At certain times of the day, you may notice less people out on the roads and less people in restaurants. Gas prices are reaching four dollars a gallon and the American dollar just doesn’t seem to be going as far as it use to.
Robert McNeill, 19, says he’s had to quit a lot of his hobbies because it was getting to expensive. He doesn’t eat out much, though sometimes he does when he is at work. He mainly tries to eat what he has at home and what his parents provide him with.
Even places like movie theaters are feeling the effects of a slowing economy.
Courtney Graves, a movie theater employee, says she has noticed a definite decrease in movie attendance. She says this means the employees get less hours, since the theater isn’t making as much. She feels the entertainment industry is definitely being effected by the slowing economy.
I did talk to one man who has been able to stay ahead of the slowing economy, Larry Dauge, owner of ScubaToys.com and GatSplat Enterprises.
Dauge says that since the American dollar is so weak now, he can easily get scuba business from other nations, like Australia. However, he says most paintball suppliers are Canadian and since the American dollar is on par with the Canadian dollar, he has noticed a price increase in paintball supplies by 20 percent.
So with summer approaching, people should just save their money, maybe get back to nature and wait out this “possible” recession.
