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Gas Prices

Beth Fitzgerald, a junk food and photography lover from Gulfport, Mississippi, documented prices at a local gas station earlier this month (via Ann Raber):

[bfitz85 / Flickr]

The Pete from Los Angeles, California, sold his car about five years ago but is also documenting fuel prices in his hometown. He writes, in reaction to oil hitting $117 a barrel recently, about what he sees as the demise of America’s middle class (again, via Ann Raber):

Thanks to the fact that everything needs oil to function (machines AND the industries powered by them) it makes perfect sense that prices for all things are going up. We can expect this trend to continue until the price of oil drops or multiple oil alternatives get introduced and used on a wide scale.

My main question now is: Can we stop bothering with the war on terror now that high prices on everything are a bigger threat to us, PLEASE??

I’m seeing these absurd prices on everything as an attempt (intentional or not) to wipe out the middle class.

These prices have GOT to turn around or we ALL need to be making more money. In fact, both probably need to happen.

If neither does, we’re going to see two classes in America–the Haves and the Have-nots.

No need to spell out how big an issue this has become in the election.