For the last two months, Eric Simpson has been facing a dilemma: go surfing, or save gas for his commute?
Simpson, 26, works as a union ironworker — a rodbuster, to be precise. Recently he's been commuting six days a week from his home in Fullerton, California to his job site in Universal City, where he lays down rebar for a new eight-story office building and six-story parking structure.
On Sundays, his one day off, he used to go surfing or fishing. But the gas math, on top of rising rent and grocery prices, has changed all that.
