This story is getting lots of attention on frugal living and mainstream news sites, in addition to nearly 50 comments on its host newspaper site: Salt Lake Tribune reports Sisters protest high gas prices – Mom had to cancel cable to pay for commute.

A snippet:

Sadie, 9, and her sister Pyper, 7, marched around downtown Salt Lake City chanting, “Lower the gas prices,” while carrying homemade signs. The sisters decided to protest after losing their favorite cable TV shows when their mother, Michelle, had to sacrifice cable TV to pay for her daily commute.

“Gas prices are too high,” Sadie said. “I just decided to come and protest so they’d go down.”

The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in Utah was $4.07 on Monday …

Now, it’s an old argument about cable being a reasonable expense to cut out when finances are tight. I had no cablevision during the years I was a divorced / single mother. Luckily, my preschool daughter was too young to notice that Grandma and Grandpa had TV channels that she and I didn’t have at home.

What I see in this story are future community activists and leaders …

If these girls have the guts to come up with, and follow through with, such an idea at this age, can you imagine what they will be doing in 10, 20 or 30 years?

You go, girls!

(By the way, when I was in grade school, I wrote a letter to the Ohio state governor complaining about an early start to Daylight Savings Time. I didn’t like standing on along a dark highway waiting for my school bus in the morning. My uncle still laughs when he tells of the letter I received back from the governor’s office — apparently, from the the tone of the response, the letter writer wasn’t convinced that a young girl made the complaint.)