$3.79 a gallon .....

You remember Senator Obama claiming that gas prices would never go above $3 a gallon if he was elected?  Yeah, what a crock of shit.  My wife and I have downgraded from grocery shopping at Walmart to grocery shopping at Dollar General because fuel prices are fucking killing us.  Instead of getting real Pepsi to drink with my dinner, I get a cheap knock off that tastes like flat cola mixed with carpet fresh.    My wife doesn't get to buy real Dove soap to bathe with.  Instead she settles for this cheap shit that makes her skin dry out.  But she can live with that because she can always buy moisturizing cream ...... but not name brand lotion .... we can't afford that, so we buy the generic which makes her go into sneezing fits.  But she can even live with that because a dose of benedryl knocks out the allergy like effects of the other shit.  But we can't afford real benedryl, so she buys generic "allergy relief tabs" which kill the effects of the other shit, but they make her dry at the mouth and sick to her stomach.  But that's OK because some Pepto takes care of the sour stomach and some bottled water the dry mouth feeling.  Except we can't afford real Pepto, so she gets this shit that looks like pink baby shit in a plastic bottle that makes her run to the bathroom every 3 minutes for 72 hours.  And water .... we can't afford good stuff like Avian or anything .... so we buy the cheap shit that is cloudy as a 7 day old glass of piss and smells about the same.

My point is that when gas prices are high, the consumer suffers.  When the consumer suffers, the economy suffers.  Bad news all around.  Anyone in elected office should be primarily focused on lowering gas prices.  When that happens, the economy will begin to bounce back ......... except our economy which is hampered with a million stupid fucking regulations and un-fair taxes that cripple any business.