and the driver noticed what the latest and (literally) greatest price of unleaded is...

and perhaps in even clearer language...

Despite all the appearance of wealth creation in the US equity markets, the S&P buys 10% fewer gallons of gas for your car than its average since the MAR09 lows (and 20% fewer than its pre-QE1 peak) with the last few weeks of action also removing almost 10% of purchasing power even as stocks soared...
Charts: Bloomberg
(h/t Omid Malekan)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/presenting-biggest-tradeoff-surging-stock-market

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.