How the hell are we Americans supposed to  live when the gas prices are going up and our wages are not. I know that companies can't do much in the way of helping because this economic crap is hitting them just as hard! I've written to my state rep. and had a pettition sent right along with it. That was before things got as they are now. Soon we will be right along with Europe, paying as they do for a gallon of fuel! $10.00 to $12.00 a gallon? Think about it...
How do you feel the government should handle it, when it's hitting us hard and not them?!  

Hey dude I live in europe and the forecast tends to reach the 15$/gallon mark by end of summer (and will still rise). Currently Germany is about 10$ Greece about 8$ per gallon. This is hard.  

I completely feel your pain. I know that Europe, as a whole, has had high fuel prices for as long as I can remeber, BUT MAN, that bites! This is getting extremely rediculous. When are world governments going to take care of its people. No doubt the United States is hurting due to this economic fiasco but compared to other countries we've had it pretty easy. This perspective is mind boggling. Oil barons don't care about us, the every day normal person, and they get richer at our expense, along with our respective polititians!  

I agree to 100% but I and most others are everyday people and as long as this fact won't change I bet nothin else will change.
The sad thing is (refering to europe) that we can vote for any government available (local in our country) but nothing will change too.
This is a global problem so our big representives should agree somehow to face this problem. While the oil exporting countries get, as you said, richer
ourones thinks about taking his ride to go to work or not. I don't have much idea of politics but I know that if things go on like now we will within 2-3 years
tune our bicycles rather than our cars.  

I live in Alberta Canada and we are sitting on tons of oil. Because of NAFTA we are getting screwed because we have to pay the same for gas that we are charging the rest of the world. I pay 1.25/litre which works out to about 4.70/gallon which is more then they pay in the states for gas that comes from us. The provincial and federal governments are having huge budget surpluses while they are gouging there own people.  

It's exactly what I mean. Man, is this not a messed up world? Thanks to my idiot cousin, I've found an entertaining medium to express my views. I guess that I can only thank him for this forum, only. It's an eye opening experience to see how the rest of the world is getting along with the fuel issue. I've known, more or less, how it is in Spain because of my wifes' conversations with her family... Their views on Pres. Bush are none too nice. I agree with them, though. He's mostly to blame for how bad things escaladed, these past few years. He's the worst president in history! And he says that NAFTA works well. Maybe for his, and other world leaders', pockets... Now every person on the face of this Earth will have to fix what our respective governments and polititians have damaged! My children, and the children of the world, will pay for these past 8 years of global B.S.! MAN, I am completely outraged!!!!!!!!