Gas Prices
Yesterday I went out and photographed something that’s been sitting in plain sight for a while now, gas prices.
Not one station. Twenty-one of them.
Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Thousand Palms. Different brands, different corners, different neighborhoods. Same story, just moving a few cents up or down depending on where you stop.
Some are still in the mid-$5 range. Others are well into the $6 range. Diesel is pushing even higher.
There’s nothing staged about any of this. Just pulling over, stepping out, and recording what’s there. The signs don’t need interpretation. They’re already doing that on their own.
What struck me wasn’t just the numbers, it’s how normal they’ve started to feel. Prices that would have been shocking not that long ago now just sit there, backlit in red and green, part of the landscape.
Palm trees, clear skies, desert heat, and gas pushing past six dollars a gallon.
This is one day, one pass through my local area. A snapshot. And if things keep moving the way they have been, it’s probably not the top.
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