. Without even knowing it at times, I deal with the economy in some form everyday. Economy is such a broad term because it encompasses so many other words. For instance, New Keywords associates economy with money, markets, commodities, wealth, industry, labor, enterprise, finance, investment, employment, consumption, production, credit, debt, competition, monopoly, and development. Truthfully, I never really cared about the economy and found little interest in the subject. However, now that the economy has gone down and prices for gas, food, clothes, and other resources have gone up I started to pay more attention. As college students, most of us are just getting by. So we can all agree that we dread the first day of classes knowing that we have to go to the bookstore right after class to buy the expensive books and lab manuals.