Rising Gas Prices Cutting into Spending, Survey Finds

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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/06/gas_price_poll.html

More than half of Americans are driving less and cutting back on household spending because of rising gasoline prices according to a new poll by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.

By a wide margin, people responding to the poll view rising gasoline prices as a serious problem and the blame big oil companies.

As a result of gas prices, 56 percent of people polled say they have cut back significantly on how much they drive.

Gas prices are affecting low-income Americans the most with 67 percent of those making less than $30,000 driving less while only 34 percent with annual household income of more than $100,000 report less driving.

[Erika]

1. Duh, W has told us to lower our standard of living and stuff it

He has no use or identity with average workers and he's telling us to stuff it.

He and the GOP hold utter contempt for the working class. We've lost our country.

[undergroundpanther]

2. Making us poorer

makes us more willing to accept exploitation to survive.
People who cannot survive will be more willing to accept crap pay..look at mexicans coming over here to pick fruit for rich corporate pigs who sell it to us..,the immigrants are desperate,willing to risk quite a bit to survive.

And the rethug leaders know this and that is why they shred the social safety net. They want slave labor because they believe in divine order us on the bottom willing to do any thing for crums from above,those on top will hoard it all to keep us beholden to them.