# gas gonna go back up next week? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 1, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976 "2006-11-01T11:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bgblockelcamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bgblockelcamino/32/5997_2.png) [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/21 "2006-11-02T08:39:06Z")
> [@do it urself paint](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-it-urself-paint/25530/8): > > talk to bgblockelcamino and his dad… they owned a gas stations for a long time. They will tell you about the patterns in gas prices. > > after memorial day they go up… magically around labor day they go down. Demand goes up in the summer tru, but I can’t imagine it changes so drastically that it would really put a decrease in supply. yep tthis trend has been the same for a long time. my dad opened his first gas station in either 1959 or 1960. So yes this is nothing new. If you are on the gas subject what about the reformulated crap!!! i am sure you get just as good of gas mileage with that garbage in the summer time and pay more for it? so while the hippie tree huggers are worried about natural resources and pushed for reformulated gas they ended up fucking themselves. ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/22 "2006-11-02T08:42:47Z")
> [@do it urself paint](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-it-urself-paint/25530/5): > > I can’t believe some of the political babble. The repubs attack Casey for offering gov benefits to illegal aliens, what a douchebag. Then Casey comes back, busting on Santorum for voting against the min wage for “hard working Pennsylvanians.” Who is the last hard-working individiual you know that earns min-wage? A higher min wage just takes away jobs for high-school kids and forces stores to have less workers, so they can afford to pay the ones they keep. And these morons think it will help the economy. Why don’t we just have a min starting salary for college grads, while we’re at it. That should help. Anyone who earns minimum wage should be against raising it, because their jobs will be the first ones to get axed, when companies are forced to pay more for the same crappy labor. keep drinking the kool-aid. you come up with that yourself, or did you crib that from hannity’s rhetoric? The minimum wage has been $5.15/hr for almost ten years. The price of EVERYTHING has gone up in the past ten years. If they linked the minimum wage to the consumer price index (like Oregon), we’d have small annual wage increases, which would work better for everyone. $5.15/hour @ 40 hours/week = $892/month BEFORE taxes (assuming no vacations or sick days), and shit jobs rarely come with benefits. ---
**Author:** ![Hycomp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Hycomp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hycomp)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/23 "2006-11-02T09:32:04Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/25533/7): > > keep drinking the kool-aid. you come up with that yourself, or did you crib that from hannity’s rhetoric? > > The minimum wage has been $5.15/hr for almost ten years. The price of EVERYTHING has gone up in the past ten years. If they linked the minimum wage to the consumer price index (like Oregon), we’d have small annual wage increases, which would work better for everyone. > > $5.15/hour @ 40 hours/week = $892/month BEFORE taxes (assuming no vacations or sick days), and shit jobs rarely come with benefits. Damn near anyone working for only minimum wage is there by choice/lack of motivation/laziness. Hell even fast food pays better than minimum wage from quite a number of examples I have seen. ---
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/24 "2006-11-02T09:35:03Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/25533/7): > > keep drinking the kool-aid. you come up with that yourself, or did you crib that from hannity’s rhetoric? Who do you know that actually works hard, and still gets paid min wage? There is no min salary, some people get straight commission, work 40-60hrs/wk and don’t get paid at all for a while. Life’s not fair, if you want to make more money, you have to freaking work. > [@do it urself paint](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-it-urself-paint/25530/12): > > Damn near anyone working for only minimum wage is there by choice/lack of motivation/laziness. Hell even fast food pays better than minimum wage… ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/25 "2006-11-02T09:35:25Z")
I wonder what would happen if there was no mandated minimum wage. Would there be places that would pay $2/hr? Would anyone work for it? Would things balance out on there own, and at what level? :dunno: ---
**Author:** ![cleanquick306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cleanquick306](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cleanquick306)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/26 "2006-11-02T09:36:52Z")
> [@do it urself paint](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-it-urself-paint/25530/12): > > Damn near anyone working for only minimum wage is there by choice/lack of motivation/laziness. Hell even fast food pays better than minimum wage from quite a number of examples I have seen. :doh: if minimum wage was where it should be, most entry level positions at most companies would go up as well, i would imagine so anyway ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/27 "2006-11-02T09:36:54Z")
