Reply #3: Its so tough when gas prices go up

[Marrah_G]

When you are poor every cent you have is used up every week.
When gas goes up you have to take the money from someplace else.
When gas goes up food and necessities also go up, again, that money has to come from somewhere.

The poor don't often have the option of public transportation, solar or wind, nifty new Prius or Leafs.
The poor get by driving old inefficient cars, pay the higher prices because they have to and hope to get through each month without the phone, electric or cable going out.

Before people gripe to much about the poor "wasting" money on cable.....remember that it's often the only entertainment they have.