gas prices have little effect on me. i don't drive a car and i'm shielded from inflation. i benefit when prices come back down. rent increases effect me, but rent inflation has nothing to do with gas, it has to do with overpopulation.

that said, it's a good time for politicians to go on tv and talk about sacrifices for the greater good, in eradicating a deep threat to human freedom. we will all have to make some kind of sacrifices, to ensure that the religious extremists in iran are destroyed.