Katrina blamed as gas prices soar: "Gasoline prices hit all-time highs yesterday due to damage to oil refineries and pipelines by Hurricane Katrina. At local gas stations like Hess, that meant rising prices that changed throughout the day. A gallon of 87 octane was $2.65 at Hess in the morning, $2.82 by afternoon and $3.09 before dusk."
Perhaps I need to rehabilitate the bicycle, which has been "resting" since the accident last year. This is my worst old-man-gas-price-watching nightmare.