It cost me $41.82 to fill my gas tank today. I haven’t seen a $40+ gas fill up since the gas crisis of ’08. But I guess I should be fortunate that I didn’t have to covertly go out at midnight to get the fuel, so I didn’t have to wait in any egregious lines. But still, in a time when I’m literally scraping by, feeling the noose tightening at all times, and struggling to make ends meet, such a sight is kind of mortifying.