Check out gasbuddy.com's national gas-prices map by county... makes me want to move to Arizona! :)
It went over $130 a barrel yesterday, you know... finally closed at $129, I think...
Some oil man told Rick to just wait... wait until after June 15. What happens June 15th? is there something we don't know about - or is it just because it's summer time?
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I am SO happy we dont own a car ... last time I rented for a weekend it was as much as a one way ticket on JetBlue to SF! AND I drove the highway using cruise control to save gas ... I cant imagine how people manage driving to work and home every day
:-Daryl
We'd have to move closer to my work if I actually had to go to the office. As it stands, we are barely getting by. Our trips up the the ranch are drastically reduced and we don't leave the house for one thing without piggy backing errands with it. We are more efficient, but feel trapped.
I am looking at your side bar and I see "Bloggers for Darfur" and other places I see Bloggers for this foreign country and bloggers for that foreign country. Does anyone have a "Bloggers for Appalachian Children" or any sort of movement for the scores of people in West Virginia that don't have running water? Maybe I am on my soap box, but can't we take care of our own indigent? Must we send our increasingly little support to other countries?
(Not a reflection on you Anita, just a thought that crossed my mind. You, at least, are attempting to do something whereas many of us are not)
This is absolutely crazy! We are an average family with less than an average salary for a family of three and we struggle tremendously with current fuel prices. I don't see how families who live below the poverty line can function. The impending doom lurks around the corner. Paychecks are not going up to meet the cost of living increase. How are some families able to afford the gasoline to travel to work? In urban areas, mass transit is a possible option, but those of us in rural settings don't have that "luxury".
For the last two trips to the local market, I paid $4.49 for a gallon of milk. $4.49!
For several days now, I have needed to travel to town -35 miles away-to purchase items that are three times the price here in our local market....but I have talked myself out of it. I want to go to the movies..so badly...haven't been since last year sometime...but I feel guilty because of how much fuel would cost.
I have a mandatory 600 mile trip to Oklahoma scheduled for this weekend. I am taking my ice chests, so that I can shop in a town in another state, 100 miles from us, because it is on the way home. So I will spend my dollars in another state (instead of spending locally), because I cannot afford the extra fuel it would cost by driving 70 miles round trip in the opposite direction.
Maybe I am the looney one here!
Our gas prices are averaging $3.71 around here I guess. I need gas. I cringe to go fill up. I also combine my trips and only do errands if I can do more than one at a time. We have no mass transit to speak of here, just buses, and they don't always go where you need them to. I can't walk to work, or ride my bike, it's too far, so I have to drive. It sucks, because I'd really like to not drive so much.
Anita, I had this extremely LONG comment all cued to post and realized that I was going off in someone else's house...so I moved it to a post in my blog and linked back to you. Hope you don't mind. I figure if I was going to be angry I should just do it at home ;)!
Daryl - you are VERY LUCKY to have public transportation... No such thing out here in the middle of nowhere!:)
Cindy - I think that all the time... the Darfur thing is Genocide, and protecting a whole nationality from being systematically murdered... But yeah, I am a LOT more inclined to give to places that help AMERICAN children, and not ship everything over seas - like all the local food banks in cities that are EXTREMELY taxed right now because of the number of people losing their homes in the big housing mess... Surely there is a food bank within driving distance of EVERYONE reading this blog??
Anajz - I don't blame you at all for shopping while you're "out"... We plan 1 or 2 "trips out for supplies" a month, and I plan menus and lists and buy for the month... We couldn't afford to eat much if we had to pay local prices, PLUS all we have is a glorified convenience store, no grocery store yet! (Our milk is like $4.29 or something close)
LOL about the post - I find my comments turning into whole posts quite frequently! :)
Sorry all - my internet has been off most of the day and I couldn't get online!!! I was going crazy!! :O
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