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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.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Liberals don't seem annoyed this time around.
It's all just a natural cycle this time around - isn't that convenient.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Here's an inflation-corrected graph of the price of a gallon of gas since 1918;
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/O...
Gas is made from oil.
Oil is a finite commodity.
To expect it NOT to increase in price is patently absurd, and demonstrates a lack of understanding on your part of the simplest influences of "supply & demand"...
Would you be willing to go to work next week for the equivalent of 1918 wages for whatever it is you do?
Source(s): "no other means of getting around"? I had no idea that the use of buses, bicycles, walking and car-pooling were all restricted in the Mormon faith! Perhaps it's time you explained to your husband that he needs to earn a little more, or perhaps send you and some of your sister-wives out to find work! - DustndwindLv 68 years ago
Would you agree, that in every country there is just so much money, and if this taken by a few who will not release it back into the work stream they are wrong, because you will not have milk if you kill the cow.
Source(s): Screw the oil companies, the government needs to take control of all oil production and sales, and take what money they have took from Americans and apply it to the National Debt.
