We are in the same boat fuel prices are at a 4 year low....compared to a year ago inflation dropped from 5.2%  to 00.5%... But...national growrh has also dropped off the richter scale and is currently sitting a fraction off 0%....That indicates that Government is printing money to throw at the problem of ecconmic staganation....That means an escalationg national debt and somewhere some time over the course of 2009 that debt is going to have to be tackled head on......