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Reality Check
Aug. 7th, 2008 06:21 pmSo, you think you've got it bad, with soaring prices?
Be glad you don't live in Barrow, Alaska.
There, a gallon of unleaded gasoline costs $10, a gallon of heating fuel costs $9 and electricity is $1.17 per kilowatt hour. That's eleven times the national average.
At the local grocery store, a loaf of bread goes for $6; a gallon of milk, $10; a dozen eggs, $4.60; a pound of strawberries, $10; a half-pound of lunch meat is $7.
It gets worse in some other villages, out in the Bush, where between 40 and 50% of a person's pay goes to pay fuel costs.
Forty to fifty percent.
If not for subsistence hunting, a lot of people would be on food stamps. Or worse.
As it is, winter is fast approaching and already people are abandoning their rural homes, simply because they can't afford the cost of heating them.
So, the next time you're cruising down the highway, or shopping for your family, take a look at the prices,and realize just how good you've got it.
Greatful - MEL
Be glad you don't live in Barrow, Alaska.
There, a gallon of unleaded gasoline costs $10, a gallon of heating fuel costs $9 and electricity is $1.17 per kilowatt hour. That's eleven times the national average.
At the local grocery store, a loaf of bread goes for $6; a gallon of milk, $10; a dozen eggs, $4.60; a pound of strawberries, $10; a half-pound of lunch meat is $7.
It gets worse in some other villages, out in the Bush, where between 40 and 50% of a person's pay goes to pay fuel costs.
Forty to fifty percent.
If not for subsistence hunting, a lot of people would be on food stamps. Or worse.
As it is, winter is fast approaching and already people are abandoning their rural homes, simply because they can't afford the cost of heating them.
So, the next time you're cruising down the highway, or shopping for your family, take a look at the prices,and realize just how good you've got it.
Greatful - MEL
