No Talking Points For You!
Turns out that story about us poor Americans choosing between food and gas was made up:
The Associated Press reported that financially pressed consumers were willing to spend less on food in order to pay for gasoline, according to a survey by the Food Marketing Institute. The institute’s report said that high oil prices, both at the pump and for home heating, were depressing consumers’ ability to spend more, but did not specify where that added spending would have occurred. The institute said it had no evidence that consumers were choosing to spend less for food in order to pay for gasoline.
