With gas prices always going up and down. It makes it hard for anyone to live on a budget these days. I don’t believe that taxes play a huge part when gas goes up or down. Besides either way they are getting there money no matter what gas prices are. Therefore people don’t need gas but it is a neccesity, because people use it all the time and can’t go anywhere in our cars if we don’t have gas to go anywhere. What I’ve seen in my town is when gas goes up. Theres not many people at the gas pumps. I’m sure most people are not filing up either. Where as if gas prices were to go down a lot of people would fill up, increases gas sales. Also, with gas being so high a lot of people may wait until it goes down to do any travleing and which in return