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A lot of folks don’t really pay attention to gas prices,...

I don't feel too bad when I fill up the Honda, but when I pull the truck up and fill it, I have to gasp for air. It costs the price of a week's worth of groceries to fill that thing now.

Luckily I don’t have a large tank to fill, just a Sentra and a Tocoma. Sometimes it can still shock me, last time I upgraded vehicles to my current Sentra the tank size increased by 4 gallons and in the time between the last fill-up of the old car and the first fill-up of the new was the start of the 2006 spike, that first tank was a “holy crap”. Since the price doesn’t effect my need (if the tank is empty the tank is empty, there’s no waiting for a sale) I think I actually trained myself not to pay attention.

It costs the price of a week's worth of groceries to fill that thing now.

Not the way groceries are going up, too. Fuel costs affect agricultural commodity prices across the board.

I am in the military stationed in Bahrain. There is more oil than they know what to do with over here (in the gulf coast region). The Bahrain Dinar (BD) is pegged to the $ at $2.67 to the BD. We pay about 80 fils per liter of 87 octane gas (1000 fils per BD). That amounts to $.80 per gallon of gas. The people of Bahrain complain about the gas price because apparently it is way cheaper accross the causeway in Saudi. I had my Suburban back in the states when gas was $3.80 a gallon in 2008 and I cried every time I had to fill it. Now it costs me a little over $15 to fill my Chevy Suburban up over here. Guess who is covering the cost of cheap gas over here? You guys are! Money from the Western World is being transferred over here through the ridiculous prices Americans pay for fuel. These are the laziest people I have ever met in my life but they are rich as hell because of American consumers paying a fortune for fuel. We need to drill at home.