Well, the energy prices are important ones to ourselves, along with our traveling costs and our home costs. But we pay them again in our education costs, we pay them again in our health care costs. And in business, we pay them again in business; if one owns a business, that is a high energy user, so it hits us a lot of ways when energy prices spike that much.
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