Reply #18: I read the perfect response to you the other day. [View All]

[BiggJawn]

You're so focused on ONE tree (raising the retail price of gasoline) that you're ignoring the REST of the forest (price increases on everything else)

you're really short-sighted.

You must think food moves to the market by magic levitation or something.

Let me tell ya something, in the past year or so, since gasoline has doubled, I've seen my weekly expense for food, soap, and toilet paper rise from around $35 to 55-65 dollars every week...In that same time frame, my salary has increased 2%

How much more do you think that's gonna go up if gasoline gets to "5, 6, even 7 dollars a gallon"?

YOU may be able to absorb a 100-200-300% increase in essentials like food, water, heat and lights, but some of us can't.

Big fucking lot of difference it's gonna make in shit if I'm not spending money on gasoline, just to have the OTHER expenses of living drive me into destitution...