What will increased Gasoline prices do to your summer? (highway, vs, state)
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I saw on the news that the price of eggs has gone up by 40% in the last year and bread is also 60 cents more than it was a ago. Now thats that B.S. right there!
look at that other commodity as well pumped and refined and shipped right here in the US and it over 4 bucks a gallon now and has been over 3 for over a year. I haven't heard about any congressional hearings to investigate price gougeing by the Dairy Farmers!!!
P.S. Gas cost won't stop us from going anywhere.........
look at that other commodity as well pumped and refined and shipped right here in the US and it over 4 bucks a gallon now and has been over 3 for over a year. I haven't heard about any congressional hearings to investigate price gougeing by the Dairy Farmers!!!
P.S. Gas cost won't stop us from going anywhere.........
you wont hear about it either. because in the end, it all comes down to the price of oil. Dairy farmers are consumers of oil also. They are just passing along their costs.
We have many driving trips planned for this year, a few overnight trips to San Francisco, a few overnight trips to Los Angeles, an overnight trip to Santa Cruz and a full week in Vancouver, Canada.
I really enjoy seeing different places, and I'm not going to live forever. The cost of fuel is just a tradeoff.
you wont hear about it either. because in the end, it all comes down to the price of oil. Dairy farmers are consumers of oil also. They are just passing along their costs.
I was attempting to draw a comparision between milk and fuel.
Oil is pumped,shipped thousand of miles,highly refined and sold for less cost then milk is and we complain about it. I'm pretty sure far less energy is used to get milk to the consumer then fuel and yet we gladly pay more for it without complaint...
Although the other thing driveing up food cost is of course ethanol production....So maybe that cost in the cost of milk???
I was attempting to draw a comparision between milk and fuel.
Oil is pumped,shipped thousand of miles,highly refined and sold for less cost then milk is and we complain about it. I'm pretty sure far less energy is used to get milk to the consumer then fuel and yet we gladly pay more for it without complaint...
Although the other thing driveing up food cost is of course ethanol production....So maybe that cost in the cost of milk???
Most people could give up drinking milk, I NEVER drink milk... so it doesn't affect me. But few people can give up buying oil, either gasoline or heating oil. All you can do is reduce as much as possible, unless you live in a city with great public transportation.... even then the high gas prices are going to cause almost everything we consume to go up, because it is either shipped across the US, or oil is needed to make it. Lots of items that you never think about are made from oil and lots of businesses will be affected. So we will be paying a lot more for everything - not just gas. Wages aren't keeping up with the rising costs either...
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I think I better buy my airline ticket to Europe asap, before the fares go up. Other than that, will only do as much driving as absolutely necessary, maybe one or two small trips (less than 2 hour drive each way). Food prices are way up here, I just came from the grocery store and it seems like the prices are up almost every week. Guess I'll be looking into cooking with legumes, lol. And we also joined a CSA and will get weekly delivery of fresh organic produce starting in late May.
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We are going to LAs Vegas this summer and have the tickets already. Other than that we only go to Tybee Island by car and that is only 200 miles or so.
Kinda makes you wonder if we should be using corn to supply our transportaion needs in addition to our food needs. Corn is a big player in the food supply.
Barring some catastrophic expense, we'll just suck it up and take our June, July and August road trips.
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