Concern About Runaway Gas Prices Soars
Until very recently, the American people have been remarkably unflappable about soaring gas prices. No more, according to the latest Gallup poll, conducted 3/21-23. Asked "What is the most important economic problem facing the country today?," 17 percent of respondents put "fuel/oil prices" at the top of the list, ahead of such factors as unemployment, health care costs and social security and more than triple the percentage polled a month ago, when 5 percent chose gas prices as top priority.