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Off Topic!, Let the gas companys burn in HELL |
justdrive914 |
Sep 12 2008, 10:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 31-July 08 From: Asheville, NC Member No.: 9,374 Region Association: South East States |
WTF gas here in asheville NC is up to 5.10 a gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something must be done 914's get good mileage we are tryin here!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif) no more of this for me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) how did it come to this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) |
PRS914-6 |
Sep 12 2008, 10:27 PM
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Excellence Magazine Project 914 3.6 Group: Retired Members Posts: 1,278 Joined: 20-May 06 From: Central California Member No.: 6,031 Region Association: None |
That's easy. A bazillion people in this country drive SUV's and huge trucks creating a huge demand for gas. When the market gets tight prices go up. When gas prices went sky high Americans started cutting back and the fuel prices dropped in a short period. Reduce consumption and the prices will continue to drop. When demand increases the prices will rise. A surplus means prices drop, it's an easy concept. I'm sure I'll get flamed but we are the biggest abusers of energy in the world and we have this coming and we deserve it. Nobody learned from the 70's......and I admit I am as bad as the rest (except I do drive a Prius) It's like telling people there is a water shortage. They turn on the tap and say there is plenty of water. They won't conserve until no water comes out of the tap ......and the same will be for gas. Americans won't conserve on their own because it is the right thing to do. They will only conserve when the price gets too high or there is none left..........sorry to speak the truth Travel to other countries. In many it is illegal to run their home heater during certain times of the year. Are we spoiled or are they over regulated? |
LarryR |
Sep 12 2008, 10:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 929 Joined: 15-March 07 From: E. Bay Area, N. California Member No.: 7,604 |
That's easy. A bazillion people in this country drive SUV's and huge trucks creating a huge demand for gas. When the market gets tight prices go up. When gas prices went sky high Americans started cutting back and the fuel prices dropped in a short period. Reduce consumption and the prices will continue to drop. When demand increases the prices will rise. A surplus means prices drop, it's an easy concept. I'm sure I'll get flamed but we are the biggest abusers of energy in the world and we have this coming and we deserve it. Nobody learned from the 70's......and I admit I am as bad as the rest (except I do drive a Prius) It's like telling people there is a water shortage. They turn on the tap and say there is plenty of water. They won't conserve until no water comes out of the tap ......and the same will be for gas. Americans won't conserve on their own because it is the right thing to do. They will only conserve when the price gets too high or there is none left..........sorry to speak the truth Travel to other countries. In many it is illegal to run their home heater during certain times of the year. Are we spoiled or are they over regulated? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I was just as bad as the rest until this last year. I have a monster commute (100 miles a day) and I kept driving my 96 jeep grand cherokee regardless because it was paid for. This year I started car pooling and then even bought a '09 VW tdi a couple of weeks ago. My fuel cost has dropped from 700 a month to about 65 bucks a month!!! It is funny how when the realizations start hitting you how you start to conserve in other aspects of your life. I have allowed our grass to turn a yellowish color trying to conserve water but draw the line at our fruit trees. I figure we eat the fruit and the water would be used to grow it elsewhere anyway. I am a strong believer that if we all turned in our SUV's and conserved that the trade deficit would shrink to almost zip almost over night. Just think if we could completely cut our dependency on foriegn oil!!! 237 million a day in Iraq comes to mind.... I will stop here before I start to rant. |
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