Cost of gasoline rage...

[JonsZX2SR]

Story about people getting more and more angry about the cost of filling up... Gasoline rage (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25935273/).

Does anyone have stories about responses to high fuel prices ?? One thing I have seen in Connecticut are more and more panhandlers waiting at convenience stores telling stories about needing $5 or $10 to put gas in their car so they can get home, go to work, etc.

There used to be people who would hang around automated teller machines panhandling. With the increase of teller machines in convenience stores that sell gas, people have started panhandling there. In some cases, I'm not sure if they have cars, or whether 3 or 4 panhandlers came in the same car. Sometimes there are a few kids acting tough trying to shake people down for gas money.

[xtremecaraudio]

Wow, some of those are pretty extreme. I haven't seen really all that much more than people griping about the price. I personally wouldn't mind having them lower, but realize that bitching every 2 minutes about it doesn't help anything. We're still half the price of Europe and other places so I think that itself is a victory.
The only people that really irritate me are the ones with a truck or something that gets 10 mpg, they drive to work 30 miles (alone, no carpooling), go 10-15 mph over the speed limit and sit and bitch about how it costs 100 to fill their tank. That's just ludicrous, there are so many that that people could change (such as driving the speed limit) that would reduce the amount of gas they use. I'm not complaining though, I'm just glad I get 35 mpg. :)

[zxtwou2]

lol...how bout everyone take a little personal responsibility and admit they've made poor budgeting/choice of car/commute distance decisions. oh, because it's never their fault...it's because they weren't expecting the price of a non-renewable resource...from a league of foreign countries that for the most part hate us...to go up. imagine if gasoline had increased in price at the same rate of inflation as every other product on the shelves (technology aside). then they'd be paying 4 bucks a gallon still...but they wouldn't be used to an underinflated price.