It was about a New Jersey Black family that felt that their $100/week family gasoline bill was unbearable. If I recall correctly gasoline at the time was pretty expensive. They had two or three kids.
While the husband was speaking to the reporter the wife was standing there with the look of self rightous indignation of someone that feels they have been cheated. The husband did the same thing when his wife was being interviewed. I actually started to feel somewhat sorry for them until I saw their family car.
It wasn't one of the big Detroit gas guzzlers. It was THE biggest gas guzzler on the market at the time. By no means was it the most expensive car Detroit was making at the time but it certainly wasn't inexpensive, either. It was a behemoth and a real monster of a vehicle.
That's when I stopped feeling sorry for them. They had made a very stupid decision. There were any number of smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles out there that were far less expensive to begin with. They could have paid about half the price for twice the fuel effiency and had enough room for the entire family.
I expect to see that story played again in the news in the not too distant future because the price of gasoline is going to increase soon at an alarming rate thanks to (fraudulent) President Biden's recent decision to shut down the Keystone pipeline and going after the oil companies. We WERE energy dependent and enjoyed inexpensive gasoline until he showed up.
Of course the next time they play this angle in the news as a human interest story they will likely choose an illegally immigrated Hispanic family. After all, we have to spread things out a bit.
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