fuel prices are destroying my livlihood. No one can afford a vacation. I have to take less shifts. How much of this crap do we take.

More than 6 of Ten US citizens say it's important they escape from home this year, a recent Gallup Poll finds. And many say they're finding ways around high gasoline prices, airfares and hotel rooms to do it.
"Rising gas prices won't at all affect my vacation," claims Richard Miller of Plano, Texas, who's flying to San Francisco in July with a ticket he scooped up in a fare sale. "I'm going."
The poll signifies that Americans are prepared to pay more to get away this summer : 71% of those that have a tendency to travel say they are expecting to spend more on transportation this year, and 44% plan on paying rather more for food, lodging and entertainment.
Pay more they'll. Just about every aspect of travel in the usa costs more than it did last year, with the summer travel season beginning in less than two weeks, on Memorial Day weekend