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Forcing the European model on Americans

Urban sprawl and the lack of mass transit has forced us into using personal oil consumption devices as our primary means of transportation. Had we decided to build smarter communities based upon mixed use in centralized areas with excellent transportation facilities, we would not care much about the price of gas would we? Take a look at Europe. They know how to build cities and towns...

Its easy to do just raise the gasoline prices to 6 or 7 bucks a gallon and promise to never lower them but to probably raise them..
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Gasoline is on the rise and some have predicted five dollar a gallon fuel by summer. A fill up can easily exceed a "C" note. If gasoline continues to increase in price it will surely effect the overall economy, but more importantly how will these high costs effect you?
Gasoline prices are going down. I buy gas at the supermarket where I buy groceries. I gas up first then buy groceries. More money for more groceries.
 

Craig

Senator
Supporting Member
Gasoline prices are going down. I buy gas at the supermarket where I buy groceries. I gas up first then buy groceries. More money for more groceries.
It's odd isn't it?

So much hew and cry over gasoline prices. Predictions of $5, $6, $7 and higher a gallon gasoline have never come close to materializing.

In concert with shopping at Safeway, which is the nearest store for groceries, we get considerable discounts at the pump. $1 off per gallon up to 25. Don't drive a ton, neither car has a big tank. Last time we took both cars, got 23.5 gallons @$2.05 per. The convenience store at the corner is down to $2.89...
 

Klunker

Council Member
I drive 30,000 to 40,000 miles/year... in a Chevy Silverado. I LOVE the lower fuel prices. We do all our grocery shopping, pharmacy, etc. at a Krogers where we build fuel points. The fuel discount helps, but the lower prices at the pump are fantastic!!!! Let's see... fuel prices down. Stock market swinging back up. Life is good!!!!!!
 

MaryAnne

Governor
I drive 30,000 to 40,000 miles/year... in a Chevy Silverado. I LOVE the lower fuel prices. We do all our grocery shopping, pharmacy, etc. at a Krogers where we build fuel points. The fuel discount helps, but the lower prices at the pump are fantastic!!!! Let's see... fuel prices down. Stock market swinging back up. Life is good!!!!!!
$2.79 here at Kroger's. Then the discount. And the market,um,um,good. So get out and vote.I already have.:)
 

Wahbooz

Governor
For your information I drive a company van, my gasoline is paid for by my company as I have a company gas card, I did not choose this vehicle as a personal choice my company did. But I do disagree that five dollar a gallon gasoline is not all that expensive as this high cost will effect millions not to mention large and small businesses across our nation. To fill up my van costs my company about one hundred and five dollars if empty at the time of fill up. I am certain my company will pass along these higher operating costs to our customers, thus prices rise, effecting our economy. Obummer will also be effected negatively in the up coming election if gasoline hits the five dollar mark, unless we all rush out and buy an Obummer taxpayer subsidized tax credit Chevy Volt and go up in smoke when it catches on fire on the way home from the dealership. NOT.
Interesting. I assume you account for personal business use with that company vehicle? That is a tax deductible expense for the company, and taxable compensation for you, so I fail to see the expense for the company.

Oh by the way, your transportation costs, to and from work, is also your compensation; and not an operating cost. Interesting indeed.

As for the Chevy Volt, I know a number of owners who have not gone 'up in smoke'.
 
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Wahbooz

Governor
Forcing the European model on Americans

That's cute. Actually what Americans have now was forced upon them when mass transit was drastically reduced. People had to buy vehicles then, which is what the auto manufacturers wanted. Ike helped that with the national highway system.

In my lifetime I can remember other modes of transportation, such as commuter trains, buses, and street cars, that carried passengers from outlying cities and even into Detroit to go to work. It was nothing to see men in suits, carrying their briefcases, hop off a bus and climb aboard the train in the morning to go to work. They got rid of that in a hurry, in order to create a market for vehicles, and today there are those in politics who fight a resurgence of mass transit.
 

EatTheRich

President
Another issue I have with liberals is their never ending belief in the right of massive entitlements that someone must actually pay for. How about get a job, pay your own way, work hard and do not expect the government to house, feed, clothe, and medicate everyone who chooses not to work.
Entitlements account for 18% of GDP, including 5% for Social Security and 3% for Medicare. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/entitlement_spending

Most of the people receiving them--the people you are telling to "get a job"--are old people.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/who-receives-benefits-from-the-federal-government-in-six-charts/


Meanwhile, from information available at the following websites it can be calculated that the income of the wealthiest 10% (making roughly $70,000 or more per year) ... few of whom are employed in productive labor ... accounted for nearly 40% of GDP. But hey, keep up the focus on those geriatric parasites.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-earners
https://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-tpi.htm
 

EatTheRich

President
Forcing the European model on Americans

That's cute. Actually what Americans have now was forced upon them when mass transit was drastically reduced. People had to buy vehicles then, which is what the auto manufacturers wanted. Ike helped that with the national highway system.

In my lifetime I can remember other modes of transportation, such as commuter trains, buses, and street cars, that carried passengers from outlying cities and even into Detroit to go to work. It was nothing to see men in suits, carrying their briefcases, hop off a bus and climb aboard the train in the morning to go to work. They got rid of that in a hurry, in order to create a market for vehicles, and today there are those in politics who fight a resurgence of mass transit.
http://www.quotes.net/mquote/104142
"That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon."
 

Wahbooz

Governor
Entitlements account for 18% of GDP, including 5% for Social Security and 3% for Medicare. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/entitlement_spending

Most of the people receiving them--the people you are telling to "get a job"--are old people.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/who-receives-benefits-from-the-federal-government-in-six-charts/


Meanwhile, from information available at the following websites it can be calculated that the income of the wealthiest 10% (making roughly $70,000 or more per year) ... few of whom are employed in productive labor ... accounted for nearly 40% of GDP. But hey, keep up the focus on those geriatric parasites.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-earners
https://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-tpi.htm
And yet this clown rambles on about free transportation, at anybody elses expense. Nothing more comical than a hypocrite bitching about something.

Buy them books, send them to school, and all they want to do is eat the covers off them. No matter how often you tell them, they'll never get it.
 
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Wahbooz

Governor
This is just crazy, the way gas prices are going. They've risen down to $1.87 gal. Howie, how can this be?
 

Wahbooz

Governor
Entitlements account for 18% of GDP, including 5% for Social Security and 3% for Medicare. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/entitlement_spending

Most of the people receiving them--the people you are telling to "get a job"--are old people.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/who-receives-benefits-from-the-federal-government-in-six-charts/


Meanwhile, from information available at the following websites it can be calculated that the income of the wealthiest 10% (making roughly $70,000 or more per year) ... few of whom are employed in productive labor ... accounted for nearly 40% of GDP. But hey, keep up the focus on those geriatric parasites.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-earners
https://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-tpi.htm
I'm going to speak openly right now, and as someone who makes over $70,000 a year. And I mean over, but won't go any further than that. It pisses me off when programs like Social Security and Medicare, programs working people paid for to protect their golden years, are referred to as 'entitlements'. When I discovered that military retirement was part of the welfare budget, that pissed me off too. Someone spends 20-30 years in uniform, risks his or her life, and that retirement is considered an entitlement program?

Is it any wonder politicians of any stripe give me heartburn. I will not vote party, I vote politician; and unfortunately I have yet to find a politician who is willing to right these wrongs.
 
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