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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Um even without the sprawl, the fucked wages for many are a major factor.
US has 4.75 a gallon gas. New person working for McDonald's 1 hour = 5.15 and lets say round trip is 30 miles and persons car gets 30mpg. Well the first hour still placed them .40 cents ahead of round trip travel.
Since many companies in the US do not want full time people, lets assume the person gets lucky and gets 30 hours a week. (5 days at 6 hours each). Gas sucks out 23.75 from that paycheck just for travel to work only. They earn 154.50 a week, minus the work travel and its now 130.75 (yes we are leaving taxes out of this for simple math)
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also, factor in, grocery prices are going up as well because it costs more to ship them, so now what little he was already making, will be stretched even further.