From Tire Review
New research by Quinnipiac University shows that rising gasoline prices are a “very serious problem” according to 41 percent of American voters. Another 32 percent view gas prices as a “somewhat serious problem.”
As a result, 58 percent of American voters say they have “cut back significantly” on how much they drive, the independent survey found, with 48 percent saying they have “cut back significantly” on household spending in order to pay higher gas prices.
Rising gas prices, the survey showed, have forced 33 percent of Americans to change their summer vacation plans, while 64 percent say they have not changed their plans because of gas prices.
Asked whom they blame most for rising gasoline prices:
• 43 percent blame oil companies
• 20 percent blame President Bush
• 13 percent cite supply and demand
• 11 percent blame oil producing countries
• 4 percent blame other American drivers
