The national price for regular unleaded hit another high today, leaving Roadguy to wonder when the cost of gas might exceed the cost of cigarettes on the sign above. (Photo taken Wednesday in Minneapolis.)

Alert reader Karen points us to a contest being held by Mr. Roadshow, the Roadguy equivalent at the San Jose Mercury News. He asked readers to guess the date that gas would hit $4 a gallon in San Jose, and he’d buy the winner a tank of gas. He received more than 2,300 entries — you can read about it here, and you can hear from people who were not amused by the contest here.

I don’t think my employer can afford to give away a tank of gas at this point, but we haven’t had a contest in a while, so pick a date in the comments below and I’ll see if I can’t scrape together $4 for a prize by the time AAA’s average gas price for the Twin Cities area tops four bucks.

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