Yup. And why we’re all about being self sufficient.
I drive 100 miles a day on my round trip commute. With my 30 mpg vehicle and roughly 21 work days a month, that works out to 70 gallons of gas. At $3.00 a gallon, that’s $210 a month. At $4 it’s $280 a month. At $5 it’s $350 a month. That is actually very easy for us to absorb. I can telecommute one day a week, maybe. Work 4/10’s, etc.
But the impact on the price of everything else I buy can’t be ignored - and it is real. However, when we grow our own chickens and eggs, our own livestock and garden, and use wood from our own property to heat our home all of those things stay pretty much stable in price. Which is what we expect to happen this year.
It’s all bad. Should there be shortages, it will be worse.
Energy costs are their way of quietly and efficiently finishing off the middle class. Or as Marx calls us, the petit bourgeois. He makes it very clear that as long as the petit bourgeois exists, we will defend the capitalists and the workers’ revolution will not happen.
By raising and lowering energy costs, they can manipuulate us to continue to work hard, make money, and then discover that there is nothing left after we meet our living expenses. Eventually, we are supposed to turn on our “bourgeois oppresors” and join the workers’ revolt. Oddly enough, in modern American communism, the so-called workers are actually non-workers.
But, after the “glorious revolution”, those non-workers will quickly become useless eaters. Their days of living off the fat of real workers is fast coming to a close and if you think that our lives are going to suck under Obamunism, know that theirs will be much worse.
Why point all this out? Because if we don’t make some drastic changes now, they will win without firing a shot. Changes in our lifestyles, changes in the way we do business, changes in government, and changes in our attitude that Leftists are just another political philosophy.