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I feel the cost of fuel hard. I am a salesman. I pay for all my own gas. The more gas goes up, the less I earn. I have to sell more or raise my prices. The option to sell more is not always there. Raising prices comes with a risk; that customers will do without or shop for alternatives. To offset the rising cost of gas we're driving less. We're also considering a food co-op and trimming expenses in other areas.
I am currently driving 84 miles a day to work. We are moving in about a month and my trip to work will be reduce to five miles a day. I presently drive an hour to get to my church. After we move the trip will take less than 20 minutes.
That will be a significant savings in dollars and in my own physical energy.
God is good.
We have felt it here, too. What makes it difficult is the rising cost of food along with the gas. We have started going back to the outdoor market for fresh fruits and veggies where prices are better. We are also going to the local u-pick farms, buying in season fruits and veggies in bulk and freezing or canning them. We are blessed to live close enough to most of these types of places to make it worth our while. And Bill, we always have fresh eggs!![]()
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We have felt it here, too. What makes it difficult is the rising cost of food along with the gas. We have started going back to the outdoor market for fresh fruits and veggies where prices are better. We are also going to the local u-pick farms, buying in season fruits and veggies in bulk and freezing or canning them. We are blessed to live close enough to most of these types of places to make it worth our while. And Bill, we always have fresh eggs!![]()
it jumped to like $3.75 a gallon here today.
It is hitting us hard as well, my husband planted me a garden last weekend, and granted we won't reap the benefits of that for a couple months..it will help some.
Something my husband and I have discussed in the past is locating a place to buy a side of beef, maybe going in with a couple other families, maybe save some money that way long term not having to buy as much so often..
Maybe, Lord willing it won't be too long before the price drops back down to a more reasonable price.
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Do you have a deep freezer? My wife and I have talked about investing in one when we get our stimulus check.
I am quite certain we will never see 'low' gas prices again in any of our lifetimes. All of the analysts I have heard are saying the same thing.
Even if it the price of gas goes down, it doesn't matter. The value of the dollar will continue to go lower and lower and lo ...
To put it simply: the world have to wake up and realize the current mind-set of economy (everybody tries to be the next USA) is not sustainable, the global resources simply do not and cannot sustain our current economical structure. We are still applying mostly 19th century economic philosophy on a world that is complete different than philosophers like Adam Smith and others can ever dream of.
Paid 3.98 a gal last night. 20 gal tank = 80 bucks, to drive @ 350 miles, thither and yon.
I think they want us to "stay at home, shut up, and walk slowly, so we can monitor you."
I disagree, not because this isn't a crisis, but where the blame is laid. This is being blamed on capitalism, but this is mistaken. We are NOT capitalist; we are fabian, socialist, and mercantilist.To put it simply: the world have to wake up and realize the current mind-set of economy (everybody tries to be the next USA) is not sustainable, the global resources simply do not and cannot sustain our current economical structure. We are still applying mostly 19th century economic philosophy on a world that is complete different than philosophers like Adam Smith and others can ever dream of.
In other words, little has changed except for the worse since Adam Smith's critique of the prevailing mercantilist system back in the 18th century. The moderate freedom from govt regulation that was achieved, and led to greater all-around prosperity has been rolled back.
Big-corporate welfare kills. Wall Street corporations pay the govt to create barriers to entry, to protect them from competition, and then take back the cash in the form of govt rents, and the higher prices they can charge consumers. So, we pay them, and we pay taxes that eventually get to them routed through our masters (who live luxuriously on the huge salaries and expense accounts we pay them, and on their lavish gifts from the corporatists).
Distortions to the market are govts FAULT, and it certainly will not be fixing its own problems soon. First, it must destroy our currency, to sustain its parasitic existence. Then, it will try to make serfs of all of us.
Don't take my word for it. Read a history book.
Paid 3.98 a gal last night. 20 gal tank = 80 bucks, to drive @ 350 miles, thither and yon.
I think they want us to "stay at home, shut up, and walk slowly, so we can monitor you."
Exactly right. The whole state of MI is in a dire position because we've only two refineries...
You guys keep really messing up your quotes, making it appear that certain people said something they did not say.
Do you have a deep freezer? My wife and I have talked about investing in one when we get our stimulus check. You can put things like meats and vegetables up and freeze them so they will be on hand later when you need them.