[aflatoxin]

Here are the bleatings of the sheeple:

CNN emails complain about gas

This summer is going to be more painful than the last. Perhaps not as painful as the next.

edit:

Some of these are over the top. I wish I could see the ones they didn't post. The editor at CNN must be jerky-hardened to read all of these.

[JoeCoal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bleating Sheeple', '$')3.18 for premium gas this morning in Irvine, California. Just wondering what lame excuse the oil companies and our government are thinking up to keep the price rising. Hurricane Katrina still impacting supply? Our government officials and oil barons are lining their pockets because we have failed as a society to curtail our dependency on foreign oil. We only have ourselves to blame.

[turmoil]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time:

I fill my car with 50 dollars worth of gas. I drive to the store to buy a 6 dollar bag of beef jerky. It takes me 3 dollars to go 14 miles to buy the jerky. I eat it all before I get home so I must go back to the store to buy more jerky for 6 dollars. Again it costs me 3 dollars in gas. I finish the jerky just as I arrive at home only to get an upset stomach from 1/2 pound of dried beef swelling in my stomach. I now have to spend another 3 dollars in gas to buy a 7 dollar bottle of Rolaids. This 1 hour of my life cost me 28 dollars. With the price of gas these days I think its time to give up on beef jerky. Another pleasure gone due to gas prices.
Joe Stain, Atlanta, Georgia

I can only hope he's kidding.

[aflatoxin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('turmoil', 'T')his is the funniest thing I've read in a long time:

I fill my car with 50 dollars worth of gas. I drive to the store to buy a 6 dollar bag of beef jerky. It takes me 3 dollars to go 14 miles to buy the jerky. I eat it all before I get home so I must go back to the store to buy more jerky for 6 dollars. Again it costs me 3 dollars in gas. I finish the jerky just as I arrive at home only to get an upset stomach from 1/2 pound of dried beef swelling in my stomach. I now have to spend another 3 dollars in gas to buy a 7 dollar bottle of Rolaids. This 1 hour of my life cost me 28 dollars. With the price of gas these days I think its time to give up on beef jerky. Another pleasure gone due to gas prices.
Joe Stain, Atlanta, Georgia

I can only hope he's kidding.

[turmoil]

Nope. It's on the CNN page.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Matt', 'T')here's a gas card that lets me save $.03 a gallon at certain stations in town and I now get gas only there, as small doses of $.03 per gallon savings really add up.

[12volts]

If you want Starbucks coffee and you save at .03 a gallon? Please don't hold your breath! Gas at $3 a gallon is still much cheaper As for me I am going to try to grow my own

[emailking]

THis guy appears to be PO aware? Or at least have some keen instincts.



Rising gasoline prices have caused me to drive faster, so I can arrive at my destination before I run out of gas! Seriously, I work out of the immediate area, so my fuel consumption won't be affected by rising prices for quite a while. I DO shop around, and try to schedule my fill-ups to previously-known cheaper fuel sites (Costco off route 30 in Lancaster, Giant on Route 15 near Harrisburg, Hess on Route 422 in Douglasville, and Getty on Route 15 just south of Point Of Rocks). My favorite (and best-mileage) car requires premium (92+ octane) fuel, and I last paid $3.039/gallon in Chester County (less in Berks County). Lorton, Virginia, wanted $3.139 per gallon (for premium) last night (they didn't get it!). I decry the use of ethanol or other non efficiency (oxygenating) additives to my motor fuel, long for a return to tetraethyl lead, and see electric cars recharged by nuclear power plants as a long-term solution for the upcoming oil availability crisis (we need oil more for plastics and medicines). I also foresee our retaking, probably militarily, of the nationalized oil facilities we developed in the Middle East and 'lost' in the sixties and seventies to increasingly-nationalistic indigenous peoples (this may be offset in time into the future) by appropriate occupation and control of the Iranian oil fields. But that's just me! Nobody writes songs about cars anymore (e.g. - "Little GTO," "409" "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "Mustang Sally," "Dead Man's Curve," etc. -- aren't Lexis and Beamers emotion-inspiring, or has the "sameness" of design removed the "mystique" of driving "good" iron?
Larry Schear, East Coventry, Pennsylvania, $3.039/gallon

[12volts]

Ok I might work on your glorified Toyota? But if you have problems with the beamer you need to ship it back to Gemany or have a pocket full of cash/oops Silver or Gold

"This guy appears to be PO aware? Or at least have some keen instincts." If you are talking about Joe it sounds about right! If you are talking about me well yes

[emailking]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('12volts', 'O')k I might work on your glorified Toyota? But if you have problems with the beamer you need to ship it back to Gemany or have a pocket full of cash/oops Silver or Gold

"This guy appears to be PO aware? Or at least have some keen instincts." If you are talking about Joe it sounds about right! If you are talking about me well yes

[Colorado-Valley]

I always wondered if a couple of generations of Americans breathing leaded-gas fumes is what got us into our current situation.

