As gas prices creep above $4 a gallon, what are you thinking?
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I'm thinking that anyone who is complaining about this is:
a) making peanuts
b) voting for Hillary
a) making peanuts
b) voting for Hillary
I think since most of us drive less than 0 miles to work we should not be bitching. Plus we can see that gas prices will keep rising - so put up a few more sites to pay for it now.
While your neighbors are struggling you just keep pretending your a bad ass drug dealer who sits on his ass and has a full tank
*serious*
I'm more concerned with the food raising - I buy a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk every single day. I spend more of freaking milk than most of you spend on gasFeeding 6 1/2 (my sister stays with us about half the time) people has gotten pretty expensive. I know if I was on a fixed income it would hurt....
Can't conserve food - gotta eat. I'm sure a lot of people with low incomes are REALLY hurting right now.
Holy shit! I feed myself and my dog, and that's expensive -- couldn't imagine feed 6 other mouths.
Yeah it's on my desktop now. $100k might be worth the investment for no gas and barely any parts to maintain/repair. Although if something does break down, I can see it being very costly.
With gas at $4/gallon and filling my tank about once a week (yeah I work from home but I have a life), that's $2,300/year about for gas. The extra $80,000 or so I'd have to pay after selling my car would make it take around 35 years to pay off on JUST gas savings. Now how long will the car last? 35 years we're talking over 400,000 miles on the sucker...I imagine it wouldn't last that long.
It does look amazing though so it's a tossup...
With gas at $4/gallon and filling my tank about once a week (yeah I work from home but I have a life), that's $2,300/year about for gas. The extra $80,000 or so I'd have to pay after selling my car would make it take around 35 years to pay off on JUST gas savings. Now how long will the car last? 35 years we're talking over 400,000 miles on the sucker...I imagine it wouldn't last that long.
It does look amazing though so it's a tossup...
What am I thinking?
Well...
1- Buy a Tesla. So you can look like a rockstar while speeding down the highways, and not spend a dime on gas, ever.
2- I'm so glad I don't drive and use a corp/exec car service instead. They are forced to stay super competitive, so they can't hike up their rates much higher, and even if they do, it still costs wayyyyy less for me than owning and driving a car myself.
3- All of the major car makers in the world need to watch the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" -- and do the opposite of what GM did. Because apparently, there IS a market for the electric car. Fools!
4- Ethanol is like communism. Great idea on paper, but impossible in the long run in reality. Rising costs of food/corn products is the result of trying to switch all of these farms to grow our fuel. Please just give up on the idea already. Accept failure, and look into other, far cheaper and easier to produce fuel alternative sources.
5- Drive less. Americans are so fat and lazy. Take a walk. Ride a bike. You don't need an SUV.
6- Consider making modifications to your cars and trucks to run on cheaper much more available sources... like water. It exists. The mod is cheap. The car companies threaten to void their warranties if you do it, but if that's the case, then set aside 25% of whatever you'd normally spend at the gas pump the 2x-3x you fill up, for a solid year, and use that cash for any vehicle related issues you'd have to pay for by not being covered by your car company. Problem solved. A ton of cash saved. Better for the environment. Less money sent to the Arabs.
7- Hybrids are a joke. Don't even bother. Either go totally electric, hydrogen, solar, water, whatever.. or go gas. Not both. It's just not practical in the longrun, and it's not as advanced as everyone seems to think. You're still fucking with the environment, and you're still spending way more money buying the damn thing (they are more expensive, price tag wise), and at the pump. By buying a hybrid you're basically saying "I'm too lazy to do more than this, so maybe the problem will just go away if I ignore it". Wrong.
Well...
1- Buy a Tesla. So you can look like a rockstar while speeding down the highways, and not spend a dime on gas, ever.
2- I'm so glad I don't drive and use a corp/exec car service instead. They are forced to stay super competitive, so they can't hike up their rates much higher, and even if they do, it still costs wayyyyy less for me than owning and driving a car myself.
3- All of the major car makers in the world need to watch the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" -- and do the opposite of what GM did. Because apparently, there IS a market for the electric car. Fools!
4- Ethanol is like communism. Great idea on paper, but impossible in the long run in reality. Rising costs of food/corn products is the result of trying to switch all of these farms to grow our fuel. Please just give up on the idea already. Accept failure, and look into other, far cheaper and easier to produce fuel alternative sources.
5- Drive less. Americans are so fat and lazy. Take a walk. Ride a bike. You don't need an SUV.
6- Consider making modifications to your cars and trucks to run on cheaper much more available sources... like water. It exists. The mod is cheap. The car companies threaten to void their warranties if you do it, but if that's the case, then set aside 25% of whatever you'd normally spend at the gas pump the 2x-3x you fill up, for a solid year, and use that cash for any vehicle related issues you'd have to pay for by not being covered by your car company. Problem solved. A ton of cash saved. Better for the environment. Less money sent to the Arabs.
7- Hybrids are a joke. Don't even bother. Either go totally electric, hydrogen, solar, water, whatever.. or go gas. Not both. It's just not practical in the longrun, and it's not as advanced as everyone seems to think. You're still fucking with the environment, and you're still spending way more money buying the damn thing (they are more expensive, price tag wise), and at the pump. By buying a hybrid you're basically saying "I'm too lazy to do more than this, so maybe the problem will just go away if I ignore it". Wrong.
The Energy Non-Crisis I'm thinking after i post this video someone will post it about 5-30 times in the next month or two.
I am thinking it is time to start promoting online commodity brokers.
"Oil going to $200, learn to make money like Exxon..."
that should get a few clicks! Havent found the right place to send the traffic yet...
"Oil going to $200, learn to make money like Exxon..."
that should get a few clicks! Havent found the right place to send the traffic yet...
My heavily modified Jeep/buggy gets 7 MPG on a good day, and my truck gets 11-12 MPG. I am just happy I work from home. Wish I had a less expensive hobby...
I work from home so gas doesn't effect me a whole lot.
I actually think it might be a blessing in disguise. Maybe this will make people get off their ass and actually come up with a solution, or demand that the solutions that have already been created get executed finally.
I actually think it might be a blessing in disguise. Maybe this will make people get off their ass and actually come up with a solution, or demand that the solutions that have already been created get executed finally.
I'm thinking that instead of working 18 hours a day, I should ramp it up to 20 or more. This would relieve a lot of the temptation of going to the grocery store which is basically the only place I will leave my office for. The kids prefer to go on walks instead of drives anyway but when all 3 of them need a car, I'm thinking that I'll be paying loads in gas or buy them all mopeds.
a) While I can't say I'm making huge money, I also don't make peanuts. It's just that when I started driving (1992), gas was $1.10 a gallon. 6 Years later it had DROPPED to .90 a gallon. Do you realize that it was just about 2-1/2 years ago that gas regularly broke the $2 mark here in the states? So in my driving lifetime the price of gas has taken over 13 years to double, then 3 to double again. Something doesn't smell rotten to you?
b) Are you implying that one liar is better than another?
Drill Anwar and all the other resources we have. China and other countries won't sit around and follow our so called environmental lead. They are already signing 100 year contracts to drill off Florida and in the Gulf.
While we sit around and hug polar bears and trees, China and others are gona drill the oil from right underneath us.
WTF is wrong with our government. They are placing the welfare of some damn bears over the welfare of our economic well being.
While we sit around and hug polar bears and trees, China and others are gona drill the oil from right underneath us.
WTF is wrong with our government. They are placing the welfare of some damn bears over the welfare of our economic well being.
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