Last week, I bought 30 gallons of diesel gas for my truck at a cost of $234. I\u2019m a retired teacher with a master\u2019s degree who taught for 30 years. My take-home income is $2,400 a month. I need two tanks a month, approximately $450, which comes out to 20% of my salary.<\/p>\n
I remember when the rule of thumb was that 20%-25% of earnings went to housing. Now it goes for gas. I remember when I bought the first tank of gas for my \u201953 Chevy. It took 10 gallons, cost me just a few bucks and included a box of Kleenex, a glass and Blue Chip Stamps \u2014 and my gas was pumped and my windows were washed.<\/p>\n
I have been retired for 28 years. Thank goodness my house is paid for. Try living on $2,400 per month with $450 going for gasoline. Thank you, Mr. President. Since he likes to change names, he should change MAGA to, \u201cMake Affordable Gas Again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Richard Flanery, Rancho Bernardo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, I bought 30 gallons of diesel gas for my truck at a cost of $234. I\u2019m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-499493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}