by Anna Johnson

Created on: May 24, 2008   Last Updated: May 28, 2008

In a minute we will all be walking to work, gas is just outrageous. The rising prices on the pump have affected grocery shopping, traveling to anywhere. Walking down the isle of the grocery store it hit me that milk was four dollars. Then I get the gallon of milk home after three days it has gone bad. With a family of four, the grocery bill use to be one hundred and fifty dollars. This would last for at least three months but now we are lucky if we can get through a month. Everything seems to spoil so much faster that going to the store is just a headache. Taking the children to have any type of fun is going to cost me four dollars a gallon right now. However, before summer is over the gas will be six dollars in my mind I keep wondering do we really have a middle class. It seems there are the wealthy and the middle class is becoming nonexistent. The salaries at the job are not changing but everything around us is. This gas situation has caused flights to go up to seven hundred dollars in some instances. In order to go anywhere we are now trying to go on family cruises and even the price for this will change because of gas. Right now to get a flight I stay up until midnight and wait for the flights that people have on hold and have not been paid for to be released. Once they are released, the airlines have to still honor the price but how much longer is that going to last. They want to blame the war on terrorism on everything but how has this war helped any of us. I remember a time I could go to the gas station and fill up and it was a dollar a gallon eight years ago. Now if I can get the tank to be half way full I feel like maybe I can make it for at least two days.

Taking my car to get serviced is higher because in order for the mechanic shop to sometimes get parts. They have to get someone to transport parts to the shop, which involves gas. Ordering food and having it delivered has gone up to twenty-five dollars for one pizza and a two-liter soda. Putting up the car if you could and catch public transportation is even high. I feel like whoever is pushing the buttons is getting rich and in the meantime, my family suffers. It is very frustrating to go to work and punch a clock and wait every two weeks for a check to come and by the time all, the bills are paid. What is left is simply just enough to get gas and maybe a little lunch. All the little extra shopping for nice things for the house or for the kids. That went out the window when the price of something

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