> [@do it urself paint](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-it-urself-paint/25530/12): > > Damn near anyone working for only minimum wage is there by choice/lack of motivation/laziness. Hell even fast food pays better than minimum wage from quite a number of examples I have seen. depends where you are. the unemployment rate in mississippi is almost 9%. when supply (workers), exceeds demand (jobs), value decreases (workers get paid as little as possible). that $7/hour McJob in Wexford might be a $5.15/hr McJob in Biloxi. ---
**Author:** ![Pewter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pewter/32/5936_2.png) [@Pewter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pewter)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/28 "2006-11-02T09:38:12Z")
gas went up here in MP 5 cents since yesturday ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/29 "2006-11-02T09:39:17Z")
> [@Tire Size question](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tire-size-question/25534/9): > > Who do you know that actually works hard, and still gets paid min wage? No one. But I know plenty of people who bust their ass for not much more. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/30 "2006-11-02T09:40:58Z")
> [@WTB: high flow cat](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-high-flow-cat/25517/10): > > I wonder what would happen if there was no mandated minimum wage. Would there be places that would pay $2/hr? Would anyone work for it? Would things balance out on there own, and at what level? :dunno: no things wouldn’t balance out… migrant workers illegal & legal often work for less then minimum. people pay them less because they can… just like raising gas prices because they can. i’m so sick of the BS…just come out & say we are charging you $3 because we want to. ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/31 "2006-11-02T09:42:07Z")
> [@WTB: high flow cat](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-high-flow-cat/25517/10): > > I wonder what would happen if there was no mandated minimum wage. Would there be places that would pay $2/hr? Would anyone work for it? Would things balance out on there own, and at what level? :dunno: things would eventually even out. But what rate is welfare? Can people do nothing and get by, why work? ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/32 "2006-11-02T09:46:30Z")
> [@Tire Size question](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tire-size-question/25534/13): > > things would eventually even out. negaitve ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/33 "2006-11-02T09:48:20Z")
> [@i got punked](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-got-punked/25482/72): > > negaitve why not? ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/34 "2006-11-02T09:50:38Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/25533/10): > > why not? there are more workers than jobs. pay rates go down, widening the gulf between the worker and the owner. further polarising our class system. ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/35 "2006-11-02T09:56:56Z")
> [@ShalerPunk"](#): > > there are more workers than jobs. > > pay rates go down, widening the gulf between the worker and the owner. > > further polarising our class system. but half of the eligible workers don’t want to work and won’t work no matter how much they make. The companies would probably lower the rates to get workers but would go back up because people can’t work for $2/hour and still live. ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/36 "2006-11-02T10:01:04Z")
> [@Well, somebody had to do it......](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/well-somebody-had-to-do-it/25481/97): > > but half of the eligible workers don’t want to work and won’t work no matter how much they make. “half?” source for statistic? > [@Well, somebody had to do it......](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/well-somebody-had-to-do-it/25481/97): > > The companies would probably lower the rates to get workers but would go back up because people can’t work for $2/hour and still live. lol. i would say that most people making less than $10/hr live paycheck-to-paycheck as it is. one month at $2/hr could cost them everything. if what i made was reduced by 50%, i could keep my car and apartment, but i’d have to quit eating. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/37 "2006-11-02T10:03:47Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/25533/10): > > why not? ready my esrlier post…because there people who will work for less them minimum cause thats the only job they can get. back to GAS!! ---
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/38 "2006-11-02T10:12:22Z")
People could work or more than min-wage, but it’s easier to stay on welfare. We don’t need to pass out any more money. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/39 "2006-11-02T10:15:27Z")
> [@If you could have anyone build you a car...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-you-could-have-anyone-build-you-a-car/25439/52): > > People could work or more than min-wage, but it’s easier to stay on welfare. We don’t need to pass out any more money. wake up there are people who work for less then minimum & are not on welfare. ---
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976/40 "2006-11-02T10:16:57Z")
> [@\*NEW\* Lotus Exige GT3](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-lotus-exige-gt3/25522/27): > > there are people who work for less then minimum & are not on welfare. These people work in the food industry, and they get paid a lot of tips, which aren’t taxed. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gas-gonna-go-back-up-next-week/185976.md?page=3)