Giving Our Children a Gas Crisis of Their Very Own

…Our boy, who must also budget for the exigencies of a steady girlfriend, has beefed up his work hours since graduation. But his long-awaited raise at the market was only two bits, up to $8.75 an hour. Gloomily, he concluded:


Some of his co-workers have lost their homes in foreclosure; others have lost their cars. One young man parks his car at a different pal