>>>My son quit his job last week because of the commute and gas prices. He can't be the only one.>>>
If I quit my job, I'll be back on welfare. If I just up and leave my house (for stupid gas prices?) I'll be paying more in mortgage and won't be able to afford daycare. I get so aggrivated at people on here who seem to think that I live 35-40 miles from my job is the problem. Jeez.
I live 75 miles from work. My $10 / day in gas is fairly trivial in the big picture. As for your suggestions for govt intervention, see my last post #95. If China's growth is cut back (and we accept higher prices for their crap) that will cause much lower oil prices as their use reverses. Of course there are downsides to that as well (instability in China, etc)
I didn't make any statement concerning you. I was talking about my son. We live some 20 miles from his place of work, that's 40 miles a day. The job just wasn't paying him enough to make that worthwhile.
And we can't be the only ones. I am sure a lot of lower paying jobs are losing their workers, because it's just not worth the gas to get there if you have to work a couple of hours just to pay transport.