Dagosa
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- Oct 22, 2012
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Yup….If gas was $35 a gallon, we’d be in bigger trouble than just not affordin* to drive. Besides, gas prices follow wages and earning power….petro stations aren’t stupid. They charge what the market will accept, and it varies. And inflated prices seem to follow the affluent around like puppy dogs.We may actually be in general agreement here w/ our only divergence being w/ what we consider. What I'm seeing is that time frames matter. $35/gal. gasoline would be chaos if it hit us over night. That risk is something I'm seeing as likely as an invasion of attackers from Mars. otoh, if we found ourselves w/ $35/gal. gas a hundred years from how then we could be happy w/ that. I can remember $0.30/gal. in my own lifetime. That's no more than general over all inflation.