Photo Funny

Okay, help me figure this out.  These pictures were taken within about a minute of each other.  South of Market:

North of Market, catty-corner from the first one:

More than half a dollar's difference per gallon, same day, same street.  I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before.

P.S.  A sharp-eyed reader from the East Coast pointed out what I should have spotted: the sign at the bottom of the first picture, which explains $3.75 as the cash price.  The credit-card price is $4.33, almost as much as the station across the street.  If I had to drive in San Francisco, I'd be sure to have cash when I needed to fuel up.

Passing Gas

One of my right-wing acquaintances (let's call her RWA3, to distinguish her from RWA1 and RWA2) passed this along ("shared" it, if you like) on Facebook today.  The source she'd got it from captioned it "'Like' if you think gas should still be this price!"

Why sure!  And the minimum wage should still be $1.60 an hour.  To say nothing of the fact that people of the age RWA3 and I share were dismayed when gasoline rose to the obscene price of 79.9 cents a gallon.  In those days, though, the minimum wage was $4.25, which was ruining American business.