Pump Jumping [metaquoting myself]

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The hypersensitivity of pump prices to raw material cost fluctuation is out of all scale with reality because of the high visibility and attention given to it. You don't hear the same attention being paid, day in and day out, to milk prices, or electricity, or anything else... just oil.

I wonder how much we pay for oil's "fame"?

[something I said in a discussion going on in razorwolfe's journal]

Comments

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No, not poor, but a minimal portion of each paycheck is left-over after expenses are paid.

Let's say I suddenly have to pay a hundred bucks for a tank of gas. I think I could still commute, but that would eat up a substantial portion (if not all, and possibly more than) of the leftover paycheck funds, severely curtailing any non-essential expenditures (eating out, travel, etc).

Public transportation wouldn't get me anywhere close to where I work. Changing jobs would be the only solution to that.

If I move somewhere amenable to saving myself money, Kim is stuck with the hefty fuel bill, and she makes quite a bit less than i do (or will, in two weeks).