My wife and I were trying to remember what the price of gasoline was on the morning of September 11, 2001 before the attacks. I said it was around $1.20 per gallon. She said it was less than a dollar, may 85 cents.

By that evening gasoline shot up to over $2.00 per gallon. I remember being in west Dearborn that evening and stopping in east Dearborn at Ford Road and Greenfield to check out the street scene on the way home. There was a long line of cars on Greenfield waiting to get some gas.

I played dumb and asked a young guy what the line of cars was about. He said something about the attacks and left it at that. 'Yeah,' I thought. 'But no refineries were hit...' I waited a couple of days to buy gasoline figuring the prices would come down; they did by Friday.

But how much was a gal. that morning? I can't remember.