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Livin' the rat roddin' lifestyle
Torchman..thanks for the reply....I'm retired but can't live on SS so I'm starting a pilot car service hoping I can survive.
Torchman..thanks for the reply....I'm retired but can't live on SS so I'm starting a pilot car service hoping I can survive.
Even a week or two wouldn't phase them as they know that right after that we would be lined up for miles to buy the stuff again. Let's face it, we are all in love with driving our cars and although we complain about the price of gas we still don't really curtail any of our driving. We are a nation on wheels and unless you live in small town America where you can walk or bike to run errands you are locked into driving a car.
For those of us who were of driving age during the "gas crunches" in the 70's, you will remember how frantic we were thinking we would never see the stuff again..........we were like drug addicts, looking for that next fix. People would come in from lunch and announce that they had found a station who was pumping gas and we would all pour out the door to go sit in line........every man for himself. I saw fist fights, wrecks, and a pretty ugly side of people who were stressed over not being able to get gas.
I just filled up my tank the other day with hitest at $ 3.89 x 20, and that will last me about a week. It is a real hit to the wallet, but not nearly as bad as some folks in other parts of the world, like England, where it is over $ 10 a gallon. ( I can't even begin to imagine a $ 200 fill up )
What is funny is that when I was just out of high school in 63 I pumped gas for a living for a while and there was a gas war going on. I saw the prices drop to 19.9 cents a gallon, and a buddy of mine who had a Vette in 64 with the optional big tank was outraged because it took $ 5.00 to fill it up. Oh, how times have changed.
Don
Regular is $115.7 a litre here today, every middle of the month (15th) and last day is always the only day it can change in price here.
So today's the 14th, so at midnight tonight it will change...... Ge, ya think it's gonna go down?.................not likely!!!!!! I like your idea of not buying on the 15th of April, but don't know if it will change anything, cause folks will buy before or after.Brian
Not driving is different than not buying..... cutting back on fuel usage is the key but.....in this plan the key word would be EVERYONE....and you would not be able to get most of the country / fuel consumers to do it..... JMHODon, Sgt.P - Maybe it's a sign og my Grey hair as I made the assumtion that Not buying & Not driving go together.
Yes, just not buying would matter for one day. However everyone NOT DRIVING
would be a major hit, concider this:
"How much gasoline does the United States consume per year?
In 2009, the United States consumed about 137.93 billion gallons (or 3.28 billion barrels) of gasoline, a daily average of about 388 million gallons (8.99 million barrels). This was 3% less than the record high of about 142.35 billion gallons (or 3.39 billion barrels) consumed in 2007.
Annual gasoline consumption data
Last updated: February 24, 2011"
http://www.eia.doe.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=23&t=10
Not driving is different than not buying..... cutting back on fuel usage is the key but.....in this plan the key word would be EVERYONE....and you would not be able to get most of the country / fuel consumers to do it..... JMHO
They know it is killing the economy that is why i have to believe it is done purposefully.
Not disagreeing with you , but do you have any facts to back this statement up ? Why would they do that . I guess the key word here is "they" , which they are you talking about .
A bad economy hurts almost everyone.
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