I am stickin to my $3.50 a gal…any more than that I am riding the motorcycle to work.
Come on if it hits 5.00 a gal you can’t tell me people aren’t gonna stop drivin around aimlessly. Unless you are bringin a ton a cash a month there is no possible way people can afford that rate hike. Its gotta drop sooner or later and if it doesn’t we need to pull the heads out of our asses and start being self sufficient. And this stops with exporting our shit to mexico so they can sell it back 5x the price.
Who said anything about aimlessly??
Let’s think about that statement “they have us by the balls” for a moment.
Are you allowed to have a still in your backyard? Mind you, not for medicinal purposes, but for vehiclular use? Even with a 40-50 MPG 3cyl 1.0 L Geo Metro, could you produce enough fuel to do what needed to be done with the occasional fuel station stop to splash up?
How about electric? You gotta plug that thing in somewhere. Solar panels? Wind/turbine? Geothermal-pump-to-electric?
I forgot the most important part of all this. We are continully forced into and caddle-herded into skyscrapers and “filing cabinet” apartment dwellings and have public transportation forced upon us?
I guess they do…unless you can get off the grid.
I guess I (one of the 5 stupid motherfuckers) will just either:
a) quit my job
b) bicycle 25 miles to work
c) ride the imaginary bus from where I live
d) car pool with the imaginary people that go to the same place as me
e) uproot my family and move closer to work
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It really does not matter what the price goes to. I cannot just quit my job and stop driving because gas prices are high.
What other option is there? there ain’t, fucking deal with it. gas prices are going up and will continue to go up and there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it.
If only it was that easy… I have a 14 mile drive to work… and I could probably ride my bicycle to and from work, however, to me that seems rediculous with the winter on its way, and the way some people drive on the roads I’d take there. I would certainly end up dead by February. PLUS, if I get this job down on McKnight Rd. there is NO WAY I am riding a bicycle down anywhere near there.
So me like everyone else will continue to pay for gasoline no matter how much I bitch and moan about it.
jackedup is funny too… maybe too much :shaggy: making him think we’re all corporate lemmings using gasoline… 
but in reality the options to make your own fuel are out there… no doubt… but trying to get / make a car to run on solar energy or ac/dc power isn’t logical… i don’t know many people with hydrogen at home to ‘adapt’ their vechiles to alternate fuels
but the REALITY of using those alternate fuels is to cowboy up and buy a diesel… you can easily, or more easily than the adaptation of alternate fuels to a common car, convert to soy power or corn oil for example.
you can get a vw TDI and 3500 bucks and you can have it running off waste grease from fast food places…
problem is finding places that will give you their waste grease…
there are options… but alas, i could care less… i blow money on a ton of shit that i could budget out to pay more for gas if i had to
I work 5 doors up the road. I think i can walk
i remember 87cents a gallon like around 98, my dad told me to remember that cause i’d never see it again. my dad sold gas for years and he said that gas never really went up with the cost of everything else. The problem is now it has gone up but its done so in a drastic manner that people didn’t have time to work it in their budgets. I spent way to much in gas last week in my SS. like $80. My cars are going to stay pretty much parked for the next two weeks.
In my case there will be a point that the cost of gas will cut into my take home so much it would be more economical for me to quit my job here on the other side of the city and just work retail up here close to home in the north hills. Daily commute uses 1/8 tank of gas…and its $35/tank which lasts me about a week x 5 weeks, thats like $175 on gas at we’ll say 2.50. Now double that assuming $5/gal that would be about $350/mon on gas…Now I dont know about any of you but my pay doesnt double with the cost of gas I’m fucked. I’d have to give up all entertainment/food/drink money and be on Pittspeed all day, all night…not saying that would suck but ya gotta stunt sometimes.
Personally Im pissed off that prices are not regulated and theres nothing we can do about it except cut throat and take over the world, then maybe the prces will go down
yep…thats exactly how i feel
oh my unintelligent friend…you couldnt be sooo wrong
1st. The reason that the gas is so high is simply not enough supply for the demand. a) China and India and purchasing tons more crude than they did in the past (b) whack-job environmentalists are blocking new refineries from being built (c) if the new refineries would be built they would be more efficient than the ancient refineries that are processing the crude now
2nd. The argument that everyone should go Hybrid…a) you see the price of a hybrid vehicle, yea pretty damn expensive and it is a poor investment because when you approach the 100k mile marker, you have to replace the batteries…rough estimate to replace the batteries, i have heard $8k, so make a more cost efficient vehicle
3rd. Global warming — 1 statement only — oh my god the temperature has gone up in the past 100 years from the average…well ill the billlion chinese all breathe out at the same time, im sure that the temperature might raise!
So you’re saying…Hiroshima 2?
Hiroshima is in Japan Be_Rad… not China.
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dude we need to hang out more often. :bigthumb: #1 is so on the mark its not even funny
Listen Mr. Geography…I was making an analogy referring to course of action, nuking in particular…take 2 giant steps off my nuts, do not pass go, do not collect $200. k. thnx. bye.
I voted that I will drive regardless of cost. Mainly because I don’t drive very far (3 - 5 miles to either job), and I don’t have any other means of transportation (yet). Mike has been taking his bike to work when he can. Not sure if it’s because of the gas mileage, or because he likes to ride the bike, but who cares? Also, there are no bus stops near my main place of employment.
Now, if I had a 25 mile drive to work one-way, I would probably change my tone, but with my current situation, I will drive to where I need to go, period.
no im just saying a 100 years ago there wasnt the same amount of people on the Earth…not just in China, i was just using that as an example
thank you sir