Gas Prices are really stressing me out

So first let me say that I am an oilfield girlfriend.  An oilfield job pays our bills.  My views come from that of someone who lives the life.  Dave is a pump truck driver or bulk truck driver.  He does not make the big bucks like some do.  He is on-call every day of the month 24 hours a day except two Saturdays and Sundays a month.

I have gotten in several Facebook arguments lately with people who just love the low gas prices.  I have admitted and will admit that before I entered this lifestyle I would be right up there with them.  I now understand the other side of this.  I do not want gas prices to rise so high nobody can afford to travel.  I would just like to see them get back to a rate where we can all afford to get to our jobs and other places but oilfield workers are not losing their jobs or experiencing pay and hour cuts.  For us it has been pay cuts and hour cuts.  Like I said we do not make a lot of extra money so we were not able to prepare to put money back like so many suggest.  I was disabled from a vehicle accident in November of 2013.  I cannot perform my full time job and career.  I do have a part time job and some residual income from my businesses but we have 4 kids between us.  We have one in college, two in high school and one in grade school.  Our family relies on his income to pay our bills.  I get frustrated with people who totally refuse to see that side of it.  They argue about people losing jobs all the time.  I don't think people understand that companies are laying off 7,000 to 9,000 people a day.  This affects many people all at once.  There are many towns that thrive on the oilfield workers to give them business.  This is affecting the economy and will continue to do so.

For me it means that I am stressed that I cannot get the groceries we need or afford the extra things for my son and his sons.  It means that I am trying to find extra income for myself to supplement even though I cannot perform any jobs that require me to sit for long periods.  There are so many oilfield families going through these issues but people have blinders on.  They get their gas cheap and that is all they are concerned with.  I even had a man state the other day after I was saying how stressed I was that he hoped it went down even cheaper.  This life is still fairly new after being in it for almost 2 years no but only with us living together for 1 year.  I plan to better prepare next time but it is tough right now.  It is affecting my health and I just pray that we can get to a happy medium for everyone soon.