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GAS PRICES!!!!
| Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:14pm |
Gas prices here in Baltimore are at about 2.85. The guy at the gas station this morning said they will go up 15-30 cents by the end of the day.
Isn't this a little unnecessary since the gas currently at the stations is already delivered and paid for? What is really irritating to me is that the government has trillions to spend on studies, projects, drug treatment, etc, but they can't help out the working class on the hike in gas and the resulting hikes in groceries, etc. Pretty soon, I won't be able to afford to drive. Yet the prisoners in Baltimore city will still have three meals a day, cable t.v., and cash in hand when they get out of jail for housing, food, and clothing.
Is there a website yet for donations to LA residents? I would like to help if I can. As crappy as all this is, I guess we should all count our blessings for waking up with our families in tact this morning. Debt is NOT the end of our world.
Sorry for my ranting......
Isn't this a little unnecessary since the gas currently at the stations is already delivered and paid for? What is really irritating to me is that the government has trillions to spend on studies, projects, drug treatment, etc, but they can't help out the working class on the hike in gas and the resulting hikes in groceries, etc. Pretty soon, I won't be able to afford to drive. Yet the prisoners in Baltimore city will still have three meals a day, cable t.v., and cash in hand when they get out of jail for housing, food, and clothing.
Is there a website yet for donations to LA residents? I would like to help if I can. As crappy as all this is, I guess we should all count our blessings for waking up with our families in tact this morning. Debt is NOT the end of our world.
Sorry for my ranting......

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Shannon
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Lynne
Gas is $2.98 here(SW Idaho), the cheap places are $2.89 We are really having to stretch our grocery budget, top that with school supplies etc. We cancelled our trip to the Oregon Coast. =-( Just to much of a budget strain now.
Like you said though, you look at the pictures of the South and things aren't so bad.
Dana
I usually lurk on this board, but I just wanted to say that the government already massively subsidizes the fuel that we buy. Look at prices in Europe and other parts of the world. Their gas prices are around $6 a gallon right now. I know it really stinks that gas prices are so outrageous right now (They were $3.19 at the gas station near where I work yesterday afternoon-- and I live in the midwest where gas is "enhanced" with ethanol from corn.), but other programs that the government pays for like "studies, projects, drug treatment" are very important-- especially those for research.
Sorry to be so blunt, but I just wanted to point out that not only are we lucky to not have catastrophic damage to our cities, but also that we pay the lowest gas prices in the world.
Jessica
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Dh was looking at them. They look like they are starting to be worth the extra money. They have gotten better as the second generation has come out.
http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid=4018909&src=Home&pos=EditLead
This link has some info about fuel efficiency and hybrids.
Jessica
government already massively subsidizes the fuel that we buy
Its not that our government subsidizes, its that European countries tax their fuel higher then the US gov taxes our fuel purchases.
Shannon
Yes, and they tax it to encourage fuel and energy efficiency and, at least in Germany, cross-finance things like federal pensions. Not exactly the worst thing you can do with money, I believe. And there indeed is subsidizing in the oil-business, too, not for gas itself, but for building new oil platforms etc.
But apart from that:
The current rise of fuel costs is, as I just read in an interview with someone from a refinery, utterly irrational. But since the major economies in the world are dependant on - or even: addicted to - gas and oil products, prices go up and up. You will always find a buyer, as long as without oil and oil derivatives everything will come down to a screeching halt.
... that always gives me lots ti think about. Our next car will most probably not be hybrid, but able to run on diesel or vegetable oil (so called bio-diesel aorund here). Another solution I like.
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"economies in the world are dependant on - or even: addicted to - gas and oil products, prices go up and up. You will always find a buyer, as long as without oil and oil derivatives everything will come down to a screeching halt. "
Here in the US we have put all our resources into developing automobiles & roads and put next to nothing towards public transportation. At $5 a gal in some areas we will be paying for it now.
"Our next car will most probably not be hybrid, but able to run on diesel or vegetable oil (so called bio-diesel aorund here). Another solution I like."
We have 2 gas & 1 diesel run vehicle. My husbands friends are trying to talk him into buying the Bio-Diesel setup, and start producing the bio diesel. (hes a diesel machanic so they trust him to do it I guess)
Shannon
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