[Skinny Shooter]

Last Spring and Summer the gas prices started going up or the spectre of increased prices was out there.
Our business and others like it experienced a slow time thru the end of Summer. Feedback from customers and networking with other business gave me the perspective of "When it costs $60 or more to fill your tank, you take money away from "wants" and give it to the "needs"".
Now with gas rising again, I shudder to see how our Summer is going to play out. That is supposed to be our busy time period.
A result of last years slow down is that we let our full-time employee go. We couldn't afford to have one.
When gas goes up, we all pay more beyond just the costs at the pump...
Hurricane season is just around the corner. A little off-topic, long range "predictions" indicate the mid-atlantic states as a target for this eyars hurricanes... We'll see.
It's time to stop selling off our domestic oil, open ANWR and any other domestic oil-production areas, plus expedite alternative energy production. Hopefully the high gas prices will cause people to regulate their driving which will result in a glut in the market driving prices back down. It's a convoluted issue with no easy fix.