That's just it. You cannot separate the two. Impact on Bill Gates may be small. Impact on businesses nationwide is huge. And on middle income or lower income people huge. Depends how much you make.
Electicity costs for this one business have gone up from 5K to 7500 K or so. That's not significant?
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/31/news..._gas/index.htm
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ap...509040310/1071
It's kind of like this. I am not serving in Iraq. No brother or sister there. So no impact on me, day to day whatsoever.
But financial impact on our society and psychological impact of deaths huge. Can you really separate the two?
I don't lose any sleep over Iraq on a day to day basis. Does that make my relative indifference valid? It's my reality. But in analyzing the impact on society, my personal experience is almost invalid.
It's one experience out of 250 million experiences that you need to consider.
Everything's connected.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/02/news...pact/index.htm
And psychologically, I am thinking twice before taking weekend trips out of town, due to high gas prices.