Really hot car, I am thinking about a motorcycle.  I wish I had a shower at the office.  I would ride my bike to work everyday

High gas prices make it more important than ever that we not allow ourselves to become merely chauffeurs.

I know of several that have tried to do a refi, but the appraisers are becoming very tight with their appraisals, and people are having a harder time making ends meet, thus producing more debit and lower credit scores.  The price of gas is having a huge negative effect on a home owner's income/debit ratio!  A few years ago when a buyer did a loan application, it did not take into account the price of fuel and the effects that this price increase has on all consumer products across the board!  When I bought my home 3 years ago, I was spending about $50 a week, or about $250 month on gas.  I now spend about 4 times that amount, around $800 a month for the same amount of gas!  I don't know many home owner's who can absorb that kind of a price jump in the monthly budget!  The price of gas has now cost many a home owner their monthly house payment!  The big oil people in Washington are making more money than ever, and their personal stake in the economy is better than ever! I hope that the working class can all just hang on until the elections!  In other countries around the world, the citizens would rebel and would not stand for their government to allow this to happen! Why do we?