Round_Gun_Shooter Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Work and play, just paid $800 for the month. I won't be traveling past my local club for some time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshidaex Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I feel for ya . Gas prices are included in my shooting budget and I wasn't expecting prices to go up stoopid high . A cheap car that gets 40 mpg would be nice. A Ford Festiva perhaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 A cheap car that gets 40 mpg would be nice. A Ford Festiva perhaps I hear ya Yoshidaex! With a Civic and a Miata as our family cars, we aren't feeling the pain - though the Miata is not exactly the ideal road trip car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RePete Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 What are you paying? A $1.25/gal? Don't feel so bad, I paid $1.20/litre (about $4USD/gal). FWIW A litre is about 1US quart. The cheapest I've ever paid for gas was .25 cents/gal. Texas 1971. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPSCDRL Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Damn Gary, I'm glad I don't keep track. I'd probably be unhappy as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 (edited) What are you paying? A $1.25/gal?Don't feel so bad, I paid $1.20/litre (about $4USD/gal). FWIW A litre is about 1US quart. The cheapest I've ever paid for gas was .25 cents/gal. Texas 1971. Average is $3.05. Tourist area so prices are high plus I am a contractor so I have to use a full size truck. Cheap gas right now is $2.99 a gallon As far as a shooting budget, that is gone now. Looks Like I am taking up Gallery Bulls Eye. Yeah Mike, I need to track it as a business deduction. Joys of being self employed. I always joke about being a sponsored shooter. My boss pays for gas, lodging, ammo, guns, food and everything else. He just decided yesterday to cut my gas budget. Edited July 10, 2007 by Round_Gun_Shooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Quit your bitching, it is about $8.00 a gallon over here, luckily I get re-imbursed for it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Quit your bitching, it is about $8.00 a gallon over here, luckily I get re-imbursed for it!!! While your there say hi to my cousins and stop trying to look up their kilts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I am a skirt chaser, NOT a Kilt chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 I am a skirt chaser, NOT a Kilt chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Work and play, just paid $800 for the month. I won't be traveling past my local club for some time gas is killing everybody, and it's also strangling our economy. That fuel cost runs through every single thing we buy and the inflation is already taking off.Too bad we can't get people to conserve. Maybe when it's $10/gallon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 It's still $3.30/gal here, but that's DOWN from $3.60 or so earlier this year. Still and all, that's about $1.50/gal MORE than what I want to pay...!!! Gah, I'm practically paralyzed with having to count every mile and put things off to cluster errands--let alone pleasure drives or taking care of things on my photo list. It's making it hard to be/stay in business. Jeez... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe4d Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Had a thought today, was in the local hardware store and they love the high gas prices, business is booming, nearest Lowes or Homedepot is 35 miles or a 20 minute fairy ride plus 10 miles,,,, Hummmm high gas prices may be good for small town economies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 You know one thing that it is going to hurt and eventually they may get involved with. High dollar SUV sales are hurting. Enough of that maybe the auto makers will get involved. In MD our new governor believes that we should be paying around $4 a gallon to conserve, and he has said that even. So he is going to increase taxes on it so that the state does not have a deficit for buying gas for state vehicles. How about that. They get us to pay for their gas and our gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 High dollar SUV sales are hurting. Enough of that maybe the auto makers will get involved. Hahaha- good one Bob! Detroit does not give a rat's ass about building fuel efficient or affordable vehicles and they went to D.C. this year to lobby congress NOT to increase fuel standards - just as they do every year. Detroit deserves what it gets (except they don't deserve legislative "protection"). Let the Mobsters - er, I meant teamsters/UAW work like the rest of us based on their education amd not congressional handouts. And no surprise to heat that M.O.M. (Martin O'Malley - MD's new gov) proposed tax increases to help you live better - yet another predictable move by the nanny state. We used to be a country of inovators and inventers. Now we are just a bunch of whiners. