Phil Gramm and his buddies are doing just fine, aren't they?
If gas got to $10/gal, Phil and the GOP elite would still be doing just fine. After all, they've spent the last 40 years raping and pillaging the Constitution and this nation, contorting laws for their own purposes and lying with every breath they can muster.
What they don't seem to get is when people like me, and the others like me, who shopped at the grocery and paid their bills regularly, are having trouble that means the economy is in serious trouble, no matter what's on paper. After all, without us spending what we do, what's to keep our consumerist economy afloat.