Off the I-15

Working in the news business, you just have to resign yourself to the fact that sometimes you will be wrong. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a story predicting that regular unleaded gas in Barstow would hit $5 a gallon in the near future.

I don’t want the average unleaded gas price to hit $5. I drive a car, too, after all. But ever since the story ran, I have been driving by the 76 station on East Main Street daily, staring at the sign that has stubbornly remained at $4.99 a gallon ever since I predicted it would hit that fateful $5 mark.  In fact, I don’t think a single gas station in town has raised its prices since the gas-prices story ran. It’s as if every station in town decided to get together and make sure the paper would be wrong on this one.

On the other hand, I’m not really sorry to be wrong on this one.