Gas Prices

I'm not a usually the type of person who rants and raves but the recent trend in gas prices has really started my blood boiling. Before my husband started his new logistics business I never really took into consideration how gas prices truly affect everything. Trucks are not moving anywhere due to the over inflated prices because they are unable to make any money from the shippers. One shipper stated that it is unusually slow in the plant industry due to the fact that consumers do not have extra cash flow. Why do they not have extra cash flow? HMMMMM maybe because we live in a country in which it is almost a necessity to drive cars that require gasoline. Extra cash flow goes to pay for gasoline needed to take us to our jobs....

One thing is reliant on another...and when that one thing in the cycle gets out of wack then everything just falls around it.... My mother in-law in all of her infinite hillbilly wisdom has been around the world and is very knowledgable about politics offered this advice in one of our afternoon coffee talks.... Americans should grow some big balls and decide that they are as a whole unit are not going to buy gas for a week or two. Stock up on everything that they need and just sit tight....Break the vicious cycle and create another vicious cycle for the oil companies and the government. Oil companies won't have all those billions of dollars in revenue which means a reduction in the amount that they are paying in taxes to the government.....She said the French never hesitate to shut the country down when they aren't happy with the government or big business. Sounds as if we could take a lesson from the French!

Gas prices have made a negative impact on many families including my own. My children have learned about cutting back and the affect of lean times. No moving freight means no money from my husband's business. We all know that teachers in the south do not make money and the fact that I live in a right to work state where my daily job responsibilities are underpaid and anything extra work done does not earn me the right to extra monetary rewards.

Will the vicious cycle be broken or will it get worse? I hope that things will improve but there is still much darkness in the tunnel at this point.