Gas Prices: blog 12

The gas prices are really starting to put a dent in my pocket. At three dollars and eighty cents a gallon it is costing me around fifteen dollars every time I drive up to Lafayette. I am so relieved that school is almost out for the summer, and I don't have to drive up to Lafayette five days a week. But what about next school year? Who knows I may not even be able to afford to drive to school anymore, and I'm sure I'm not alone on that matter. People are trying to better them selves by going to school and it's just getting harder to do. How is anyone supposed to live when we are paying four dollars a gallon?
I saw on the news a month or so ago that oil companies are making billions of dollars in profits. How can our government let this go on? The gas prices and increasing rates of food, etc are dragging every one into a huge hole that we one day aren’t going to be able to get out of. Minimum wage is like six dollars or somewhere around there and the people that are making this kind of money are having to spend pretty close to an hours work pay for a gallon of gas. This is ridiculous!
Us working people can't even enjoy our money when we get it because everything is increasing and no one is making more money. Someone need to do something soon, because gas is just going to keep going up. When the gas goes up everything else goes up. I am so glad that I still live at home and I don't have to worry about paying for food, a house, and other life necessities. I could never make it.
Someone out there is getting rich and it sure isn’t us “normal” people. I think that every one should boycott buying gas. If every one stuck together and didn’t buy gas, didn’t go to work and so on then no one would lose their job, because if that was the case then everyone would have to be fired. I believe the semi-drivers tried to do this and some of them, but not all semi-drovers stuck to the plan. The reason why these oil companies are charging so much is because they can. If we keep paying, then they will keep increasing the prices of oil. It’s going to be a never ending cycle if we don't do something about it.