@xgranade 7. gas prices also disproportionately affect rural and "red state" voters, because things are much farther apart in those areas, and those areas are overrepresented in political institutions, so this concern is given more weight. Some of this is self-inflicted conservative policy bullshit (not building infrastructure, etc) but a lot of it is legit: on a farm you have an order of magnitude more need for portable energy than in an apartment building