You're not just paying more at the pump...you're paying more for just about everything else. Sure, a $2 dollar increase per gallon of gas at your personal expense may cause you to trim your budget a bit, but consider this:
Notice the price of milk? Food? Other goods? It takes TRUCKS to deliver them from the warehouses to the shelves. You can scream, bitch, and holler at everyone to consume less gas, but the trucks that deliver essential(and non-essential) goods to our shelves can NOT consume less......we need food, milk, and clothing.
It doesn't help that the average consumer is laden with debt. 98% of the personal vehicles on the road are not owned by the driver. The Dollar is being rejected. Gold and Silver are reaching record highs.
But yet, our foreign aid certainly is not decreasing. Israel, followed by the Saudis, receive more than generous amounts of money and military equipment. It's time we stop feeding their mouths and start feeding our own.