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[Moontanman]

I hate to say it, but I don't see gas prices going anywhere but up. I see people on TV talking about how the gas prices aren't impacting their lives very much but I do know people who are doing more than just staying home from fun, they are having to make very hard decisions about food, medicine and energy. for me it isn't easy but i do manage to go where i need to. i miss driving around in the country pursuing my native fish collecting hobby but i can do with out that. I see people who are walking great distances instead of driving. More and more people are walking several miles to go where they need to go and some of them are not fit enough to do that. Not sure what is going to happen but to a great extent the public has brought some of this about by stopping the building of refineries, opposing the building of new nuclear power plants, and by not insisting on high mileage cars instead of low pollution cars. We had a Chance to start to move away from gasoline in the 70's and we choose not to. Now is the time to look ahead and insist on the correct choices this time because next time might not come in time to save us from our selves.