By next month, if it goes up only $0.07 per week, I will not be able to drive it except for necessities. We will all have to cram into the Escort(which gets almost 40mpg). We have been doing that more and more often. Of course, we'll survive but it is an inconvenience

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), January 24, 2000

Answers

Koskinin said it would be just an inconvenience.

-- Earl (earl.shuholm@worldnet.att.net), January 24, 2000.

not to downplay your extra expense, but in some countries, citizens pay more than $2.10(per liter) for gasoline.

-- Edie Yew (edu@gov.com.mil.org), January 25, 2000.

In some countries they eat cockroaches.

So what was your point?

-- Sluggo (sluggo@your.head), January 25, 2000.

my point was to inspire the poster to examine his extra expense from a global standpoint, rather than in a isolated fashion.

-- Edie Yew (edu@gov.com.mil.org), January 25, 2000.

I thought we were discussing the RISE in prices, among other things, not the fact that some pay more in other countries. I thought we had beat that dead horse already. And notice I said it was an inconvenience, with a workable solution for our family. Get a life!

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), January 25, 2000.

Hey Eddie, I repeat -- what's your point?

(No, whining about "global standpoints" doesn't count.)

-- Sluggo (sluggo@your.head), January 25, 2000.