It’s a gas
I fail to feel the slightest sympathy for these individuals who are profiled as “victims” of higher gas prices. If you live in the city and refuse public transportation as a viable means of transportation, live in the suburbs and drive an SUV as your primary means of transportation, or just feel like you “have to drive,” as all of these individuals do, then one should suck it up and pay one’s dues. This car culture can’t be had for free, and I think we are in the beginning stages of seeing just how much of a mess we have gotten ourselves into. These statistics (from AAA, no less) certainly point to an increasingly expensive future for car lovers.
What if gas goes up another 50 cents or a dollar a gallon? Let it, I say. Sure, it may put Jane and Joe Suburbs in a pinch, and it may paralyze the transcontinental just-in-time distribution network that all of our favorite generic big-box retailers depend on to make a profit, but it may also act as a hard slap in the face of the collective conscious of the car-obsessed American culture.
