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i was robbed yesterday
Published Apr. 25, 2008
It happened at a Kangaroo as I was pumping $20 worth of gas in my vehicle. I didn't even know it happened until I got in my car and cranked it up to leave the store. That's when I looked down at my gas gauge and noticed that the needle appeared broken. It moved up just past a quarter of a tank, well below the half-tank that $20 used to put it at just a few months ago. In despair, I looked at the price per gallon on the pump and it was $3.709/gallon. I have to run super-grade in my vehicle due to some bad gas I got two years ago. Now if I run regular, it will make the engine knock like crazy. So I'm stuck with the most expensive gas there is.
I cannot believe that oil has increased like it has in such a short time, with no end in sight. If we're not in an official recession (per media talk), then it's merely a matter of time before it becomes headlines. Everything is now going to skyrocket in price. From food to electricity, to water to rent...you need to prepare for the robbers to hit your front door because they are coming.
Households living on the edge of financial breakage need to start cutting back where they can and everywhere they can. That includes me.
During the election year when Regan took office, gas broke a dollar a gallon and continued to go up at a faster than normal rate. I have seen enough to believe that politicial factors have a direct impact on gas prices. So fasten your seatbelts and hang on, cause until these elections are over, I predict that gasoline is going to impeach them dollars right out of your wallets.
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GOLO member since December 5, 2007
April 28, 2008 4:16 p.m.
If you want change get rid of these "lifers" that actually run the country....... and are so self serving they do the public no good anyway. Dems,Reps,Libs, - no matter what you call them - what they do on the 'silver screen' is one thing but they are all in bed together....... they just like for you to think it is different.
GOLO member since July 20, 2007
April 28, 2008 7:59 a.m.
The consumer economy is a big engine and can't be ignored, but it has to be directed well, and, as blackdog alludes, it can't pull everything.
Just as we can't send all our consumer dollars off to export-land, we can't keep sending our infrastructure dollars off to the middle east. Bridges, roads, waterways, water/sewer repairs, desalination plants to supplement water supplies, wind and solar farms. Every dollar we spend on them here has a multiplier effect on the economy: Taxes come in to .gov, who spend them on plans and materials, generating U.S. jobs AND improve our standard of living.
Call it tax-and-spend if you like, I prefer to see it as public works that might make the country liveable again. At least we'd see the results of our spending. I'd rather see improved roads than dwindling currency and the dying days of empire.
April 27, 2008 7:13 p.m.
This libertarian will say, "Huh. The conservative talking points for the '03 recession included a healthy dose of 'don't blame W for the economy: this was all started on the LAST GUY'S watch.'" I expect that whoever wins will be happy to hang W higher than Haman using the same talking points for the then-ongoing 08-09 recession/credit crunch.
April 27, 2008 7:02 p.m.
April 27, 2008 11:21 a.m.
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April 27, 2008 10:19 a.m.
GOLO member since March 22, 2008
April 27, 2008 9:41 a.m.
These people will probably still cling to their belief that Bush is still pulling some magic strings and pushing the prices up.
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April 26, 2008 11:39 p.m.
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April 26, 2008 4:44 p.m.
April 26, 2008 4:30 p.m.
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