Are Gas Prices Keeping you Home?
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Last night when my daughter filled her gas tank, the cost was $3.92 per gallon for regular Unleaded. This morning on her way to my house, she passed the same gas station. The gas had jumped overnight to $4.22 per gallon. That’s right… thirty cents overnight. I know some of you are boo-hooing me right now, because your prices have been well over the $4.00 mark for awhile now. However, keep in mind the very small community we live in. The cost of living here is less, yes. We also (on average) make less than you do, often doing the same jobs.
This post isn’t intended for me to whine about our gas price here in town. It’s more of a general whine for us all. It’s summertime. We’re supposed to be heading off on vacations, day trips, beaches, and visits with friends and relatives. Nearly all of my friends and family are staying home this summer, ALL summer. Not only has the cost of car gasoline hiked up, everything has hiked up as a result. Food is more expensive. Utilities are more expensive. The price of everything is climbing, and many people are barely keeping their heads above water financially. Many people have already sunk, before they really even had a chance to grab for a life jacket.
Gone are the summers of piling into the family car and driving several states away to visit a beach or Yellowstone Park. No longer do we see little kids thrilled to make a long-awaited trip to Disneyland. Most middle-class families simply cannot afford these things now.
The saddest part of all, is that none of has “the answer”. We have people all over the country attempting to figure out economic solutions to save us from a Depression. Wait, what? Did I just say “Depression”? Surely, I’m going completely overboard, right?
I’m not so sure I am anymore. Are you?
9 Comments
the oracle
June 12th, 2008
at 7:39pm
Whether economically constrained or not, people should be using less gas, drastically less - not simply as a green initiative, but as a revolt against the sudden overpricing of a commodity product
teddgcm
June 12th, 2008
at 8:46pm
Depression? Well, I’m not so sure about that. What I am sure about is the fact that the gas prices will never go down, at least not significantly, until the government steps in and holds the oil companies accountable. The oil companies have gotten a taste of the higher profits and they will not give them up without a fight. The government has opened up several million acres in the Gulf for oil production, but that will take years to produce and start to make any kind of dent. Untill then, I’m staying home much more than I used to.
Mats
June 13th, 2008
at 2:56am
If I have been calculated and converted right, gallon to liters and dollar to swedish krona I figure out that you pay less than half what we pay for gas over here and we still do vacations
Another tip is that you don’t have to drive pick ups, SUVs and other cars that love gas or why not buy a bike. Than you will meet lot nice bikers as well.
Have a nice summer
Love from Sweden
Bob Perry
June 13th, 2008
at 10:19am
Here in the UK, fuel is 1.39GBP per Litre - thats over 10USD for a gallon! Its a good thing that UK cars do over 30mpg as standard!
Steve
June 13th, 2008
at 12:30pm
Take a look at GasBankUSA. This is a website that talks about fixed price gasoline and locking in a price, so even if gas goes up, you are still locked in at a fixed price. Here is the website, http://www.gasbankusa.com
Armando Barreiro
June 13th, 2008
at 12:35pm
Why should any business in a free economy be made out to be the culprit of a world economy or for making a profit?
Quit your BS about socializing America, will ya?
If you can’t hack it move to France or any other country where as a tax payer you will have pay for what I consume whenever I feel like not carrying my own weight nor meeting my responsiblities and where electricity is generated in nuclear plants.
Better yet, move to Tibet and tell us how it feels to have the government make all the choices for you, like it or not, while the rest of the world does nothing to protect your human rights. Oops, after being shot and dying you have none, sorry, my mistake.
It was the damned regulations and the tax burdens that forced me to choose to close my business in 1990. Perhaps if I had remained in business long enough I would’ve gotten a break from the new tax reforms that were instituted since then. Instead, 20 individuals had to find another venue to support themselves and those who depended on them.
I’ll be danged if I’m going to work for free so that others can be better off.
Socialism is NOT the American way, else we’d be in the bottom rung too.
Why do you suppose every tom, dick and harriet wants to live in America?
I wear the flag pin, I don’t want to change my country because I know what it is like to live elsewhere and I’ve always been proud to be an American nor have I changed my given name either.
The hairs in your leg will never tingle up and down whenever you’re in my presence, but neither have I ever been part of any religious congregation where Farrakhan was exulted and where my country, America, was regularly damned by my pastor and associates.
As far as saving gas, as a business person I learned early on that “a penny save is a penny earned”, therefor ain’t (SIC) nobody ever tried to be “greener” than I am for I have NEVER even used a clothes drier if a clothesline was available.
Armando
E2001
June 14th, 2008
at 6:10pm
Right now, I’m in the market for a good bicycle trailer.
Ryan Thompson
June 15th, 2008
at 12:28pm
We will never see gas prices decline! Once oil hit 100 dollars a barrel that signaled the end of 2-3.00 dollar a gallon gasoline. What we may see if we wisen up and open our country to exploration and drilling is the price of gas stabelize. But the best side of US energy exploration is the growth that it would occur in our economy. More and better paying jobs in regions that are in desperate need of a boost would squash our current recesion and bring about great growth. Even better would be the weakness that our energy independence would bring to the countries that are now taking advantage of our energy needs. US energy independence would truly allow us to pull out of the Middle East which would give many of the terriorist exactly what they believe they want an end to US medeling.
Mats
June 17th, 2008
at 1:55am
Wake up Armando, you are allready in the bottom rung.