I can only speak for middle America. Most of us live in small towns and the work requires fuel. Getting to and from work is one problem. The guy who digs your basement, repairs your septic tank, farms, runs a cement mixer or generator on a construction site will have to charge you more to do the work they do.
Mowing the lawn used to be the cost of the change found in the couch or laundry. $20 to fill a lawnmower ... the grass gets cut every week and a half now. We run the horses in the yard a couple of days a week now days... it helps.
For those of us who have no alternative transportation available... wages will have to rise to cover the cost of commutes. Those costs will pass along to the products you folks wont buy because all your cash is going to the higher prices you pay... plus the added cost of your transportation costs. Suburban -SUV... any one who could trade off a truck they dont need is doing it. Those of us who need capacity and horsepower to make a living ..get screwed double. BTW... my truck gets over 21 mpg with the livestock trailer parked.
If the USA-Canadians would turn their backs on OPEC for a few months and tough it out on domestic production the Arabs would cut out the extortion.
Old wells got restarted when crude hit $100Barrel.... plus exporation took off at that price. That tell me domestic production was sandbagged as long as OPEC played nice.
Wait until the trucking industry just goes home and parks. There is a train track running near amost all towns of any size in the US... but we got out of the train business and left it as a skeleton industry years ago... especially passenger service.
Bring it on... I know how to drive a "2 up hitch"
Jeff