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Krugman (5.00 / 4) (#15)
by AnninCA on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 05:15:55 PM EST
is right on this one.  It's pandering.

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Totally (5.00 / 1) (#42)
by BDB on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 05:25:34 PM EST
I disagree with her on this one.  

Although that's easy for me to say since I'm one of the urban elite who isn't getting crushed by the rise in gas prices.  If I were a family farmer or a salesman in Montana, I'd probably welcome any relief I could get.

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We gotta eat in the cities, too (5.00 / 2) (#69)
by Cream City on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 05:37:17 PM EST
where food already is pricier -- and the soaring gas prices are sending food prices soaring here, too.

I walk to work, and I could lose a few more pounds.:-)  But my students, many of them with families, are suffering from the food costs.  

And a lot of them look to summer jobs in my state's number-one industry, tourism -- and I'm hearing that those jobs are fewer this year, too, because of the industry's expectation of the hit it will take from the hikes in gas prices.

I wish everyone would move, as I did, to walk to work (and much else; I so love city life for that!).  But they won't, and they're suffering, and so are their children, so I understand a short-term relief program for them.  I want them to be able to come up with tuition -- and fuel money -- to come back in fall and finish school and get better jobs to pay more taxes, too!

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Food is really going up (5.00 / 1) (#82)
by AnninCA on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 05:42:07 PM EST
I eat out a lot, and I've noticed that everything is higher.

Suppose the rice shortage will cause my sushi to go up?  :)

(I confess.  I thought that immediately!)

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Focus on Diesel (none / 0) (#139)
by AlladinsLamp on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 06:23:51 PM EST
I was in a local grocery store looking to buy a 10lb bag of potatoes ($4 at Piggly Wiggly, $5 everywhere else). The produce manager walked by and I asked him why something like potatoes would  spike in price - after all, there's no corn used in growing potatos.

He said the store was having trouble getting deliveries as a lot of truckers were parking their rigs if they couldn't carry a full load.

The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. The American Trucking Association says just a one-penny increase annualized for an entire year costs the trucking industry $391 million a year.

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Yeah and she's left me with egg on my (none / 0) (#124)
by inclusiveheart on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 06:10:23 PM EST
face because I was telling a young voter who is partyless that McCain's gas tax was the perfect example of the Republican-style of governing - offering up appealing marketing "solutions" and trying to pass them off as meaningful strategies that will solve real problems.

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