$4.00 / Gallon gasoline. Everyone happy?

Its what the liberal wacko enviromentalist including Al Gore wanted.

What do you suggest?

Drive less

Saw a spot on CNN or Fox last night on these new enviromentally friendly buses that California is mandating the use of.
The old buses cost $1.16 per mile to run. The new buses cost $56
per mile to run.

Saw that there is a newly discovered MASSIVE oil reserve in the Dakota's that is bigger than any reserve in Saudi Arabia. We can start by drilling for our own freekin' oil.

Drill for our own oil. Ha good one.

I quit my job last July, moved to Colorado and now consult out of the house. Most clients require one initial meeting and then mostly email communication and phone. Ride my bike, run or walk whenever I can. Now that the warm weather is here my girlfriend and I ride out bikes to her job abut 13 miles each way as my T/Th morning workout. Drive her to/from the bus stop in town on M,W & F on my way to my morning training trail run.

Considering buying an electric scooter for short errands.

Some major life changes but it is a better way of life. Set my own schedule, salary, and vacation time.

I charge more.

This has put a hurt on our vacation plans. We are flying to Colorado out of Philly since it is $75 cheaper per ticket (x4) but still almost $100 more a ticket than we are used to paying. Rental cars are more expensive as well.

Kind of a bummer, but we will still have lots of fun.

Where's all that free stuff we're supposed to be getting from Iraq?

How nice do you smell after you ride your bike to work?
We used to have an executive shower that the higher ups could use. There was also an expensive health club adjacent to our facility that people joined so that if they walked on a hot summer day their business suits (yes, people used to wear suits) wouldn't be all nasty. And yes, people did this before gas was $4/gallon. Parking was $120/month.

We have guys that ride bike to work or they go and work out at lunch time and then they come back without getting a shower. Amazingly most don't smell so they must load up on deoderant when they get back. The one guy used to hang his undies on a coat rack to dry in his office after working out. It was a lovely sight.

Think a gallon of petrol is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.
Diet Snapple 16 oz ?1.29 .. ?10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz ?1.19 .?9.52 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz ?1.25 ...... ?10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz ?3.15 ...... ?33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz E8.35 ... ?178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz ?3.85 . ?123.20 per gallon
Tippex 7 oz ?1.39 ....... . ?5.42 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz ?1.49..?21.19 per gallon! ?21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source
(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
You don't even want to compare it with perfume or after shave.
Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink at................
(you won't believe it....but it is true........)
?5,200 a gal.. (five thousand two hundred pounds)
So, the next time you're at the pump,be glad your car doesn't run on water, or Tippex, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or God forbid, Printer Ink!
Just a little humour to help ease the pain of your next trip to the petrol pump...

Okay but what about this ??????

Print ink:

$1080.44 for one liter..


Talk about the black gold

Why are you still printing stuff out? Save it on a HD as memory is inexpensive.

Damn. I thought high-gloss paint was bad.

A decent pint costs over $5.00 and there is no such thing as having one.

8 pints = 1 gallon ($40/gallon)

Life's too short to drink cheap beer

i have a gas scooter that gets 70+ mpg. people say i look funny on it until i tell them that. then they just mumble and nod. plus it goes at least 65MPH without really trying. and I can carry my clubs in my Ping Moonbag. i had to license it, it's a 150cc. i dropped 5 bucks in it this week, most ever to fill it (premium!). i'm almost 2100 miles and about $130 in gas over 2 years. i spent $55 filling my truck last week.

Fuck you Bush. good riddance you cocksucker (no offense Deadwood fans).

There was a story on the local news the other day about truckers who are having diesel fuel siphoned out of their trucks while they sleep at truck stops.

Well covers and stuf like that has to be printed no ??

I love how you blame Bush. If it were up to Republicans we would have billions of gallons worth of gas flowing from Alaska as we speak.

I just spent $65 filling up my 6 cyl truck. I would love to ride a bike to work, but after 26 miles, I imagine that I would smell as others have commented. (We have no shower facilities in my office.)

I wouldn't mind the scooter/small motorcycle option, except people drive like shit here in Arizona and I think its even more dangerous than when I used to ride back east.

Dana,
You would not smell after riding a bike. Sure you sweat but as you get in shape it will be less and less. Of course you live in Az where the temp in the morning is 80+. As long as you can change from your cycling gear you should be fine and not offensive.

$85 to fill up the dh's Jeep, and 37 for my pathetic Civic. That's enough to drive me to drink.

along with Exon f..... Valdez

$51 to fill my subaru impressa outback
AWD sucks

Expensive items true, but I don't remember the last time I bought 20 gallons of ink, gas on the other hand runs about 5.50 a gallon in my neck of the woods...

I can get a frosty quart jar of beer for $1.75 at the local eagles club $7/gal

fuel was 3.89/ gal last fill up

it was so f ing hot today here (about 98) i gave a gas station attendent a 2 dollar tip, and he looked at me like he was thinking "are you crazy lady?".. i guess tips dont come often these days for them.

Kiplinger says oil will drop to around $100 per barrel by christmas but Goldman Sachs says it will be up to around $200 per barrel. Just by the second guy saying that oil spiked over $11 per barrel in one day. The commodities bubble has to burst sometime soon.

Well $4.50/gallon is not enough to make most people change their behaviour so I guess they will try $5.00 then $5.50/gallon.

Less demand is the solution. More supply is the sort sighted bandaid.

dont know if it's been posted before
but in case some are interested

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66557
http://www.americansolutions.com/

$4.00 per gallon would be cheap in Euroland.

Taking exchange rate into account, 1 gallon currently is around US$ 7.80 in Central Europe. It does not change people's behaviour.
On a sidenote, charging ? 4.50 for 0.5 l of Carlsberg beer (if it can be called that) does apparently influence football fans' behaviour in Vienna.

The sad thing is that the government is making more on gas than the oil companies. Apparently the oil companies make abot 4 cents per gallon while the government (especially the ones that chage a %) are makign a killing. No wonder congress isn't going to do a damn thing about it.

In Maryland, 42 cents per gallon is going to federal and mostly state government.

Agreed. Now's the time to use rising fuel costs to spur people to try other options. We in AZ should be have solar all over but don't. Some builders in CA are writing blanket approval of solar into their condominium declarations.

BTW, on biking to work: I'm concerned about sweat/smell, but the time to bike 26 miles would probably be the killer. And I caught the "when you get in shape" comment ...