[tobyhill]

One word says it all,"oil". The economy is excellent but most people don't analyze the inside numbers but will analyze the gas prices on their way to work and associate the rise in price with a tax. Unfortunately the party in charge usually takes the brunt from the pocketbook voters.

[chief_bigfoot]

"One word says it all,"oil"."

Aye. I can't heat my house with my mutual funds. Well, maybe for a couple minutes, but the missus gets hacked off about all the ashes form burning paper inside. It'll be more than 1/3 that think the economy is sour in about a month and a half when people start calling to get their fuel oil tanks filled and the natural gas price becomes more of an immediate concern. I have a call out to the local HVAC company to for an estimate to install an electric furnace asap. There's no way that I can swing filling a 1000 gallon fuel oil tank at $2.40/gal. Nuh-uh, no way.