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Fuck Gas!... or, find me a new car!
misbehavin
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/25/gasprice.protest.ap/index.html
This obviously won't work, but it does indicate a trend... People who commute a lot are entering into the territory of genuinely not being able to afford to drive.
I now spend $225 a WEEK to commute to work, and according to my calculations, once gas prices get over $4 a gallon (possibly next week), it will suddenly be MORE costly to go to work than to quit and get a lower-pay job within biking distance near home.
This especially pisses me off, because the cost of a barrel of crude is near 64, nowhere NEAR the 70+ it was last summer when the gas prices were CHEAPER. Fuck this!
EDIT: Woops! I meant $125 a week.
Motorists pulled in to Harvey Pollack's gas station, honked and gave him a thumbs-up -- because he wasn't selling any fuel.
The owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at convincing oil companies to lower their prices.
"Somebody out there is making money at these prices, but not me," said Pollack, 57. "So I just thought: What can I do to help the consumer?"
This obviously won't work, but it does indicate a trend... People who commute a lot are entering into the territory of genuinely not being able to afford to drive.
I now spend $225 a WEEK to commute to work, and according to my calculations, once gas prices get over $4 a gallon (possibly next week), it will suddenly be MORE costly to go to work than to quit and get a lower-pay job within biking distance near home.
This especially pisses me off, because the cost of a barrel of crude is near 64, nowhere NEAR the 70+ it was last summer when the gas prices were CHEAPER. Fuck this!
EDIT: Woops! I meant $125 a week.
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It went up 10 cents a liter here in Calgary right before the long weekend (Which, for us, was last weekend) and now it's down 5 cents.
Woops! $125.
I drive about 85 miles per week to and from work. At 12 MPG (I drive a truck) and 3.12 per gallon, thats right around 100, and then factor in the bad mileage from bad traffic conditions (stop-and-go for 30 miles a day).
And that's... fairly common and cheap. I know people working at Burger King wouldn't commute long distances, but when you make $80K at a financial firm, it's usually work it. But with a mortgage, and bills, and such, $500 a month on gas is fucking rediculous!
How about you do something to reduce your consumption. People like you are a huge part of the problem.
Ah, that's not too bad then.
I mean, it is, but you know.
Why do you drive a truck? Curious.
Because he has to feel like a big man on his way to the financial firm.
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But if public transportation, more fuel efficient car, or car pooling is available? Go for it and save yourself some coin.
Next month I'm moving 7 minutes away from work, and probably won't even drive half the time. Rent's cheaper too. Cha-ching.
I love working from home. Seriously, though, I don't know why more companies don't allow telecommuting for jobs where it would work. I work on a computer all day. My company realized that there is no reason that said computer and its operator needed to be in an office rather than in my home. I don't have to commute, so I win. My company spends less money on leasing office space, etc, so they win.
While I work in a low-impact job, I still like having a truck for various home-work: Transporting dirt for the yard, gravel for the walk-ways, and also just generally for transporting large, heavy things, like dirt-bikes and lawn mowers, and such.
Trucks are remarkably useful vehicles, and you only really notice its usefulness when you don't have one and need one. Although I'm seriously considering getting a Honda just for commuting.
For the last year I've lived a bit closer and actually drive more. Which kinda sucks.
But the bus route doesn't get me close to the office, and I'm just far enough away that while biking in is possible, we don't have a place to change or clean up before work. Riding around in a suit, in DC area heat and humidity is not fun.
I do walk in the fall, spring, and sometimes winter though.
Last year at this time AAA went bonkers about the rising gas price and started predicting that nobody would travel and that the tourism industry would take a massive hit. It didn't. This year they're saying people will keep on driving regardless of the price.
Hurts my head.
If this is true, then I reiterate:
High Gas Prices are a great thing. I love them. They are a tax on the stupid. Every time I see an H2 or a Suburban on the freeway, I look down at my secondary odometer that I reset on each tank. It says 152. My fuel guage reads just a hair over half. My tank holds 9.2 gallons.
Then I laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.
Just sayin'
85 miles is what?... 8.5 miles each way? Have you considered cycling maybe? If you're stuck in traffic the whole way you may well find you actually save time by cycling.
Something to consider, hell even if you only ride half the journeys you'll drop to half that $125.
9 cents of profit for the gas station or in total? Because I'm fairly certain that the big oil companies make a shit-ton of cash for no apparent reason.
The prices reflect this.
Now, to be fair, I'm not sure if that figure means that those 9 cents are spread throughout the entire line of production, or if that's the amount of profit that eventually makes its way back to a big oil company for every gallon sold, but the point still stands.
People are always screaming that the government should do something to lower gas prices, usually in the form of price caps. If the government really wanted to lower gas prices, there are much less onerous means to do this: lower taxes on gas.
Cause over here, we're paying around 95 to 98p a litre. Which works out to around £4 a gallon, I think.
EDIT: Cool beans
D-d-d do ya have it?
Oh God, I can't type... 85 miles PER DAY...
we don't have "petrol" or "litres" here, because we're not commies
I hate that gas is so high but by god I'll keep paying for it
otherwise I might have to take the bus, and there's black people in there
I see. This is highly peturbing.
Let's go to Mo with the leaderboard. Mo!
Haha, yeah, ok, that might not quite be cycle-able.
LD
i reiterate from the other thread
buy me a churro
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
I'm going to tone down my usual muder-death-kill Rage in this response:
Not meant to be insulting when I say you have no right to complain. You drive a vehicle that gets less than half the mileage of my Saturn SC2. It's your choice to keep a vehicle that sucks gas down instead of getting one that has much higher efficiency. Nobody is forcing you to drive that truck - you just admitted that the extra size and convenience are major motives for keeping it. What you seem to have failed to link as the main correlation between the two is that your truck is huge and can haul big things - it also sucks gas because it's big and not suited for commuting.
Two years ago, gas prices started rising. I thought for sure that this would mean people buying hybrids and fuel efficient vehicles. Instead I saw a major push in advertisement of vehicles that get HORRIBLE mileage. At the time, I thought there was slim chance people would be stupid enough to buy into this fad.
Turns out they were.
Sell your truck. Fuck, they make hybrid SUVs now. Or get a truck that's smaller and gets better mileage.
Alternately, you can keep getting raped at the pump.
Either way, it's your decision alone.
that is bullshit and I challenge you to a yugioh card duel