This sucks. Gas prices are low and I’m retired and can’t afford to go anywhere.
Not so. What the regime has orchestrated is actually quite cunning in the evil sense of that word. The American-hating muzzie, bending to the will of his OPEC overlords, has crashed the oil prices while maintaining pain at the pump. Here in Texas, per gallon prices still hover around $2.29! So the consumer loses while the stakeholder in energy companies suffers as well.
During the good years of true prosperity when Newt Gingrich was in charge, I was paying just 78 cents a gallon. And yet the domestic oil companies were doing well. I know as a shareholder in XOM and thus I'm getting whipsawed by hussein both when filling up at the pump and with reduced earnings.
I’m also retired. I could afford to go anywhere. But I don’t want to. I’ve been everywhere I want to go, and since I retired, I no longer need vacations.
Travel is just a hassle. I did just spend a week away from home with my sons for Thanksgiving, but only because they threatened to invade my house if I did not. Visiting is much easier than hosting.