I just feel I should point something out here for those of you where are going on about inflationary recession (true), and big cars (true), and other varying degrees of pop culture rudeness (All true). While it may be "in" to bitch and whine about gas prices the people who have a car as status symbol, and the people who are whining because they can't fill their Hummer, and even more in to bitch about people who are bitching, they aren't the people being hardest hit by this. So yes, please do pontificate in your little happy tower in whatever ridiculously smaller country you're in where the government has evolved to a point where it functions with something resembling order. Those of us blue collar and working class families who can't get by because we can't get to work, or to college, or daresay go to the hospital because while this gas hike goes on our wages are neither increasing nor are our other tangible bills in the form of rent, electricity, and food are decreasing will just have to continue to suffer in silence. I'm glad its so very easy to point fingers and make broad generalizations about a complicated problem from perfect safety and anonymity, I wish I had that kind of luxury.