Just in time for the summer travel season, analysts are predicting gas prices in the $3.75 to $4.00 range or possibly even higher. Just like milk prices which currently are higher than gas prices (but not by much), the staples we need in life are growing while our paychecks are not. We went to the grocery store the other day and just bought a few things, bread, milk, hamburger buns, yogurt, hamburger patties, and hamburger meat, and maybe a few other things and we were startled when the cashier said that will be $48.00 dollars please, uh huh for what? Well it now costs the stores more to get the merchandise to the store so they pass that expense on to us.
Let's hope that our politicians can divert their attention away from the campaign trail and fix this. Interest rate cuts are nice, but there needs to be some price controls on things at least for awhile. Offer tax incentives where necessary to keep the prices on necessities at a rate where the average Joe can afford to live on something other than Macaroni and Cheese (which is now not nearly as cheap as it used to be), or Top Ramen (which is still cheap but......). If you stay home don't use any energy because sadly that is going through the roof as well, but that is a blog for another day.
--Contributed (glumly) by Renee who will not be drinking milk or filling up with gas :(
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