Not so long ago, when gas was pushing $5.00 a gallon in the United States, it was the number one news story in both the old and new media. Every day you’d get another report on how high gas is going, what could be done, how it hurts people, what its doing to other prices, what happens next, how it got there, and so on. Some pundits were predicting six, even seven dollars a gallon in the coming years.

But then, that was when the president was Republican and his name was Bush.  As gas prices continue to rise over the last year, the news stories are scant, and the human interest “here’s how high gas prices hurt this family” stories are nowhere to be seen.  In fact, its difficult to find a story about gas prices going up at all, let alone how those rising prices are impacting the price of food and other goods as a result.