You're right - it doesn't make sense.

Their plight is the result of a series of poor decisions that have little to do with gas prices. A doubling in gas price for that 50 mile commute equates to around an hundred thirty a month @ 20mpg.

Fixing up a house on credit card debt is economic Darwinism.

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2008 Subaru Outback
2009 Subaru Forester