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robomanusa Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 The tax on gas here is like 46.4 cents per gallon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougBarnes101 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Work and play, just paid $800 for the month. I won't be traveling past my local club for some time gas is killing everybody, and it's also strangling our economy. That fuel cost runs through every single thing we buy and the inflation is already taking off.Too bad we can't get people to conserve. Maybe when it's $10/gallon? Not a rebuttal just something else to think about - Too bad we can't drill for oil right here at home and build some new refineries so that when there is a problem with one another one can pick up the slack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo radley Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 (edited) Work and play, just paid $800 for the month. I won't be traveling past my local club for some time gas is killing everybody, and it's also strangling our economy. That fuel cost runs through every single thing we buy and the inflation is already taking off.Too bad we can't get people to conserve. Maybe when it's $10/gallon? Not a rebuttal just something else to think about - Too bad we can't drill for oil right here at home and build some new refineries so that when there is a problem with one another one can pick up the slack! It's too bad the global economy is such that there are vast populations starting to recognize a way of living we -- as United State citizens -- have basically monopolized for the last 100 years or so. <shrug> We're 5% of the global population, yet use 25% of the energy -- not 'cause we're especially wanton, or lazy, but because 80% of our citizens live in comparative wealth. When folks in China start driving SUV's, too, well...ya' ain't seen nothing yet. Drill for more oil, no doubt. Build more refineries (be assured, both will be subsidized by taxpayers, and fed from the corporate welfare teat)but...do you think we'd really be the only customer? Or entitled to special pricing, from, uh, a sense of heretofore misplaced patriotism, by the oil co.'s? As far as tax affecting price, sure. It's too heavily taxed. Tell your State and Federal representatives to quit spending so much money. They listen really, really well. And yes -- I hate the high prices, too, and I hate that my truck get 18mpg, but is still cheaper to drive than buying a 3rd (!) car that's significantly more fuel efficient. Edited July 11, 2007 by boo radley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 (edited) Oh, I know. I drive a truck but am like oh well my choice. But I know where the big 3 profit lies. MOM is a pain in my arse. Edited to take out cussing. Edited July 11, 2007 by Kingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 The day someone makes a 4WD 3/4ton pickup that gets good mileage, I will own one. Until then, I am stuck with the prices that really hurt my bottom line. I need the truck to get my gear to the jobs. It is the shooting that will be curtailed not my work. Need to make the money for my other HATE//$1350 a month for health insurance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askomiko Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) How much it is nowadays in USA? $2/gallon, $3/gallon? I'd drive a 4 ton truck with those prices too, coming from 1.35€/l = $1.86/l = $7.05 / gallon. Edited July 17, 2007 by askomiko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Prices in the neighborhood HERE went down a little to about $3.23/gallon. But it changes frequently....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askomiko Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Ok, it isn't insanely cheap like it used to be, only dirt cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 How much it is nowadays in USA? $2/gallon, $3/gallon?I'd drive a 4 ton truck with those prices too, coming from 1.35€/l = $1.86/l = $7.05 / gallon. Good example - gas here IS super cheap. And $7.05 proves a modern economy can survive much higher prices. We just like to whine - which is a sad comment on the state of the USA. I hope that gas in the US goes up to $5 a gallon - nothing short of that would move some of the fat arse single-passenger SUV drivers off the D.C. beltway & into something a little more reasonable. Can't see squat around those things & none of drivers seem competent (nor able to put down their cell phones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 (edited) Work and play, just paid $800 for the month. I won't be traveling past my local club for some time gas is killing everybody, and it's also strangling our economy. That fuel cost runs through every single thing we buy and the inflation is already taking off.Too bad we can't get people to conserve. Maybe when it's $10/gallon? Not a rebuttal just something else to think about - Too bad we can't drill for oil right here at home and build some new refineries so that when there is a problem with one another one can pick up the slack! I believe we have many wells here in the US that are "capped off" because they don't become "profitable enough" to pump until crude hits about $60 - $70. Until then, it's cheaper to import. As for more refineries? Yes, the oil companies should have been building them except they might have noticed: 1) Building more refineries costs them $$$ 2) Having more refineries removes their #1 excuse for gouging on price Doesn't take an MBA in economics to see why they are not building new refineries. Edited July 18, 2007 by bountyhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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