High gas prices got you down?

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2006
    Do high gas prices have me down? No. I will pay what I have to in order to get to where I'm going. If I didn't have a work vehicle, I'd use public transportation when viable.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited April 2006
    couple less beers i can consume on the weekend, couple less hours on the fishing boat, Nah screw it..
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited April 2006
    I guess the financial ruin and medical bills must have subsided, eh?

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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited April 2006
    So the economy is growing by leaps and bounds, unemployment is extremely low, well below what is considered "full employment", personal income is up, retail sales are at record highs, new home sales are at an all time high but gas prices are up so its the end of the world?

    Yeah, cars in England get 40 mpg. They can also fit in the trunk of most US cars. Since we're not socialists we dont have $4 of taxes on every gallon of gas so we can buy bigger cars. I guarantee you it Englands gas was $2/gallon youd see a bunch of Union Jacks flying off the antena of Suburbans.

    And "big oil" has been investigated hundreds of times over many years and has never been nailed for price gouging. The FTC has a department that monitors oil and gas companies 24/7 and to the best of my knowledge have never found any wrong doing.

    Im not saying oil companies are saints, but theyre no different than most other companies. Theyre trying to make a profit. Thats what businesses do. And their profit margin, on average is around 9%. Exactly in line with most business and actually on the lower end of the scale.

    The high oil prices have nothing to do with Bush or the "big oil". Demand has skyrocketed thanks to China, India and some to Russia yet our supply has stayed basically the same. It is only natural that prices will rise. You want prices to drop, increase supply. Drill Alaska, the Kalifornia coast, the Gulf of Mexico, build more refineries, build more nuclear plants.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited April 2006
    LOL..........i read the first 8 words in the email notification that i received and before i saw who made the post I knew that was Mac........
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2006
    My trip to Bermuda last year made me re-evaluate my bitching. Try living on an island...where practically everything is an import. Gas prices elsewhere are higher than it is domestically....get a life America.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited April 2006
    brettw22 wrote:
    LOL..........i read the first 8 words in the email notification that i received and before i saw who made the post I knew that was Mac........

    LOL! Yeah, if its a smartass rant, then ya know its either me or Demi. :p
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited April 2006
    dorokusai wrote:
    My trip to Bermuda last year made me re-evaluate my bitching.
    To be clear, I think you meant your bitching specifically to prices.....because you're still as much a **** as you ever were.......ya know.....pre-Bermuda.
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2006
    Yes, that's what I meant.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited April 2006
    Don't just buy the fuel..........buy their stock. The more you guys pay, the more I get paid. It isn't a wash, but it sure as hell beats bitchin' about it and doin' nothin'!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    edited April 2006
    My trip to Bermuda last year made me re-evaluate my bitching. Try living on an island...where practically everything is an import.

    Yeah, but it IS Bermuda -- I'd be happy to live there if I could afford it!
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited April 2006
    I have the company car:D so the gas prices really don't hit me as hard as they should. My significant other has a 1992 Honda Civic and it costs him $28.00 to fill up and it last for a while..that's the main reason he still keeps it . He is frugal like that which I like actually.
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited April 2006
    three words my friends: Compressed Natural Gas
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2006
    I have natural gas heating in my house.... sure wasn't cheap this year.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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