Walmart-Lovers are making gas prices higher.

[SoCalDem]

It's ironic really, they drive their SUVs, one-person per vehicle, off to WallyLand to buy MORE plastic crap, because half a houseful just isn't enough. Goodness knows, the kids can never have too many pairs of $5.00 jeans and $2.00 plastic flipflops. China deserves to enter the modern era, but Walmartians and others like them have catapulted China, full grown and thirsty for oil, to a position equal to ours, except that THEY have most of OUR money....and what they don't have of it, we OWE them..

China used to be a country that used very little oil or resources, and of course now, they have arrived, and since there are MORE of them than of us, and we are BROKE, and in debt to them, color us Trouble-icious Teal .

Most of the oil that China is buying now (and India), is oil that WE used to have "first-dibs" on. The odd thing, is that American and western companies either refine, transport or indirectly OWN most of the oil in the "world market", so we are in a sense being sold down the river once again, by our own...and the benefit goes to the largest COMMUNIST country on earth. The same people who watch their stocks like teenage boys looking for internet porn, usually rail at the very thought of communism, but if it fattens their portfolios, and enables them to buy cheap plastic stuff for their kids, they couldn't care less about the rest of us..or the world.. They HAVE theirs..

So when you pay $2.50 plus at the pump, take a moment to think about WHY you are paying so much, and who really benefits:(