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Replying to: tedebear (Apr 18, 2008 1:46 pm)
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 18, 2008 5:11 pm)
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I just filled up my girlfriend's Buick LaCrosse yesterday morning after dropping her off at the airport. It had jumped overnight from a ridiculous $3.27 to an absurd $3.33 for Sunoco Regular. This morning it's an insane $3.39 for regular! How the (censored) can it jump 18 cents in two days?!?!? Either we're being viciously gas-raped or we're experiencing some Weimar-esque inflation! Looks like it's time to break out the Nikes.
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Replying to: lemko (Apr 19, 2008 4:40 am) 
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Replying to: mickeyrom (Apr 19, 2008 5:39 am) Its $3.65 here in the burbs of Chicago  Going to Davenport to shop and see movies, you must live in northern IL near either I-80 or I-88 west of I-39. I know some people out that way in Princeton, they are hurting because the need to burn a gallon of gas to to pick up groceries. |
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Replying to: lemko (Apr 19, 2008 4:40 am) If you want to have a more luxurious lifestyle I suggest you start figuring out how to make more $.
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Replying to: kernick (Apr 19, 2008 8:32 am) My real concerns are around the trickle down effects of rising gas prices - so we go to fewer movies - theaters close, kids and adults looking for the supplemental second job lose opportunity. Cost of transporting goods increases - those hikes are passed on to the consumer, and since we don't all have the room/ability to grow our own food and clothing, everyone is affected, some more than others... and so on, and so on...
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Replying to: ny540i6 (Apr 19, 2008 8:54 am) An article in yesterday's aper actually addressed that we now take many luxuries for granted. http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-04-17-options-standard-loaded_N.htm Maybe if we spent less on the car, we'd have more $ for the gas? Your concerns abut the trickle-down effect are real. However it is increased economic activity which is running up our fossil fuel use. Something has to give. The more people on Earth the less for each! Maybe we better hope that we don't find a way to keep every living to 200? or 300? 
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Replying to: kernick (Apr 18, 2008 9:00 am) farout |
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Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm) However, David, the hard facts are that the energy situation is not as simple as one solution will resolve the majority of problems. It seems to me that you may have some other issues other than just energy, to suggest boycotting every last automaker except Honda. Natural gas has it's problems, like lack of lubercation to the valves, just to name one. To suggest that one fuel or automaker can solve the energy crisis is rather narrow thinking. When we take many great solutions and each accomplishes a singificant reduction in polution, and energy savings, that will be the better way. To suggest that we should boycott US vehicles is mindless, and would serve only to put our economy, and financial furture in the tolet and flush ourselves down the sewer! You can't be serious? This is a country that we have freedom to earn and spend as we see fit. At least that is what many have fought and died for to have and cherrish. I say that for anyone to state a Auto maker from Japan should be the ONLY vehicle in the US us to say the least offensive. Japan owes the US big time! Had not the US spent millions upon millions of US citizens hard earned tax dollars to rebuild their country, Japan would be in the same shape as North Korea is today. US automakers have taken a bad rap from such bias magizines as Consumer Reports, which unless it's made anywhere but the US is a better vehicle! Bull Pucky! So you just might want to re-think your request to boycott US automakers. David, it's a real bad idea! farout |
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