Tired of high gas prices? Sign this.

...tired of high gas prices?

Buy a moped...or move to a socialist country that regulates the market (like certain liberals are tyring to do or convince the public this is what needs to be done). Jesus.

Want to hear a market driven solution? Quit buying vehicles with poor gas mileage and show the manufacturers that the buyers want something more efficient and WILL NOT continue to buy something that is unefficient. Currently there is no incentive because not enough people choose to go without the vehicles that get poor mileage. Consumers have to make the choice.

While I'm all for increased drilling here in the US, it's not a short term answer. It would take a while before the benefits are noticed due to having to build new infrastructure and work it into the sytem.
 
Stang5lgt said:
So if you have 6 kids you a suppoused to strap them to the roof?
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6 kids!?!?!? My god man, buy a TV or get a hobby. :D

I have 5. :thumbup:
 
Stang5lgt said:
So if you have 6 kids you a suppoused to strap them to the roof?
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No, but you can choose a lifestyle that involves less driving. Living closer to work and school can be even better than a econobox. When I was in school I had a 3 mile comute. With a drive like that I didn't car if my truck average 13 mpg.

But now I live out in the country and have a 24 mile (one way) comute. I'm still not signing a petition to lower gas prices. But I will vote, and I will take it into consideration when I buy my next house.
 
The next person to ask me to sign a petition for lower gas prices is going to get spit on.

If you want lower gas prices, START USING LESS GAS.


Lower the demand, and they will lower the cost.
 
I vote we drop a few bombs on Beijing and Bangkok....

Less demand w/ just one B-2 sortie :)
 
I'd love to use less fuel - but not all of us have the option.

We operate on one vehicle, and I work from home. However, I've still got to run my MIL about two or three days a week (medical appointments, mostly) and that's all "stop-and-stop" driving. Go to a doctor, then another doctor, then a drugstore - and sometime take her directly from the doctor's office to the hospital. Run about for tests. Run get prescriptions (insurance companies being what they are, I can't get them all lined up to pick up on the same day, so I have to run to the drugstore about a dozen times a month. I've tried to transfer to mail-order, but it hasn't worked. And assorted patent meds. And incontinence pads. And...)

If she's in hospital, then we end up going every damn day to see her, since no-one else will (her own son and her own sister don't even call, unless we get after them to do so. Yes, we know they know she's in hospital again - we told them.)

My wife's drive to work is fairly straightforward, mostly expressway, and her hours are offset slightly so she can avoid traffic. I can't always avoid traffic when I'm running her mother about, so I often end up "stopping" more than "going"

I'm already certain that the Second American Revolution will have an economic trigger - either fuel prices or the tax bite with no real ROI - but I'm not sure what character the conflict will take. Will everyone just start not going to work en masse? Will there be "selective annihilation" of assorted company execs and decisionmakers? Will we find a way to strike back - economically? Will the SAR be political ("Spirit of '76 - Re-elect Nobody!") I don't know.

I do know it's coming. Liken this country to a pressure cooker - and the pressure keeps rising. I just don't know if it's going to blow out all at once, or if it's going to blow off through some variety of "safety valve" to attempt to sort things out.

While I'll admit to an increase in docility over the last 230 years (it's going to take quite a bit more to push us over the edge - as a people - than it did before,) that's going to make it all the more ugly when the "deer peepul" finally blast themselves out of a rut. "Still waters run deep" - the calmer someone tends to be, the worse the explosion when they finally blow up.
 
cal said:
The next person to ask me to sign a petition for lower gas prices is going to get spit on.

If you want lower gas prices, START USING LESS GAS.


Lower the demand, and they will lower the cost.
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:roflmao:...for real!
 
honda07051101.jpg


I got myself one of these...takes about 2.5 gals and can easly get 50mpg
 
srimes said:
When I was in school I had a 3 mile comute. With a drive like that I didn't car if my truck average 13 mpg.
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In England, if you live 3 miles or less from school the County expects you to walk even if you are 5 years old.
 
srimes said:
No, but you can choose a lifestyle that involves less driving. Living closer to work and school can be even better than a econobox. When I was in school I had a 3 mile comute. With a drive like that I didn't car if my truck average 13 mpg.

But now I live out in the country and have a 24 mile (one way) comute. I'm still not signing a petition to lower gas prices. But I will vote, and I will take it into consideration when I buy my next house.
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I am carpenter so sometimes I drive ten miles sometimes it is 100. So I don't have alot choice.
 
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