rant about gas prices AGAIN

candidlynuts

so here it is, the end of the month. i got to get my kids this month since they're on summer vacation.. it took over 80 bux of gas to go 100 miles both ways two times,( picked kids up one weekend.. took them back so they could go to the stupid convention then picked them back up after, my ex refuses to meet me half way, i'm bad association ya know) i went almost a year without a way to get up to them. neither my ex or my family would bring them to me. the quote was " if i want HELP, i know what i have to do..get back to the meetings"

i now have 5 days till i get my social security check and i'm flat broke. dug out the change in the bottom of my purse to buy my dog some food. i can chose to see my kids or to eat. (fyi i wont go hungry..always got beans and rice, its just when the milk runs out , its gone , etc its a rant about gas prices not a poor me rant)

i took them home the other day because they have plans and school starts in 10 days.

what the heck ??its not that i have to chose between gas or food. i have to choose between seeing my kids or eating. i'd rather see my kids!

how do people who have to work for minimum wage make it? my car cost 300 bux to buy (17 yr old car), and it took me a year of saving and saving and saving to buy it, gas is rediculous. fixed income people are just flat out of luck.

last month a neighbor (elderly retired guy) came to our door asking for aluminum cans to take off to get enough gas money to take his wife to the doctor!! he said it was a choice between buying gas to go to the dr or paying their prescription co-pays! i save them for myself for extra money but i gave him what i had and 2 dollars.

people that have worked and paid taxes all their lives are suffering because of gas prices. shame on the oil companies and the gov't that allow them to set prices so high...something stinks when the oil companies are making record profits in the BILLIONS and the poor are having to go hungry to pay for their profits .

we're not taking vacations (there isnt a chance in hell i'll ever be able to afford a vacation again in my life!) we're just trying to get to the store, the doctor, and to family. the days of sunday drives are over too.

mass transportation in the usa isnt good enough ... i know people in other countries pay more for gas but their countries provide mass transportation thru their entire country. nearest bus stop from my kids is 30 miles away.

blondie

Thanks, candidlynuts, for putting the right perspective on this. I have moaned about the gas prices but it just means we put a little less in savings.

But when you don't have savings...........

Or it is a choice of either eating, medication, or transportation....

Love, Blondie(meds)

damselfly

Did you see Oprah yesterday? It was about the working poor who live on minimum wage and have to choose between eating and health care.

I don't know how they do it. I'm in Canada and if I need to go the doctor or to the emergency room, I just go, it doesn't cost me anything. I couldn't imagine having to make a choice between seeing my kids or eating. Or eating versus having enough gas to go to the doc.

I've been really, really poor but at least I had health care.

Gas jumped 10 cents overnight here to $1.22.9 a liter, makes me sick to have to fill the tank. When I move out of province it's goong to cost me a fortune.

candidlynuts

thanks blondee..

i know there are people hurting worse than i am about gas prices. it just amazes me that the hard times it puts some people in isnt BIG NEWS. all you see on the news is people trading in their big SUV's for smaller cars! and legislation to make it easier for the development of alternative fuel vehicles.. Like the poor would be able to afford a different car???? thats not hurt.. hurt is when you cant get freakin go to the grocery store or doctor.

candidlynuts

damsel it was 2.98 a gallon here yesterday.

FairMind

I am not an apologist for the oil industry but feel compelled to point out that high oil prices (including gasoline prices) are not the result of oil company’s greed. Greed might be true if oil was an infinite resource but it isn’t. The economic laws of supply and demand are driving oil prices ever higher. The world’s ability to provide petroleum has pretty well reached its peak and will soon go into a decline with production dwindling as time passes. The other side of the supply and demand equation is that demand is ever increasing, especially with China and India striving to become more industrialized.

According to the book Life After the Oil Crash by Matthew David Savinar, “An 8% yearly decline would cut global oil production by a whopping 50% in under nine years. If a 5% cut in production caused prices to triple in the 1970s, what do you think a 50% cut is going to do?”

If the projected shortfall of oil production only affected gasoline prices that would be bad enough for us but the impact will be much greater. Consider some more thoughts from Matthew Savinar’s book: The size of this ratio stems from the fact that every step of modern food production is fossil fuel and petrochemical powered:

1.Pesticides are made from oil;

2.Commercial fertilizers are made from ammonia, which is made from natural gas, which will peak about 10 years after oil peaks;

3.With the exception of a few experimental prototypes, all farming implements such as tractors and trailers are constructed and powered using oil;

4.Food storage systems such as refrigerators are manufactured in oil-powered plants, distributed across oil-powered transportation networks and usually run on

electricity, which most often comes from natural gas or coal;

5.In the US, the average piece of food is transported almost 1,500 miles before it gets to your plate. In Canada, the average piece of food is transported 5,000 miles from where it is produced to where it is consumed.

It’s not just transportation and agriculture that are entirely dependent on abundant, cheap oil. Modern medicine, water distribution, and national defense are each entirely powered by oil and petroleum derived chemicals.

In addition to transportation, food, water, and modern medicine, mass quantities of oil are required for all plastics, all computers and all high-tech devices.

What all of this means, in short, is that the aftermath of Peak Oil will extend far beyond how much you will pay for gas. If you are focusing solely on the price at the pump, more fuel-efficient forms of transportation, or alternative sources of energy, you aren’t seeing the bigger picture.

Justice-One

it doesn't cost me anything.

You don't pay taxes?

jayhawk1

I am one of the working poor that does not have health care. I just keep going until I am through college. Maybe then things will change.

daniel-p

damsel it was 2.98 a gallon here yesterday.

It's been over 3.30 for months out here in California.

Nosferatu

Yeah, we're getting screwed up the poop chute (to put it nicely) over gas prices, but I'm fighting back.

This past weekend, I bought myself a used bicycle for $25 (half the price of a tank of gas for me) and I'm gonna be riding that to work and back, instead of using up 1/2 a tank of gas for the week. The bike will pay itself off in one week.

The helmet I had to buy will pay itself off in 1/2 a week.

The rest is all cash back in my pocket!

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