I filled up my tank yesterday–for fifty-three dollars. Absolutely infuriating, I know. Four dollars a gallon is absurd for a gallon of fossil fuels, so much so in fact, that a woman in Kentucky decided not to take the rising charges sitting down. Laying down, maybe but definitely not sitting down.

According to the Associated Press, an Indiana man, Kenneth Nowak, 50, allegedly gave thirty-four year old Angela Eversole a one hundred dollar gas card for certain sexual favors. In the understatement of the year, the chief prosecutor issued a statement saying, “it’s sad when people are selling their bodies for gas. Yes, yes, it is. How much you charging, girl? A little less than two tankfuls of gasoline.

Whatever happened to the good old days when a girl would seduce a man, sleep with him, and ask for cab fare home?