The pump chronicles: $4.89/gallon in Santa Monica

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Most recent first. $4.89 a gallon today at Santa Monica and Lincoln. That’s an increase of 80 cents a gallon, since April 25.

This was All the way back on June 5. I drive by this gas station most Friday mornings.

This was May 30.

This was April 25, $4.09 a gallon. Recapping: Gas at this station has spiked by 19.6% in six weeks. I pulled over and took this picture because, at the time, I thought $4.09 was a really high price for gas.

Why so many pictures and so few words? Because a picture is worth 1,300 words (inflation), and because some media companies now measure journalists’ productivity in column inches produced, and I’m padding my production (That’s an inside-the-building joke).

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