I remember $4/gal gas. Seeing my pump price go from $2.30 to $3.50 would be unpleasant but it would still feel like the end of a lovely grace period, not the beginning of a crisis.
Shit, it's around $3.80 here in Seattle if you naively go to shell which seems to be highly priced here everywhere. Granted, I always go to safeway and arco where I can get it for 3.10 but for some reason I see tons of people at the expensive ones when you can easily find stations on google maps with their pricing listed for much cheaper.