He let his voice trail off and said: "God bless you."
The effects of water and ice, too, are likely to be intermittent, and to trail off at least a bit as the reserves on top of the mountain are used up.
Typically, sales trail off as consumers wait for the new model to launch, but that hasn't happened as gas prices continued to soar beyond $4 a gallon and threaten to reach $5 a gallon this summer.
