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Originally Posted by gomiami
I have never quite understood the fascination with analyzing the cost of basic/needed commodities. For example, not too many years ago, milk (around here) cost less than $3 a gallon and now cost about $5.
The choices are - stop drinking milk or stop worrying about the cost per gallon.
I use the same philosophy when it comes to gasoline.
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A fair point, but this assumes you're helpless and at the mercy of market forces. That's more true for the milk though than the gas. The reason gas prices are where they are is because a politician with different energy policies took office. I'm not defending Trump, simply stating a fact: his policies lowered US gas prices and resulted in the country being energy independent. So it doesn't have to be Trump, but you can support candidates whose approach on energy is similar.
These issues aren't complicated. It's Economics 101 and we have plenty of history to look at too, but the people in power think doing the same things that resulted in disastrous inflation before just somehow weren't done well enough last time. That's not the problem.