Posted on 07/27/2013 3:42:24 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Just took a tour of the west. Yellowstone, Black Hills, New Mexico.
Average price for gas was $3.99. 88 octane. I did not trust the 85 octane as here I use 87 octane.
When you only work 29 hours a week, you have 11 extra hours that you can use to take the bus.
Why are people driving less?
1. $4/gal
2. No job to go to
3. Mom provides a basement, but not a car & mom buys the groceries for everyone
4. No job = no money to vacation
5. Crappy little cars are no fun to cruise in
6. Gays don’t cruise for chicks, they just go to the bath house
7. Most people sleep in on Sunday mornings now instead of going to church
Yesterday we did take two of our grand kids to the Rennerdale PA Duck Pond one of the few places worth the 5 mile drive.
the roads are crappier than ever. more taxes going to union freaking pensions and healthcare than infrastructure. so much for ‘public servants’. never were supposed to get rich and have cadilac plans and never worry about being fired.
My daughter gets her toilet paper online with Amazon shop and save - comparable with Sams or Costco. If you have five items in a shipment, you save 20%, no shipping. Of course, for us, Costco is a mile away. We even get our gas there.
When I was young we thought nothing of throwing a bag in the trunk and driving hundreds of miles for a week at the beach or in the mountains. It’s too expensive now for working people, let alone young jobless kids - gas is too high, any place fit to stay in or to visit costs too much. Those of us who are working are either working long hours in our full time job or working two or more part time jobs, so no time to go on a trip anyway. Rich folk fly to their vacations - so
Hate to throw a wet(beach)blanket on the subject. . but it isn’t only the unfit places to stay, it is the beaches as well. I know someone who almost died when the surf got into an existing cut on the arm. Bacteria galore!
The black box will proved the regime that info, as soon as next year if Im not mistaken.
They’re driving less because gasoline and diesel costs more.
That leads to less money spent on fewer things that are not fuel — not merely because of avoided costs by not driving there, but also because transporting the goods, which obviously includes food, costs more, and retailers don’t print money either.
!5%, 20%, 30%? -- Where do you think it is?
If they ever invent holodecks like on Star Trek, civilization will come to an end.
But think of the money that one will be able to make doing clean-up for the mess after people use the holodeck. ...and you thought stepping in sticky soda in the movie theater was a bitch.
I can’t believe they got Stewart to do that.
He seems to enjoy it.
He has a recurring character on McFarlene’s other cartoon “American Dad”, a Deputy CIA director who is basically a crazy pervert.
If we're out of milk somebody didn't do their chores. Dairy cow and goats, hogs and chickens. Not to mention tending the garden.
Let the cities burn the zombies will have to go a long way through some country folks to get to me. We go to town maybe once a month.
“...civilization will come to an end.”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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