Right, plus I doubt many Europeans drive a $50k 4ton 16ft long Cummins diesel-powered pick-up truck that gets 17MPG, if you're lucky. It's currently $100 to fill-up...and I need to at least once a week for work, more so if I have personal usage. When I bought the d*mn thing a little over a year ago, #2 Diesel was $1.41 (it stayed that way for more than 6mos!), now it's more than double with no end in sight. My raise this year was 2.8%!!! While I still have a job, that's little consolation to a middle-class civil-servant majority taxpayer (40% rate!) in an economy dependent on low fuel prices. GM, Ford, and DC are struggling to give away the large, fuel inefficient vehicles that are their lifeline. The ridiculous rise in fuel costs will, in turn, affect the price of everything. H*ll, I would never have saddled myself with 48mos. worth of payments had I known fuel cost was going to double or triple. The big three stay in business, and only sell large vehicles, because of the cheap (relative to the world) US fuel prices. Now that's in the toilet as well.
(Message edited by kmh364 on September 02, 2005)
