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Gas Prices!!

American Woman

American Woman

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So how has the rising gas prices changed the way you live?

Well to start with because my pay depends on the public I have seen a drop
in my wages because people are putting off haircuts until the last min. So now I have been actively looking for another job closer to home. I will take a cut in pay, but I have a bigger cut anyway because of the gas prices and the long distance I drive presently......Groceries are higher. For the first time in years I'm making choices of what I "really need".....We live 15 miles from town, so now I only go when necessary.....
 
American Woman said:
So how has the rising gas prices changed the way you live?

Well to start with because my pay depends on the public I have seen a drop
in my wages because people are putting off haircuts until the last min. So now I have been actively looking for another job closer to home. I will take a cut in pay, but I have a bigger cut anyway because of the gas prices and the long distance I drive presently......Groceries are higher. For the first time in years I'm making choices of what I "really need".....We live 15 miles from town, so now I only go when necessary.....
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I hear ya! I need haircut (which I hear you SAW :poke:) and have not gotten it cut...
 
Well tourism is way down here in Alaska, the Motor Homes are pretty far and few between this year. In years past, there were trains of them, now just stragglers here and there.

When I bought this house years ago, (.80 cents a gallon for heating oil ago) the house used 500 gallons of heating oil a month during the colder months of -50 to -60 below zero (December through March).

After a lot of work and triple pane windows, we have it down to about 100 Gallons a month before we fire up the wood stove, which makes it much cheaper... But even that, we are paying about the same as before we did the work... Two steps forward, three back...

To make it to Fairbanks, which is the first town with any services and shopping, it is an 80+- (depending on what part of town) mile trip one way. So we take the smaller car instead of the truck unless we are going to pick up something a bit large.... $100.00 just wets the bottom of the tank I think now.

Regardless, I love where I live! But there is a lot of folks that are having a hard time with gas and heating oil in the area.
 
Were doing more things like making the kids team up with the vehicles. One complained the other night that she might have to wait for a ride for an hour. I told her she had an alternative, That was walk home then. My wife and I work together so we ride together even though our hours are different. I was going to travel to Florida but that won't happen this year.
 
We haven't really changed much at all. But, we go to work, we come home. Not much more than that. And we have that funny little guy that brings food to our door when we call. At least that hasn't gone up. But we tip a little more now days.
 
I'm feeling guilty because every year I go tot Ga. to get a nephew the same age as my son for the whole summer, and this year that ain't happening. I can't afford to let go of the money for gas.
 
We bought 2 Koren rice burners. so far I have forgotten the last time I got gas 2 times............1 tank to work and back lasts about 2 weeks.......3 days in the truck!

hers is even better gas mileage
 
We were planning a trip this summer with the new camper in tow but with the gas being up to $1.40 a litre average here(not sure what that convers to in gallons), the camper I think will be staying put at our seasonal campsite.
 
$1.40 x 3.8+ = about $5.40/gallon
now is that Canadian or American $$, and what's the cuyrrent exchange rate?
 
We have 50+ miles one way to shopping. My car gets about 30 +/- mpg, so it goes unless I need to pull the larger trailer for lumber, etc. We usually shop once a week, or less often if possible. We have been doing it this way for several years. Higher gas prices will limit our travel, but the health of our parents will necessitate monthly 300 mile trips for the wife and at least one 2000 mile trip for me this year.

I think all us regular folks are going to see a less opulent lifestyle as prices climb.
 
I saw on one of the national news shows a man who was converting car engines to run on used veggie oil. And has a waiting list. The down
side the conversion cost $1000.00.
The price increases are hurting a vast number of people working, those
on fixed incomes, truckers, and this econmoy.
So I'll keep on pushing the idea of having the gov. lol fund research
for alternative fuels, and distirbution systems. :whistling::whistling::whistling:
But why have the gov. involed how about a fund from the private sector.
I know we want a quick answer, but these don't seem to last.

Phil
 
nixon said:
I don't know if this will do anything at all to change the price We are paying . But I signed it anyway .
http://www.americansolutions.com/
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I signed it too and sent it out to my email list. You never know...it might help, and doing something while complaining is better than doing nothing while complaining. If we keep applying pressure to congress, they will eventually have to act, or face losing thier seats.

I find it ironic that Democrats purport to represent the working people of America, but their policies hurt the people they claim to represent the most. Think about the people that make about $15 per hour, just to pull a number out of the air. That's 2,600 per month BEFORE TAXES. With these fuel prices, just getting to work has severely hurt these people. Then add up the increased prices of food and consumer goods and pretty soon many people who were on the edge now have a whole lot more month left at the end of their money. The reality is that a lot of folks will have to make choices they were not accustomed to making. For some, it's staying home after work and giving up the movies, and summer vacation. Others will face the choice of filling their gas tank or buying food.

Do you guys think maybe the Democrats see this as an opportunity to force even more people onto the welfare roles? Could they really be that ruthless and evil?
 
Cityboy said:
I find it ironic that Democrats purport to represent the working people of America, but their policies hurt the people they claim to represent the most.

Do you guys think maybe the Democrats see this as an opportunity to force even more people onto the welfare roles? Could they really be that ruthless and evil?
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Yes and Yes. Absolute power corrupts....
 
Cityboy said:
The reality is that a lot of folks will have to make choices they were not accustomed to making. For some, it's staying home after work and giving up the movies, and summer vacation. Others will face the choice of filling their gas tank or buying food.
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You are dead on, what you failed to mention that not only are those guys hurt, the ripple effect of people not going out for dinner, movies and vacations going to be a lot less, the people that work in those industries will be suffering too and cut back.[/quote]

Do you guys think maybe the Democrats see this as an opportunity to force even more people onto the welfare roles? Could they really be that ruthless and evil?
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Yep, it was the Republican party that was started just before Lincoln took office that opposed Slavery where the Democrats were firmly for it. And even now there is some "Ex" Grand Wizards type from the Klan that are still in Congress that are "All" Democrats, yet they have the Black vote because they profess to "Care" more... go figure... I would think that if they had a clue, they would run from the Democrat party at a sprint.

I don't doubt that the Dem's feel that if they can make the country dependent on them, they will control the Country, or in my firm belief, destroy it and our free market economy.

Gas/oil isn't much of a differance, you tax the Oil Companies, they just pass the tax on to us and we pay for it, where is the logic in that where it won't further decay the middle class and lower...
 
Anyone else see that McCain came out and said we should lift the restrictions on drilling off the coast? That is a ray of hope that there is still some common sense left in politics!
 
fogtender said:
You are dead on, what you failed to mention that not only are those guys hurt, the ripple effect of people not going out for dinner, movies and vacations going to be a lot less, the people that work in those industries will be suffering too and cut back.
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Actually I declined to mention the ripple effect because it goes without saying. Common sense also dictates that the business owners who employee these people might just have to lay them off if their position is not absolutly critical to the bottom line of the business. The owner might have to make the tough decision that the $31,200 salary of that Democrat constituant must be spent for fuel in order to keep the business afloat. So, into the waiting arms of the Democrats and the welfare system this person will likely fall. All because of the Democrats and their gutless Republican counterparts who failed to act when they actually controlled the legislature. And yes, the Republicans bear as much responsibility as the Democrats for our current fuel situation. Sometimes I swear I think they conspire together...hell, why else would they be so similar?
 
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