what about people like me who drive about 500+ miles a week because they live far from where they work as well as it is costing 20 dollars more on a tank of gas because we have larger tanks.... right now, I fill up about once every 4 days.... each fill up costs me in the ball park of 80 dollars... do the math... over the course of the month, I pay more to keep my car running than I do for my mortgage payment. (car payment + ins + gas) I do not drive a truck, I drive a 4 cyl Altima that is rated at 30+ highway miles a gallon.
Also you are not seeing the bigger picture... for you, it might only be 15 dollars a week more in gas, but because of raising gas prices, now the prices of food and goods are going up as well because as we all know, the extra cost always gets put down to the consumer.... so that gallon of milk that we were paying 99 cents for a few years ago is now pushing 3 dollars a gallon. If you think that gas prices are only effecting your weekly fillup than you are being quite ignorant.