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$20.00 For a five gallon can! Now I get it

mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Oouch! I filled a 5 gallon can for the tractor and paid 20 bucks! How can the bell man and housekeepers get to work and still eat, a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk 8.00! It's killin America to ship our dollars to Argentina, China, India, and the middle East
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!

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  • MFinnMFinn Member Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went today to fill my truck up, I could not, it stopped at $75, used credit card to pay at the pump. SUX
  • GotteskriegerGotteskrieger Member Posts: 3,170 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    these prices are not sustainable. People will start cutting back and the supply will exceed the demand. (according to adam smith)
  • Jacob2008Jacob2008 Member Posts: 19,528 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can still grab it for approx 3.75 - 3.85 here...

    Milk: 3.40
    Bread: 1.20
    Beer: still cheaper three gallons of gas OR milk!



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  • NeilTheBritNeilTheBrit Member Posts: 390 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Gotteskrieger
    these prices are not sustainable. People will start cutting back and the supply will exceed the demand. (according to adam smith)


    I have no idea who Adam Smith is, but China will increase it gasoline consumption by 24.7% by 2010 and India's consumption is up by 15% this year.
    The demand is increasing, so expect to look back at $4 a gallon as "the good old days"
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Can say for a fact price of gas is guiding me now. Stay home much more, take most direct route to and from work. Will save some notw that the weather is nicer. Riding my Motorcycle, but by weelend fun rides have come to an abrupt stop.

    Used to mow the two fields closest to the place, now just the yard, and not a much as I used to.

    Would move to town if I can find a place, that accepts pets. Not many like having a person with 4 cats move in. There is no way I'm moving without them.

    Also what stops me is not many places have a large Garage, most are so small that with my tool box in there I would have trouble just putting one Motorcycle in there. Right now I have a Huge 2 car that is extra long, leaving room to work in front of a car parked in there.
  • ScottymacScottymac Member Posts: 472 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wait till next month when your paying 5.00 a gallon your can will cost you 25, then at 6/30. I see 6 before Christmas, Feds will step in and ration public will scream for more public transportation and we will lose the freedom of driving our own vehicle, part of the overall disaster that awaits us
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cats would be the last thing keeping me from doing anything sorryquote:Originally posted by dnelson457
    Can say for a fact price of gas is guiding me now. Stay home much more, take most direct route to and from work. Will save some notw that the weather is nicer. Riding my Motorcycle, but by weelend fun rides have come to an abrupt stop.

    Used to mow the two fields closest to the place, now just the yard, and not a much as I used to.

    Would move to town if I can find a place, that accepts pets. Not many like having a person with 4 cats move in. There is no way I'm moving without them.

    Also what stops me is not many places have a large Garage, most are so small that with my tool box in there I would have trouble just putting one Motorcycle in there. Right now I have a Huge 2 car that is extra long, leaving room to work in front of a car parked in there.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • KodiakkKodiakk Member Posts: 5,582
    edited November -1
    I can afford the gas, but it still pisses me off. I could be putting that money towards my house note. I put in a garden this year to try and offset some food costs. I'm seriously thinking about selling my home and moving farther out where I can have a few acres to offset more food costs. Plus out there the taxes are MUCH lower and the housing seems to be a little cheaper which in combination would save me hundreds on my house note a month. Really thinking over whether to go back offshore agian or not. If I did then I would have a company truck and gas card and make almost 3 times what I do now. Downside is I would hardly ever see my family like it used to be when I worked out there before.

    Yep I'd say gas prices are making a pretty big effect on my life. Although it doesn't have to really yet. It's my choice, more like bracing myself for the future and "worst case".
  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote: Originally posted by NeilTheBrit
    quote:Originally posted by Gotteskrieger
    these prices are not sustainable. People will start cutting back and the supply will exceed the demand. (according to adam smith)


    I have no idea who Adam Smith is, but China will increase it gasoline consumption by 24.7% by 2010 and India's consumption is up by 15% this year.
    The demand is increasing, so expect to look back at $4 a gallon as "the good old days"
    If your really a "Brit" it's hard to believe you don't know who Adam Smith isquote:Originally by Wikipedia
    Adam Smith (baptised June 16, 1723 - July 17, 1790 [OS: June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment, he is known primarily as the author of two treatises: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith is also known for his explanation of how rational self-interest and competition, operating in a social framework which ultimately depends on adherence to moral obligations, can lead to economic well-being and prosperity. His work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known rationales for free trade. He is widely acknowledged as the "father of economics".[1]

    Smith entered the University of Glasgow when he was fourteen and studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson, where he developed his passion for liberty, reason, and free speech. In 1740, Smith left the University of Glasgow to attend Balliol College, Oxford.

    The Wealth of Nations is Smith's magnum opus, and is considered to be one of the most influential books ever written.
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ====
    Central Coast California:

    Diesel: $5.25/gal
    Bread: $4.79/loaf
    Milk: $3.00+ 1/2 gallon
    Tomatoes: $3.00/lb.
    etc.
    etc.
  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wolf.
    ====
    Central Coast California:

    Diesel: $5.25/gal
    Bread: $4.79/loaf
    Milk: $3.00+ 1/2 gallon
    Tomatoes: $3.00/lb.
    etc.
    etc.
    That better be some really, really, really good bread!
  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went through Amboy, Kalifornia on June ninth & the price was $4.99/gal for regular. (I had filled up in Twenty-nine Palms for $4.13/gal.) In Kingman, Arizona it was $3.97/gal.
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