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Originally posted by Opti@May 28 2004, 06:48 AM
maybe Americans are freaking out more about gas prices right now than i realise... But although I have seen the news reports about $2/gallon I have been thinking it appeared Americans are not as spooked by high oil prices as they once were.
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4/8/04
"A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds nearly 7 in 10 Americans saying the cost of gasoline represents a crisis or major problem for the United States. In recent years, the public has tended to see rising gas prices as only a short-term phenomenon, but now Americans expect that the higher gas prices are more permanent. Slightly less than half of Americans say that the higher gas prices have caused financial hardship for their households, but a majority believes higher gas prices this summer will lead to hardship for them."