Just another post full of wishful thinking of the way things ought to be, in response to the current issues, at least. When it comes to gas, lowest prices here are around $5.25 and no end in sight. That’s a jump of no less than $1.75 per gallon for “the cheap stuff” anymore, and everyone who isn’t living lucratively — which is basically almost everyone — is suffering for it.
People are stretching their paychecks so thin that they’re disappearing. We were already barely making ends meet BEFORE the fuel hike, and now, some aren’t making it at all, because they cannot lose their only income, they’re gradually becoming less and less able to afford the commute to work in the first place.
So clearly, action must be taken — and soon. Either gas prices need to drop substantially back to the prices they were before Russia f*cked around, or there needs to be reimbursement for travels to lighten the blow to our expenses. (And sorry, but electric vehicles still aren’t a viable answer today, unless the cost of E-vehicles, their maintenance, and repairs cost as much or less than an economy fuel-powered vehicle.)
I mean, the employers are the ones demanding their workers to show up on-site. And sure, before the gas hike, people had reliable transportation, but now? It’s not reliable if it’s no longer affordable — and the cost of fuel required to make their vehicle run in the first place is not within the employee’s control.
It doesn’t even have to be a wild amount of money to reimburse workers, either — just a paltry 40¢ to 50¢ per mile driven would make a substantial difference. It doesn’t even have to be permanent! I mean… personally speaking, I think reimbursement for travel expenses to work SHOULD be permanent, but that’s entering a whole other level of wishful thinking.
Forcing employers to temporarily pay back gas mileage expenses might just be exactly what we need to lower gas prices, anyway. Once we force the billionaires to open their wallets just a bit more, they would lose their minds, and watch as they scramble with the government and oil suppliers to demand lower gas prices.
If only, right?