“The consumer unrealistically expects the price of gasoline to not even increase with general inflation. Foolishness.”
The government and their media mouthpieces are pretending there is no inflation (so they don’t have to adjust SS, and pay a price politically for the reckless spending and entitlement promises). Consumers are just too ignorant to realize practically EVERYTHING costs more (except the homes they owned as their nest eggs)...
You wonder how they can be so ignorant though don’t you?
In spite of having seen it for nearly six decades I am still amazed at how ignorant so many people can be and at how content they are with it.