Right. That's the real danger of high gas prices, the change in consumer spending at the pump is relatively trivial. But trivial or not, it is the most visible increase and so gets the most attention.
At the risk of sounding like a liberal, the idea that everyone should go through 1000 plus gallons of gas a year in mostly frivolous personal transportation is a disastrous energy policy that hurts every domestic industry and puts us in the expensive and dangerous position of keeping friendly terms with oil producing thugocracies around the world.
"...mostly frivolous personal transportation..."
At the risk of sounding like a conservative, who decides what is "frivolous?"
Government's job is to protect ones right to make decision (and live with the consequences of those decisions), not judge the decisions.
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