Getting by ...

I asked this question a while back and my neighbor Blondie brings it up again. Living on Long Island (as she and I both do) car travel is a way of life (mass transit isn't good until you get into the 5 Boroughs of NYC. The eastern counties - Nassau, Suffolk - don't even compare). To get anywhere you have to drive, so the price of gas hits us especially hard:

So what do you do when you're a part time employee who makes about $10/hour and it takes you a gallon or so of gas to get to work and another gallon or so to get home and they ask you to come in on Saturday morning for a couple of hours and the gas price is up to $4.15 for regular at the cheap gas station?

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