Is it annoying to anyone else how much gas prices keep rising on a weekly basis?
We filled up last week at 3.09/gal and this week at 3.27/gal. That's a 5% increase in ONE week. This time last month (at least here where we are in the intermountain west), gas prices were at $2.50/gal (granted, only for about two days). That's a 30% increase in one month. I get prices fluctuating and inflation too, but this is ridiculous.
If you're not in suburban U.S.A., then you don't understand how this affects families who have no other means of getting around.
@SadMitt--you truly are sad. Of course I expect gas prices to rise, just not 30% in four weeks. Hello! That, to me, demonstrates YOUR lack of understanding of the law of supply and demand.
"no other means of getting around"? Yes, there is no public transportation out where I live. I also have five children. Do you really expect me to go grocery shopping with three children in tow (the other two being at school) on a BICYCLE when the nearest grocery store is 2 miles down the road and these three kids aren't old enough to ride their own bikes? I do carpool and the kids do walk to school and piano lessons and cub scouts and baseball practice. At least the kids who are old enough.
You are also completely ignorant of any knowledge of the LDS church. The LDS church does not practice polygamy. And my husband makes a fine living, thank you very much. Do you know anybody else in the United States in the middle class? Have you not kept up-to-date on economics in the
last decade to realize that the middle class is being totally crunched and squeezed? How the prices of everything are steadily rising (and at least 30-50% more than they were even a decade ago) yet salaries are not? If you aren't aware of that, you are a complete idiot.