Monthly Gas Expenditures Just Scary - September 28th, 2007
Dailyfueleconomytip.com ran an interesting story on the 24th summarizing the results of a GasBuddy.com poll on monthly fuel expenditures. Here’s the gist of the thing:
- 6% less than $50
- 20% between $51-$100
- 33% between $101 and $200
- 21% between $210 and $300
- 11% between $301 and $400
- 9% more than $400
Okay, if I was spending more than $400 a month on gasoline you all would be calling the undertaker to come get the body before it started to stink. It’s bad enough that all told 20% are spending more than $300 a month. (Do the math, that’s $3,600 a year.)
The dailyfueleconomytip.com made a grim but accurate prediction that this situation is only going to get worse before it gets better. Environmentally, I’m perfectly happy that there hasn’t been a refinery built in this country in 30 years. Politically, I’m sick unto death of the messes we get ourselves into thanks to our dependence on foreign oil. Optimistically, I pray that data like this gets more and more people on the alternative fuel band wagon, which is where we all need to be.
My personal situation is unique. I live with and care for an elderly relative who is a stroke survivor. I work from home and we live on a tight budget. I do my absolute best to buy no more than $20 of gasoline a month and most months I manage just fine on that. But I don’t have children, I don’t commute, and there are many days I never leave the house — in short I don’t do the every day things most Americans just file under the category of “living my life.”
In my humble opinion, 99.9% of politicians do not get, in a real and substantive way, that middle class Americans are drowning and part of the fluid filling that drowning pool is called “gasoline.”
Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Shorty
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