Quote Originally Posted by Kaorte View Post
You all are right, no one wants to pay for it. But they SHOULD want to pay for it because they should realize how beneficial it would be. Sigh. Back to my books! lol


As far as gas prices, I don't look at the price anymore. If its under $70 to fill up my tank I am happy. I usually go 2 weeks between fill-ups.
It would be nice if more people wanted to pay for it, but unfortunately, right now, with the economy what it is, a lot of people just can't afford it. Some areas are worse than others. In my household, I have a job, but my husband is off work. We just make it by each pay check (going to be a little easier now that we refinanced the house and will have lowered the house payment by almost $200...). My husband has been applying to job after job, and been getting met with one disappointment after another. ("Disqualified", "over-qualified", "not enough chemistry", blah blah blah.) My neighbor in front of me has been out of work for 3 or 4 years, lives on unemployment, can't find work. Neighbor on one side of me is retired, lives on a fixed income from social security. One neighbor on the other side of me also lives on social security. Other neighbors either don't have jobs or are working on minimum wage. Still other neighbors are unemployed. I have family members who are unemployed as well. Others who are living on fixed income of social security. It's really tough right now.

Meanwhile... I watch developers try to cram in more houses no one can afford, more warehouses that will sit empty and create a blight on the landscape, create more traffic and pollution with these projects, destroy more wildlife areas and drive out what remaining migratory birds we have... And line their pockets while doing so (or in some cases, run out of money before the project is finished and have half-finished houses sit empty and uncompleted for years, only to become overgrown with weeds and vandalized by bored teenagers, druggies, transients, and gang bangers). It's awful.

And about looking at prices... I only look as much as I need to find the lowest price gas on my commute, and then I close my eyes while filling up. I don't want to know what I have to spend... only what work reimburses me for.