I hear what you all say, but gas here is a dollar a gallon more than it was ONE MONTH ago. My car gets only 30 miles a gallon, and when things are tight, that's tough. I budgeted 10 tanks of gas for my routes, at $25 a tank, and it now costs $38 to fill the tank -- and adding 3 cents a miles for gas costs is still a 30% increase in less than a month. And bonuses are more likely to go down 30% than up 30%! In fact, the route I'm doing this weekend (mini-route) paid $125 a shop last year, and this time is paying $75, $90, and the rest at $100. So the same route I made $1100 on last year, I'm making $775 on this year.