Tuesday morning, many area gas stations raised their prices to just a few cents shy of $4.00 a gallon.
It's a nearly twenty cent jump from Monday's prices, and many customers say this is forcing them to change their lifestyle.
We've gotten used to gas prices taking 10-, 15- or even 20-cent jumps, but there is still something about that $4-a-gallon figure, isn't there? One of my co-workers said that for the first time when she pulled into a gas station, she actually felt like crying. She's a part-timer and lives some distance away. She says that at some point, she'll have to quit, because driving to and from work will cost her more than she gets paid.
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Kinda makes me yearn for those days when Henry Disston (yeah, the saw guy) had his factory along the Delaware river in what is now NE Philly.
When the saw business bottomed out during the Civil War, he turned to making metal fasteners and hardware for the military, and then went back to making saws after the conflict.
He actually built HOMES (entire neighborhoods) and a school for his employees (as well as provided amenities like grocery stores and clothiers) JUST SO the people wouldn't have to trek so far and not be able to show up for work.
And this type of activity happened across the USA during the industrial age.
Well, his factory has LONG since vanished (I remember climbing all over the huge grinding stones left behind), the stores have vanished, and the former employee housing is mostly ALL section 8, as people moved about 30 minutes OUTSIDE of Philly (where all the jobs seemed to move). Thankfully, the school is still going strong.
But even now...people HAVE to travel (on average 20-40 minutes) to get to work.
Gone nearly all the "neighborhood" places to work for the most part.
Gee...you think America did this to herself?
Maybe we should ask CHINA.
B.G.
He actually built HOMES (entire neighborhoods) and a school for his employees (as well as provided amenities like grocery stores and clothiers) JUST SO the people wouldn
Hey Harl.."Lincoln moved to Philadelphia, because there wasn