electric cars, or any of the things sleeper said.Spock;1745530 wrote:People can choose not to use gasoline?
electric cars. Have you priced those lately. Mot people cant afford them. THey also cant afford to live in the city.j_crazy;1745579 wrote:electric cars, or any of the things sleeper said.
not practical for everyone but certainly possible for everyone to go off the fossil fuels.
a big step would be to give up the computers, smartphones etc. but anymore that's probably less feasible than giving up your car.
Start your own oil and gas company and offer gas at whatever price you want.Spock;1745589 wrote:electric cars. Have you priced those lately. Mot people cant afford them. THey also cant afford to live in the city.
Maybe 1% of the population fits into those examples.
Zunardo;1745509 wrote:
.....But a 52 cent increase in one day? Over 25%? C'mon, that strains credulity. With the exception of the day of 9-11, I've never ever seen a one-time increase that big. I remember an anomaly week sometime around 2000, when I saw the price go up 50 cents over three days. Gas was 1.59 that week, fairly high at the time, but not unheard of then. There was a 20-cent increase one day to 1.79, and I sat up and took notice, because I'd never seen it that high. Two days later it went up 30 more cents to 2.09. First time I'd seen those increases, and first time I saw the two-dollar barrier cracked in Columbus - and there was absolutely NO news coverage in the paper or TV news that week. I couldn't believe it. No wars breaking out, no shortages, no hurricanes, no threats - nothing.
I spoke too soon. Mrs. Zunardo just called minutes ago to let me say it is now 2.89 in Columbus. Let's see - 52 cent increase last week to 2.59 - then it had drifted down to 2.36 by yesterday morning - then went up yesterday afternoon to 2.59 - and up again today to 2.89?4cards;1745576 wrote:...Crude was trading today at $43.01 pb and Speedway raised their price in Medina to $ 2.87 per gal.....WTF?
I think over time you can make adjustments. When I was going to school I was driving probably 350 miles/week and that was back in '07 and '08 when gas was usually >$3.50/gal. Even last year I was driving that much for work. Finally an opportunity arose to work more hours per day and less days per week and drive half the distance while doing so. I went from spending $45 gas/week to $10. Gas could be $5/gal and I wouldn't care.j_crazy;1745579 wrote:electric cars, or any of the things sleeper said.
not practical for everyone but certainly possible for everyone to go off the fossil fuels.
a big step would be to give up the computers, smartphones etc. but anymore that's probably less feasible than giving up your car.
No shit, i literally could do my job from anywhere. I once wrote a 36 page procedure, sent it out and watched it progress on a live rig view while sitting in a tree stand bow-hunting in southern Ohio using my sister in law's Verizon Mi-Fi card. The rig was in North Dakota, and my company will not allow telecommuting and everyone must report to an office in Houston (which has incredibly bad traffic, and for the most part, bad drivers).friendfromlowry;1745630 wrote:I think over time you can make adjustments. When I was going to school I was driving probably 350 miles/week and that was back in '07 and '08 when gas was usually >$3.50/gal. Even last year I was driving that much for work. Finally an opportunity arose to work more hours per day and less days per week and drive half the distance while doing so. I went from spending $45 gas/week to $10. Gas could be $5/gal and I wouldn't care.
Not sure if this is a serious question or not, but if so, it just re-affirms everything I've said in this post. Maybe the problem is, the commodity of gasoline has everyone by the balls and now they bitch about the prices. Why is it that way? Each person can do something in their own individual lives to eliminate or minimize the impact it has.Spock;1745530 wrote:People can choose not to use gasoline?
When the prices go high enough that nobody buys gasoline, or the consumption drops enough, you have merit.friendfromlowry;1745614 wrote:I don't really give a shit because the price increases are hardly breaking anyone's bank. But I still don't see how they're justified.
Yet, it's anywhere from $2.55 - $2.69 in NW Columbus.......Spock;1746660 wrote:Well it hit a 10 year low of $39.86 today. Gas should be about $1.75 a gallon
That's because nobody in Alabama can afford carsIliketurtles;1746937 wrote:Here in Huntsville, AL its down to about $2.10 I haven't seen it over $2.30 in months.
