Have you done the math? Can you believe it? I mean, how insane can it get? In today's news an article showed that gas has reached $4 a gallon in some areas.

I found a link to a website which allows you to compare gas prices in your area, or any area in the country. Visit: http://gasbuddy.com/

I remember in the early 1980s when us teen girls would go out for the weekend, which included "cruising" Clearwater Beaches roads and looking for some hootin' and hollerin' and maybe even a little drag racing (I had my mom's 1978 camero and it was fuuuuuuuuun). We'd all chip in like a buck each for gas. We'd drink Mickey's Wide Mouth Beer or Strawberry Boonesfarm. I remember one time my friend getting sick in the car and to avoid the damage to my mom's car, my dear friend opened her purse and allowed my other friend to puke in it. Ahhhhhhh. Now that was love.

But today, in 2008, there's no cruising to be done. You don't run out of the house so quickly to buy a gallon of milk or a pack of cigs...you start justifying the drive and organizing errands to accomplish several tasks at once.

Good God, people speak of a depression forthcoming. Our home has been for sale for over a year now and we just dropped it below what we owe. Renting seems a more palatable option and we are learning to be "poor" just like the rest of America. My mother recently told me tales about people using old telephone book pages as toilet paper to wipe their asses. Can you imagine?

I'm more than a tad frightened about the future for my kids. Geeze.

Your thoughts?