Self-service regular is selling for an average $1.97 a gallon today in the Triangle, and a few places are posting prices below $1.80. (And at one place in Durham today, $1.55!)
It's the first time since March 2005 that we've paid less than $2.
This is good news, but it means different things to different people.
Carolyn Jones, a semi-retired school cafeteria worker, says she can afford now to go back to the grocery store for bread -- to go along with the butter she got a few days earlier ("Relief at the pump is bittersweet").
Albaro Hernandez, who works in a Subway sandwich shop, says he can afford to park his 4-cylinder Ford Focus and start driving around again in his 6-cylinder Chevy Blazer.
Bruce Siceloff reports on traffic and transportation. A News & Observer reporter and editor since 1976, he took over the 
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Sun, 11/23/2008 - 12:07 — phelpsgates"...says he can afford to park his 4-cylinder Ford Focus and start driving around again in his 6-cylinder Chevy Blazer."
How soon we forget!