[Rabbit]

I live 6 miles from work and I get 40 mpg on my motorcycle. I spend about $15 a week on gas for the bike and my wife spends about $20 a week in here car (she works at home).

The price of gas has not affected us, but I am really scared about how inflation might hit us. We only have one payment, our house. We are working hard to pay it of asap.

[12volts]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'I') always wondered if a couple of generations of Americans breathing leaded-gas fumes is what got us into our current situation.

[eric_b]

Well, here's a link to a local news site where I live.

Apparently more and more people are 'pawning' stuff to pay for gas.
What I found amusing are the people pawning gold items to pay
for gas. This just confirms what I've felt all along about gold - namely
I don't think it will be worth much in a hard crash. WTF can you do
with it besides look at it? Already people are deciding gas is more
valuable.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/8868862/detail.html

[killJOY]

This all reminds me of some words by Colin Campbell in "End of Suburbia."

paraphrase: When the price goes up, people will smell a conspiracy. They'll think they're being gypped by the oil companies, simply because they haven't been told what's really going on.

Campbell sounds more and more prophetic.

[whereagles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'p')araphrase: When the price goes up, people will smell a conspiracy. They'll think they're being gypped by the oil companies, simply because they haven't been told what's really going on.

[erb]

i tell my wifes sister that thier 1 year old daughter will never drive a car and they think im crazy, they dont believe me. there is no way i could show them end of suburbia. she WOULD have a nevous breakdown

my wifes brother has seen end of suburbia and is now having twins, he knows whats coming but doesnt want to think of the things that will happen soon.

my wife knows... kinda, she thinks im "negative/pessimist" and wants to belive like her sister... the power of positive thinking and teaching our childern a better way will offset the sheeple of the world.

im f*kc'd

but ive been buying small ammounts of silver with my personal spending and doubled my money the way the market has been. so when TSHTF and things go down i'll be able to buy them what food there may be around and say "i told you so"

saddly i really want to be able to laugh and say that.... told you so, you all though i was crazy well now look at us

[Waterthrush]

I don't have kids, but have asked some of my colleagues if they've discussed peak oil and the waning of the auto era with their teenagers. Not one has. I'd love to hear about such discussions!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('erb', 'i') tell my wifes sister that thier 1 year old daughter will never drive a car and they think im crazy, they dont believe me. there is no way i could show them end of suburbia. she WOULD have a nevous breakdown

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emailking', 'T')His guy appears to be PO aware? Or at least have some keen instincts.



Rising gasoline prices have caused me to drive faster, so I can arrive at my destination before I run out of gas! Seriously, I work out of the immediate area, so my fuel consumption won't be affected by rising prices for quite a while. I DO shop around, and try to schedule my fill-ups to previously-known cheaper fuel sites (Costco off route 30 in Lancaster, Giant on Route 15 near Harrisburg, Hess on Route 422 in Douglasville, and Getty on Route 15 just south of Point Of Rocks). My favorite (and best-mileage) car requires premium (92+ octane) fuel, and I last paid $3.039/gallon in Chester County (less in Berks County). Lorton, Virginia, wanted $3.139 per gallon (for premium) last night (they didn't get it!). I decry the use of ethanol or other non efficiency (oxygenating) additives to my motor fuel, long for a return to tetraethyl lead, and see electric cars recharged by nuclear power plants as a long-term solution for the upcoming oil availability crisis (we need oil more for plastics and medicines). I also foresee our retaking, probably militarily, of the nationalized oil facilities we developed in the Middle East and 'lost' in the sixties and seventies to increasingly-nationalistic indigenous peoples (this may be offset in time into the future) by appropriate occupation and control of the Iranian oil fields. But that's just me! Nobody writes songs about cars anymore (e.g. - "Little GTO," "409" "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "Mustang Sally," "Dead Man's Curve," etc. -- aren't Lexis and Beamers emotion-inspiring, or has the "sameness" of design removed the "mystique" of driving "good" iron?
Larry Schear, East Coventry, Pennsylvania, $3.039/gallon