Can you hear it??? It's coming! (warning, b*tching & moaning thread)

I'm kinda tired of people comparing the price of gas to other products we use. For example; coffee, toothpaste, mouthwash, super glue. Yeah, I agree paying $5.00 for a Starbucks coffee is outrageous and I don't do it. But Starbucks has always been expensive, gas hasn't. $2.00 for a tube of toothpaste. How many ounces is that? 12? If so, that's over $32 a gallon. But how much do you actually use. A tube of toothpaste will last my family month. Not so true with gas now is it.
How expensive is gas going to get before something is done about it. None the oil companies are hurting for cash!

 

$5 for starbucks... Damn I'm get'n ripped My tab is always $6-$8...

And yes I agree, I don't give'a crap how much a bottle of distilled water cost unless it's gonna start my car and get me from A to B...:amen:

 

I hate to say it but this is good!!!! Maybe this country will finally wake up and do something!! Stop buying oil from the mid east and let them choke on it. Start doing something and make more efficient cars.

Stop borrowing money from China. realize this is war and join together like we did during WW 2.

We will fall far and hard if we don't.

Joe

 

My point with the comparison of gas vs coffee was that it bithers me when people complain about the price of gas, but continue to spend more $$$ on things such as coffee. Sorry it is just something that really bothers me, I guess it stems from my Mom's coffe addiction, and her incessant griping about the price of gas. Unfortunately there's not too much the U.S. is going to do about it. I remember when gas was nearing $3.00 the press kept saying that was the psychological price, and that people's driving habits would change. Well not it's approaching $4.00/gallon, and I don't see much change. Americans like the freedom of driving too much. We are a car culture. The U.S. needs to pull it's head out of it's a$$ and get priorities straight. In the military we keep getting tested against 1950's metrics that no-longer apply to today's world, why? Becuase they're measurable, and the people in charge are too afraid to make that kind of drastic change. Big business now runs this country, and will continue to do so, unless a major change happens. Flame away!!!

 

Well, Stuka, I hope you are pleased with yourself now...

 

douglasthecook, i see your point about the coffee. My gf loves starbucks, i'd rather make coffee at home, then i don't have to leave the house for a drink. She probably spends enough on weekly starbucks for a tank of gas. The only time I get starbucks for coffee out, is when I have gift cards or at a restaurant. But ya, many of us don't realized how much we spend in other ways.

 

I have embraced the future. I am buying saddle bags today and will be commuting on the VFR. Not that the 93 accord is a gas hog, but I spend alot of time switching back and forth, so I decided to stick to the bike this riding season to attempt to lessen the blow.

hee hee, he said 'blow'

 

good job derstuka wait until the rainbow room lets out and the princesses had a few cosmopolitians :kiss: then you'll hear the meaning of life lol...oh didn't i say last week its gonna get worse save your money..but it will st8en out after election ?but the guy in germany proves its a global economy and when AMERICA stops spending and the dollar gets weaker and people start watching money cut costs restaruants movie etc.. then others follow....................dam i better go riding this weekend before its to l8 :faint:

 

So who told you about my panties? And they may have already BEEN in a bundle... :biggrin:

 

For $5 a gallon you better have a locking fuel cap on your car or your neighbor's gone suck the fuel right outta your ride.:car:

 

we pay about 1.21 a liter so thats just under 5$ a us gal diesel is even more.a new carbon tax is being added to that soon i wouldn't be surprised to see 1.40 by summer
strange when you consider one of the worlds largest oil reserves is in the next province.

 

Don't even get me started, I'm with Douglas on this one. till we get a handle, it's never going to stop.

 

I have to add my 2 cents.....
You boys are discussin about gas goin up,let me ask you,do you khow what is socialism,that is a thing my former country was in and gas price was low,but there is another problem,we did´t have any gas.We had pair and odd days that means if your licence plate ends with pair number you can´t drive monday,we and if you had odd nu.you can´t drive tu,th:crazy: ,plus limited fuel I think it was 40 litres/month per family.......
How to get to work.....who cares,fly if you can,improvise,crazy times belive me..
Now we have capitalism-democracy,rich is getinn richer,poor is getin porer,aaaaahhhhhhh crazy world....