I guess this is a global problem, and it's not happening in just one country. We too here, in Romania, have this issue: the fuel price has spiked to around 4 RON/liter ( RON stands for Romanian New Leu, which is our country's currency and in dollars this means $1.66 ). We're probably not so affected by this, but we sure aren't happy either, especially because prices rise and salaries tend to remain still.
However, I'm glad that I have a
car which doesn't "eat" so much gas