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Price of gas keeping tourists away as a big catch is driving prices down. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25936497/)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Maine_Lobster.jpgAP - July 30, 2008

Lobster on the dock. A bargain compared to the cost of fuel.

High fuel costs effect even the most obscure of businesses and it really is harming America. -- Ed.

PORTLAND, Maine - It's peak season for lobster and tourism in Maine, yet consumption of this crustacean has fallen to the point where it costs no more than sliced turkey in parts of New England.

A solid harvest and diminished demand from diners adjusting to the weak economy have pushed the retail price of lobster in Maine beneath $6 a pound, tightening the financial squeeze on fisherman struggling with soaring fuel prices.

While fewer locals and tourists overall are shelling out for lobster dinners, some say the affordability — at a time when most food prices are rising — has encouraged them to eat more of the seafood delicacy than usual… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25936497/

I'm planning a trip to Bar Harbor in September, and you can be sure I'll have a lobster dinner in a restaurant right on the dock. Some whale-watching will be in order, if the seas are calm...

Harry

Hey, this is not supposed to happen!

As recently as 2006, plenty of defensive netizens were screaming "I don't care if it's $10 a gallon"....they seemed to think they had bulletproof jobs and could watch everyone else go down. Guess what? They are going down with the rest of us.

Boat? Sails :-)

And I'm one of those who don't care if it's $10/gal. At that price, driving my 70 mpg Insight costs me the same as a guzzler would have at $2.50. When you figure it's been close to three decades since the Arab oil embargo, and we've appealed to everything from patriotism to penny-pinching to get people to change their behavior... Well, maybe pain will do the trick.

I think even the hypermilers have to worry about gas going to $10 a gallon.

We may be cutting back on energy, but if the general public continues business as usual, everybody feels the pain. I still have to pay higher food prices, higher prices for anything where delivery is a significant part of the cost.