My God, how could a once great country get run into the ground so fast.

Honda really hadn't put much a dent in the American car market until Jimmy Carter's gas issues with the Iranian deal. All of a sudden, people started checking out those old school Honda Civics that got 30+ miles a gallon. I suspect that if $4-5 gallon gas comes and stays for a while, high mph vehicles will be in vogue again and fewer pickups and big suv's tooling around. The problem is that we've already sort of burned that "quick fix" because we devalued the USD so much that a 30+ mph car won't gain people on the edge where fuel is a noticeable amount of their take home pay. If gas would go to $6-8 a gallon and stay there, then I think all bets are off for things staying together, some places becoming a lot more volatile than other lotions.

The greedy development goofs here want to put 300 apartment units across the "highway" (only about 50 mph) from our subdivision on the edge of bedroom town. Our subdivision are larger sized lots, about 2-3 houses per acre than what is typically found in "big city" nearby but the land across the road is not zoned single-family residence and the cropland they're converting went straight to "commercial/ multi-family". So, they're going to double the population out here by only adding a fifth of the current developed land. 300+ more cars coming onto the 2-lane "highway" from 2 driveways. Besides just the greater coin for the developers, what I think the city council/county leaders are angling for is to have Uncle Sugar pay some of the eventual widening of the highway to 4-lanes. I can see a deal being cut where reps of Uncle Sugar agree as long as half of those apartment units are used to house Prez Sniffy's line jumpers they flying all over the country. Lots of business leaders in "big city" would love to have more cheap immigrant labor. Swell...

Just paid $4.10 for premium thanks Joe.

Our diesel is up to $ 4.99, none of the ranchers around here can afford fertilizer this year

It is a real hardship on a lot of town people and ag people

Some ride a bike, walk or share rides. I have a truck that gets 15mpg I drive it on average 10,000 a year and use about 666 gal of gas. Given that the difference of $2 a gal vs $4 a gal is $1300 bucks a year. I doubt people are going to be on the street. I have a friend said he is going to by a newer care that gets 28mpg vs 22 mpg gotta laugh and he is going to finance it and pay higher price for insurance and plates. I have some money in energy stocks that pay some dividends and if prices go up I make up that difference. I dont have much sympathy either for woman driving big SUVS alone or taking a kid to school or a couple guys BSing about the price of gas at the station and one of them idling their truck in the parking lot.

elections have consequences...