Dick A
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topflite51 wrote:Just last week, a Senate committee voted to block any extraction of oil from shale in Colorado. In essence, they voted to make your trips to the gas station more expensive, to make air travel more expensive, to make heating or cooling your home more expensive, and to make your food more expensive. Just what are they thinking? Or are they even thinking? They are thinking we, the small people, should pay the toll while they, the entitled and anointed, deserve a free ride on the tax payers back.
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Dick A wrote:topflite51 wrote:Just last week, a Senate committee voted to block any extraction of oil from shale in Colorado. In essence, they voted to make your trips to the gas station more expensive, to make air travel more expensive, to make heating or cooling your home more expensive, and to make your food more expensive. Just what are they thinking? Or are they even thinking? They are thinking we, the small people, should pay the toll while they, the entitled and anointed, deserve a free ride on the tax payers back.
We do have a choice - vote them out the next time they are up for re-election.
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gotta go
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A little flashback here - bought my first "RV" ('79 Chev Camper Special w/camper) in '79 and saw the gas prices go up to $.78 gallon. Thought that was too much and made me wish I didn't have my 12 mpg truck. Well, just sold the Chevy last summer and have a bigger truck with a '30 TT. Need to suck it up and realize all the imported products we buy is making other countries hungry for petroleum and agricultural products. Are the oil companies taking advantage of us - DUH.... Something should be done but...Went to Costco yesterday to fill up my truck - the pump cut me off at $99.00, now I am mad!!!
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gotta go wrote:=ut...Went to Costco yesterday to fill up my truck - the pump cut me off at $99.00, now I am mad!!!
Yeah, some pumps cut off at $100, some at $75, some even at $50. Last summer we went to Texas and it was like sand thrown in your face. Sometimes I'd have to re-insert the card or even go in and have it reset. Credit card companies use it as a safeguard against thieves stealing a card and going into the gas business selling $10 fillups. Still, it really makes you take note that you're buying over two hundred dollars worth of gas (in a class a with 75 gallons).
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Bucky Badger
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Dear oil company. Oil dropped in price on Wednesday and Thursday. I know you have been busy counting your money, but can you adjust prices accordingly.
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eltejano1
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Quote:...Went to Costco yesterday to fill up my truck - the pump cut me off at $99.00, now I am mad!!!
That's why we quit travelling! It was just so depressing filling-up the truck every morning that it took all the fun out of the trip.
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gotta go wrote:A little flashback here - bought my first "RV" ('79 Chev Camper Special w/camper) in '79 and saw the gas prices go up to $.78 gallon. Thought that was too much and made me wish I didn't have my 12 mpg truck. Well, just sold the Chevy last summer and have a bigger truck with a '30 TT. Need to suck it up and realize all the imported products we buy is making other countries hungry for petroleum and agricultural products. Are the oil companies taking advantage of us - DUH.... Something should be done but...Went to Costco yesterday to fill up my truck - the pump cut me off at $99.00, now I am mad!!!
The point is...
Is it easier or more difficult for you to pay todays fuel price or the seventy eight cents per gallon?
Why are you not complaining about the price difference between your present truck and the truck that you bought in the seventies?
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sirdrakejr
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Yesterday someone said that if the price of fuel had kept up with inflation we would be paying about $5.86 a gallon now. So according to that person, we are getting away cheap. Remember that the next time you pump in $125 worth of diesel.![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
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AO_hitech
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sirdrakejr wrote:Yesterday someone said that if the price of fuel had kept up with inflation we would be paying about $5.86 a gallon now.
The only problem is that they are wrong. It's more like 1.89...
But, it depends on what price/date you start with. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
Edit: Sorry, the price of gas in 1970 adjusted for inflation would be $1.483. Source:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/statistics/gasoline_cpi_adjusted.html
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eltejano1
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The most meaningful stat on this subject is how long you had to work to buy ten gals of gas then and today. As a painter, I was making $12/hr in the 70's and could commute for a week (25-30 miles/day) with an hours work. Today, scale for a journeyman painter in Houston is about $18/hr and I doubt many could run their work vehicle for a week on an hour's work anymore.
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