To the old truism that nothing in life is guaranteed but death and taxes, a new certainty has been added in recent years: Grumbling about gasoline prices.

Regular unleaded, which a decade ago averaged $1.11 a gallon — $17.76 to fill a 16-gallon tank — averaged $3.58 a gallon Tuesday in Vancouver — $57.28 for a fill-up. Compare that 223 percent rise in the price of fuel to the 26 percent cumulative pay hike that Clark County workers received over the past decade, and it’s clear that the cost of gasoline is eating into local wallets, or spurring people to change how they get around.