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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
You all need to stop whining about gas prices.
Seriously you sound lie a bunch of girly men, "gas prices are too high" "we pay too much" "what if it gos higher" blah blah blah.
Gas prices are actually under what they should be according to the average income.
What makes it worse is how much higher is it really? $25 cents? 5 bucks more per fill up on a 12 gallon tank?
Skip the supersized bigmac meal - theres your extra $5 at the pump.
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If you read back, the real price (inflation adjusted) is pretty close to double that of, say, 5 years ago. So that's $12+ per tank.
If you have a guy who drives an older car that gets 15mpg in average city traffic, has to commute to work 30mi (15 there, 15 back) every day, he's going to refill once a week. That means an $50 a month going to gas, and out of his family's pocket purely in just getting to work and back.
To you and me $50/mo may not be much, but to some that's the difference between a proper diet or hunger... and if it goes higher, it's going to bite harder.
That doesn't even take into account the across-the-board increases in cost of food, food preparation (if oil or gas stove, or electric in a gasoline-burning power plant), heat (as above), etc that could yield hundreds of real dollars of difference.
I said a couple years back that people really didn't have a cause to bitch, particularly those here who (ostensibly) are doing better than many. Things have changed.
