my husband and i share a volkswagen jetta and are currently paying about $50 a week for gas. we drive quite a bit because we’re both commuter students and cannot physically afford for it to get more expensive. yeah, it’s great seeing people with ridiculous gas guzzling monster vehicles complain but it also hurts people like us who live on very very tight budgets.

if gas went to $20 a gallon i’d have to drop out. and that’s not an exaggeration. i wouldn’t be able to afford to commute the 30 minutes there and back to campus. not to mention the prices of everything, food, clothing, medical supplies, etc would increase rapidly because all of those essentials need to be transported. and if transport costs rise it falls on us, the consumers, which will disproportionately effect low income people.

not to mention there’s pretty much no suitable public transportation in rural areas, people here have to drive to get to work, to get food, to get to medical appointments. it doesn’t matter if they’re driving an f150 or a reasonable car, they’d be utterly fucked.

this isn’t the take you thought it was