How Does the Price of Gas Effect YOUR budget?

What if you are disabled, handicapped, blind??? You don't think much beyond your own nose, do you?

 

If you are blind it's advisable you don't drive a car.

 

Not to mention inclement weather. People who think bikes are the answer are idiots.

 

OK,, my main form of transport is a little 125cc four stroke motor scooter. I live about 3.5 kilometres from work and about five kilometres in the other direction into the CBD.

My little bike costs me less than five bucks a week to run, plus about ten bucks for a routine service. Cheap to run, easy to get parking and heaps of fun to ride. Vientiane council has provided bike parking around the city of about 25 cents unlimited time parking. We can also park on footpaths.

I ride my bike in rain, hail or shine.

 

Perhaps you are correct..currently.

The problem is that we do have the ability to mass-produce artificial carbohydrates which could be used to mass-produce combustible alcohol, but I doubt anyone wants to invest in that until:

1. more people think like me and less people think like..you? And,

2. Big Oil gets out of the bed with the government.

 

Perhaps if republicans wouldn't have sat on their collective hands while Bush was there wreaking the havoc he did, spoken up about debt, spending (like they do now that a democrat occupies the WH), perhaps "hope and change" wouldn't have been required in the first place. Ya think?

 

I drive a fuel efficient car and live within walking distance of a lot of things I need. So I the price of gas has a negligible effect on my budget. Well, if I think about driving any substantial distance say 10 miles I usually decide against it and stay in my neighborhood.

Now if you are dumb enough to have and SUV and live out in BFE... your mileage may vary.

 

Fantastic for you - but for the rest of us, it isn't feasible. No one who is criticizing those who are attacking the notion of automobile use are saying you shouldn't make whatever choice you want to make.

We're defending our choices. I can also guarantee you that you'd be going nowhere on your bike in the 6" of snow we are now getting here.

 

What's dumb about owning an SUV and living in a rural area? Do you even know what snow is?

Liberals.

 

The days of the big American gas guzzler is over.

You do have choices. Either drive more fuel efficient cars or get yourselves unionised and demand higher wages.

 

It's not over for me, porkchop. I drive a 400hp Range Rover; my wife drives a GMC Yukon.

Or - like many Americans - simply choose to become financially solvent by being valuable enough to society to command high compensation.

So I do not have to putter around on 125cc scooters and freeze my gonads off.

 

Lucklily, my budget is not tight enough for the price of gas to make a difference. I plan on driving 1.5 hours each way to go sking tomorrow.

But if I was on a tight budget, I might try to consolidate a few trips or something, but gas is a very inelastic good. Meaning there is no substitute and you need it in the short term. Sure, I could move from the country to the city and take public transport, etc. but in the short term, if gas was $20 a gallon, I would still be buying it. But if things were tight, things like dinner out or movies would be cut to pay for gas.

 

The economy would collapse, due to people not realizing that fossil fuels are nonrenewable and that we should get off of them. If people realized that fossil fuels are renewable and that we should replace them as soon as possible, we wouldn't be dependent on fossil fuels. So if gas were $20 a gallon, it wouldn't matter much.

 

I'm a new member and this is my first post.

Anyway, I'm going to college this September but will be living at home to save money. The college is 40 miles away, which means 400 miles each week for school alone. This doesn't factor in driving to the library, going to work or going out. So let's say 500 miles every week. At 4 dollars a gallon, that would cost about 150 dollars a week. Put that on top of other costs, such as books, the new computer that I'll need for my major, food and the insurance for a young driver, I'll be lucky to break even. I don't pay tuition because of scholarships, but it will still be difficult.

 

50% or more of the UK gas prices are TAX and that's their own dumbass fault for putting up with it.

http://www.abd.org.uk/taxtable.htm

 

I predict that soon you'll be pumping ethanol in your tank at your local 'gas' station. It will be called 'gas' and 'Big Oil' will be selling it to you. Actually most gas has about 10% ethanol right now.

 

In Australia 33% of the bowser price for fuel is tax, and has been like this for decades irrespective of what government is in power. The higher the fuel price, the more taxes are reaped.

The price of fuel can directly be linked to inflation as the price of most goods and services are influenced by fuel prices. Luckliy, Australian wages are indexed against inflation.

Once fuel prices start to rise, nothing will bring the price of fuel down although they will fluctuate depending on the price of a barrell of crude oil.

 

I'd rather push my 125cc motor scooter than drive your 400hp Range Rover!

 

The way Obamanomics is working we all may be pushing our modes of transportation

But we will be told in between the huffs and puffs "It's not Obama's fault!"

 

The government has you partisan hacks fooled into thinking it's about "Democrats" vs "Republicans". If they read this, they'd be TICKLED (*)(*)(*)(*)ING PINK!

 

Broadly speaking you're correct: it's not the left/right, but it's the have's and havenots.

However you seem to be conflating the "haves" with the "government". This is not true. In a democracy government is a tool of the citizens; it's as good or bad as the amount of citizen's involved. Once money becomes considered free speech, the government risks becoming a tool of private corporate interests, but it's still not the government doing this, though corrupt elements enable it to happen.

The solution is for citizens to retake their government.

 

Once fuel prices rise, there is little chance of them coming down irrespective of who's in government.

 

Emecely. I can't ask for a raise, so I asked my boss today to work from home.

Not granted

But I'll ask him again tomorrow. I am not giving up.