Rising Gas Prices

I have an hour drive to work everyday.  Since the cost of gas prices has reached this all time high it is costing me at least $90 a week.  I can not afford this and the basic costs of living.  If the government is suposed to be FOR THE PEOPLE, why are they flourishing while we all struggle to make ends meet.  I’m a single 24 year old woman, I make to much for government assistance and I dont get any breaks.  What about us?  How are we suposed to make it like this?

Last years gas/oil profit of $100 billion between top oil companies equates to approx. $350 per person - if using current estimate of total U.S. population of 299,481,936… But we know that the rich aren’t feeling the punch of that $350 like the middle-class and the poor are!  It’s like a punch to the stomach.  Thanks to politics and the current administration.  Crooks should be punished… And they will!

While I think the big oil companies should be subject to a windfall profits tax, I do think high gas prices in the long term are a good thing.  It’s high time we kick the oil habit- that’s why, after all, we’re involved in all these wars in the Middle East. 

Let’s face the music that there’s going to be less oil around but more people wanting it, burning oil causes global warming, and the earlier we switch to something else, the better.  The longer we wait, the fewer choices we’ll have in the future.  Let’s slowly increase taxes on oil, let’s give tax breaks for the poor and middle class for their transportation costs, and let’s invest in a post-oil future.  Railing about high gas prices is only for short term political gain.  Can’t our leaders act like leaders and develop a vision for a time we don’t have to depend on islamofascists to fuel our SUVs?

Oil has been in our culture just a little over 100 years.  It’s now the source of everything, from keeping us warm, lit, to keeping us fed (oil used to make fertilizers, to pump water for irrigation).  It keeps us clothed and transported.  We still have time- let’s act for a post-oil future while we still have choices.

i think all politicians are crooks their all out for self gain or self fame. even though we all need oil it should also be goernment price controlled bush needs yanked out of office, before this country sees another depression, if the whole country is suffering why arent we doing something about it. busch is definately leading us,leading us into a depression, with all the mexicans and india illeagals coming over here stealing our jobs and busch letting companies leave our country and not to mention rising oil prices and the prescription drug problem, you tell me what is this country coming too, all idiotic decisions if you ask me. when is middle class americans going to put their foot down. i know i only have so long on this planet and i dont want to live through a depression.

Yes,the gas price are just a joke. But the person who is laughing is Mr Bush,While we are here struggling to find money around the house or signing up for loans that we know we can not afford just for gas!!,middle class folks are living from paycheck to paycheck when will this end??? Where is the money going???