when i was a teen and working, i usually earned around 50cent and hr, my dad made $4-5 an hr and gas was 25cent a gal. today minimum wage is $6something guys in the trades earn $20-30 an hr and gas is $3-4 a gal. nothing really changes but the numbers. another piece of that equation is that nobody walks to the store anymore and very few homes have just one car. we have tv's in every room and have a cable bill to pay, 3 computers, $70 sneakers and 6 bicycles all with flat tires and cant remember the last time the kid rode the bike to the store for milk and bread. lifesyle has changed!!!!! and the fact that most things increase in price a little at a time, whereas fuel seems to stay the same for a long period of time and then BANG we wake up and its jumped a buck, everybody freaks out. but everytime the min. wage go's up, the price of fuel go's up.
i dont like it anymore than anybody else but look at the inflation numbers and you see it aint that far off track. Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford built a car in the early 1900's and then ran that car on the oil they got from hemp, there was a man who in the 70's an electric car that recharged itself with a generater affixed to the wheels, but the powers that be dont want that or anything like that, "they" want us right where we are!!!! be afraid boys and girls, be aware, be informed!!!!!!! we should have had this all worked out by now!!!! we were told in the 70's this day would come, but we stood by and did nothing, no new refineries, no new drilling, no new forms of energy to supply our cities, very few homes with solar anything. we just sit and expect it to all work out. nothing changes but the numbers!!!!! i am still just as broke as my dad was!!!! my bike gets 50mpg, i will do all my joyrideing on her and leave the hauling to the cage. my work truck gets 12mpg and cost 80bucks to fill every week, i have to raise the price of my service, and i still will only make what i was makeing, nothing really changes but the numbers
