It all makes me so sad, tho. And our gas is cheap compared to many parts of the country--$3.35 this morning. We live on the edge of Oklahoma, where gas is cheaper (probably because of fewer taxes). It seems the retailers in my little town feel the need to compete with those in NE Oklahoma, so they keep prices at Tulsa rates. Yet, 25 miles to the east, it's sometimes (often) 25 cents higher per gallon. Unfortunately, I have to go into "town" once or twice a week. But I'm working on not doing it so often.

What makes me sad...all the people who are struggling to make ends meet when they HAVE to drive to "town" to go to work. Then all the people who are making payments on 20mpg-or-less vehicles, which they usually drive over the speed limit, and finding they have to put the gas on their credit card to make it to work this week. And pretty soon it accumulates and we have people in full blown financial distress. If they had just started taking their foot off the gas pedal more often, they could have started planning ahead for this. That's just one tiny segment, the one I used to be in years ago, so I identify with them more than the people who are plucking chickens across the creek from me. (Those people are already walking/biking/ride-sharing to work, and living nearby.)

And our president is surprised when a reporter asks about $4 a gallon gas. Not to make this political, but I'm cynical enough to think that the dead silence from our leaders is election-year related...and optimistic enough to think that things will get better immediately after the election, no matter who wins.

Karen