Special on Gasoline

By Jim Hagarty
2013

I heard on the radio yesterday that gas in Venezuela is four cents a gallon. A gallon. Four cents. This works out, for all us on the metric system of measurement, to about one cent per litre. I drive a small car. It would cost me about fifty cents to fill it up in Venezuela, if I could figure out how to get it there and back. The last time the government in Venezuela tried to raise the price of gas was in 1989 and there were riots. Hundreds of people died. I can’t think of a point to all this but I thought you might want to know as you fill up your tank with four or five dollar a gallon gas.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.