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Originally Posted by Donger
What do you guys think? Do you agree with this number?
"Americans on average say that at $4.38 they would significantly cut back on the amount of driving they do."
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Depends on the American, and that is what concerns me. Simply put, the people who are saying the gas prices are no big deal are the people who can afford to buy the gas without having to give up something else. The folks that are getting hurt are the ones who just make it (or don't always quite make it) from check to check. Twenty gallon gas tank, gas a buck higher than a couple months back, go through a tank a week that's $80 a month.......lots of people can't cover that and have to give up something elsewhere.
I donated some groceries at a local food bank today. There were quite a few people in line to get some help. Most of them looked like working class folks. I wondered how many of them were needing help with food because of gas prices, maybe people who were barely making it before and now coming up a little short.