Filling up my 12 year old SUV today in order to drive 34 miles to work. The SUV is paid for, can’t afford to just “buy a more efficient one’ as the president suggests. It costs me $120.00 per week just to drive back and forth to work. Yet, nobody even mentions this in the campaign. There is something really wrong with this. When gas goes up to $8.00 per gallon, I don’t know what I’m going to do.
It’s a suckers game. We will now all re-tool and buy small cars that we hate but get in the 30 MPG range. Having done that, the price will drop again and we will be jealous of the SUV drivers again and the cycle repeats itself. My solution is to have 2 vehicles, one for low prices and one for high prices.