eltejano1
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I gotta go to supper right now, Mr Jimbo - I'll get back with ya when I get up about 3:00 AM - after I recover from my drunken stupor! :-) :-)
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rshidler
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I have to agree with eltejano1 ... I've said it many times that as long as people continue to use gas for things other than work, getting food and seeking medical care then gas prices are not yet too high.
I have reduced my consumption but can certainly do more. I have acquired a seasonal site so I'm not pulling the 5er down the road ... But I'm still driving the car to the seasonal site 23 miles from home. This is not work, food or medical care and therefore not essential.
My 16 year old daughter drives her car (Chevy Metro at 30+ mpg) to work at McDonalds. This is work but not essential work. She's working only so she can have some money to go shopping! More non-essential driving.
If you drive to the movies, bar, restaurant, dance hall, amusement park, little league ballgame, hunting spot, fishing hole, poker game at a buddy's house, bowling alley, concert, etc. (I think you get my drift) then gas is not too high.
Big Oil is a for-profit organization. They are not a charitable organization. Making 8%-10% profit is not unrealistic.
Bottom line: Get over yourself, get off your high horse and deal with reality. If you want to play, you gotta pay! Can't pay? Don't play.
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mrjimboalaska
Abilene, Tx. at the moment
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eltejano1 wrote:Well, maybe I'm wrong then. I know the people I see around my neighborhood would have no problem at all cutting 50% of consumption - they won't put their kids on the schoolbus because only "poor people" ride the schoolbus! Stuff like that.
Jack
Jack,
You bring up another point....School Buses....actually, we live in a desired school district and neighborhood. I do see exactly what you said about the mom's dirving the kids to school. The reasoning for the 2 moms I know that do drop off and pick up(and they stay at home like me) is that the kids get on the bus 1 hour before school. Upside is they are the first to be dropped off.
My kids ride the bus! I rode a bus when I was there age, or buddy, DAD kicked my butt for 1/4 mile down the dirt road, and I showed up at school 1 hour late. Course, I started riding my motorbike when I was 12, licenced at 14......farming life is rough, that's why I went to College after HS......
How much Emergency Cash Bonds will we see popping up, just due to Fuel Costs of running our School Bus's, Law Enforcement, and EMS Vehicles????? Do you really think that they will absorb a 100% ++++
cost increase??? ALL BECAUSE WE WONT PUMP OUR OWN OIL...
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mrjimboalaska
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You know, I see your 16 yr old working and driving as essential.
You are beginning to teach her "Real World" economics. BEFORE she is on her own, you can help guide her. She see's taxes coming out of her check (REALITY). Teach her to save 10% of everything she makes...for retirement, starting NOW...the rest, teaches her how to budget.
Kudo's to you, I see so many people today that say "My kid" doesn't have to work, then there kids struggle more than needed once on their own.
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trac209
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trac209 wrote:Skid Row Joe wrote:trac209 wrote:Skid Row Joe wrote:trac209 wrote:try paying the almost 6 bucks we pay in canada for a country that sells you oil for cheaper the we sell it to ourselves. That's to pay for your almost free healthcare, we don't get it free in America. that has nothing to do with health care sir Socialized medicine's costs have everything to do with taxes paid at the pump and everywhere else in Canada, sir.
At $6.00 a gallon, you've got the bargain of a lifetime for free healthcare. Some people think everything is free. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/grin.gif "grin") what on earth are you talking about? our government is supposed to use the money from gas taxes for the roads not heath care. do you live in canada ? heath care comes from income tax not fuel. we have have had free heath care long before gas was 6.00 a gallon so where did the money come from then. please get your facts right please. in the same token i could cry and say pretty much everything we buy up in canada is more expensive for canadians then in the U.S . btw i'm not some people i'm canadian
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Skid Row Joe
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I don't know of any "poor people" that have jobs and own RVs, drive multiple cars & trucks, ATVs, toys, boats, fuel 'em all up, and live in homes, have computers, cable-satellite TV, and don't go to bed hungry at night.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/scratchead.gif "scratchead")
Maybe those poor people, are different than the ones I know of. There must be more than fuel prices, fueling that thought process......
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AO_hitech
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rshidler wrote:Big Oil is a for-profit organization. They are not a charitable organization. Making 8%-10% profit is not unrealistic.
Big Oil is NOT making 8%-10% profit. The price of oil has doubled while their costs have not increased any significent amount. Remember, I'm not talking about the price of gas, but of oil. Big Oil is making a killing!
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Skid Row Joe
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Big Oil is making very low margins, versus their expended capital.
Find another boogie-man.......oil companies ain't it.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/rolleyes.gif "rolleyes")
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crudeman
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AO_hitech wrote:rshidler wrote:Big Oil is a for-profit organization. They are not a charitable organization. Making 8%-10% profit is not unrealistic.
Big Oil is NOT making 8%-10% profit. The price of oil has doubled while their costs have not increased any significent amount. Remember, I'm not talking about the price of gas, but of oil. Big Oil is making a killing!
Oh you can bet their costs have increased as well. Depending on the refiner and the size etc of the refinery their energy costs goes right along with the spike in oil prices.
still waiting on that fine from the bakersfield refinery over the anit-trust law violations you mentioned earlier, or did I miss something?
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Sea Dog
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I am older,72, than most here.
It is amusing to read those who say they cannot cut back.
Most people under fifty have no clue how things were a few short years ago.
My cousin, after school, got a job as secretary in a neighboring town.
She had to rent a room out of her thirty five dollar a week salary and only come home weekends, the reason, her parents thought it was too far and too expensive to drive her to work and back every day.
Oh yeah, did I tell you how far this job was from her home?
EIGHT MILES!!!
When the situation returns to that level, which it looks like it may, then we will see about cutting down..
Until then dropping an RV trip from a thousand miles to five hundred is not cutting down.
Life is short,Death is long,
Take a vacation.
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