Posted on 01/17/2011 4:39:59 PM PST by grey_whiskers
>>It doesn’t matter how much you give them, they always want more.
Unfortunately, that’s not limited to liberals. I agree with you about idiotic light rail and cable car scheme. All we need are good bus systems that travel are practical for passengers that need to get somewhere (like...WORK and school!) and lots of bike paths that also go someplace. Unfortunately, citty planners usually make the mass transit run nowhere, or it requires a two hour bus ride to take a trip that would take 20 minutes by car. And bike paths alway seem to go nowhere. They are always designed for a scenic ride and never for practical use. But they always claim that just another $100M will give us something practical, but you’ll have to pass it to see what you’re getting.
Thanks grey_whiskers. I’d drive less. No doubt about it. For a while I’d got my driving down to a tank every three weeks. During the summer it started to creep up to weekly, and is currently in the area of two weeks. With the Alaska pipeline flowing again prices will come down some, but I think I’ll get back to my three weeks.
And it was only going to cost $500,000,000. That is, until the obligatory cost overruns start, and then you can double...or triple...or quadruple that figure. No thanks.
Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008
Total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%
Anyone seen more recent stats?
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$5/gas ,, I remember $4 gas ... my customers (businesses) would lose so much business that I would take a huge hit also ... I’d have to cut way back on expenses.
:’) When gas was $4, diesel was $5; back when OPEC embargoed and drove the gasoline from 40-50 cents to $1.50 basically overnight, diesel stayed low for a long while. The leftist dipwads said that there’d be plenty of gasoline if it were made instead of making diesel, blaming the oil companies of course. We’d have been much better off going forward had we just taken them all out and strung them up in 1974. Figuratively of course.
Are ya getting it yet? Nobody will riot against this. The elites will put you all in rickshaws because you are to lazy to revolt. America shouldn't but it will deserve the outcome.
When last this inflation barrage happened three winters ago, I switched to bicycle commuting, found less expensive grocery stores, lowered indoor temperature during winter, and later moved closer to work. I now drive the car only rarely. These accommodations help me keep spending under control. I continue to seek new mechanisms to trim spending, although I may be called to undertake a more ascetic lifestyle.
It would really be the fault of whoever did not get any oil/revenues from Iraq.
What kind of a revolution do you have in mind?
If gas was about $5 a gallon in the US I’m guessing it would be up around the $2.50-$2.75 a litre mark in NZ (it’s already at $2 a litre now)
I have two sources of income- one of them allows me to earn good money from home, and I only have to walk 5 minutes down the road to another part time job, which I basically work for petrol and food money.
Therefore as I don’t have to commute to earn money I wouldn’t be too badly affected. However, you do have to feel sorry (well perhaps not so much sorry as a kind of ‘haha told you so’ feeling) for all those people who moved out of convenient houses in town and into huge artificially created suburbs about 30-40 minutes drive away, just to have a massive house that still doesn’t have a big garden for growing food etc.
At that price I’d get back on the 250cc motorbike for all traveling that I need to do by myself- fewer nutters on the road in their done up Jap racer cars means less chance of being squashed.
When petrol prices were at their record 2.5 years ago most families sold their bigger v6 and v8 sedans and trucks, as well as turbo sports sedans and unnecessary cars, and bought crummy little eco boxes. The price of these bigger cars plummeted and you could get them for nicks- it was worked out that the average family would actually save money by buying a v8 and driving it carefully.
Does anyone else think the current price rises are a bubble, and that it could all come crashing down again?
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