Greed means I wont be playing much!

[m-79_Grenadier]

You could ride a bicycle to a game. That Is if you could fit all of you gear in it.

Carpooling is probably the best option, if you dont want to get some holes put in your wallet to get to a game. Gas prices are on the rise, and couple that with buying gas (airsoft), bbs, and other necessities before going to a game can get pretty pricey. Also, another option though a kind of radical chang, would to be to invest into a vehicle with considerable gas mileage. Bui the only downfall is that being so economical, most of them cant handle rough terrain. Rooks car get great gas mileage, but most of the time he has to carpool with someone else because it cant handle anything more than a flat dirt road.

[Doc Hollywood]

the price of gas went up...?? I'd better raise my hourly fees again!!

[Wolverine]

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/ ... price.html



It could be worse.

[pythonline]

I think its time I moved to Caracas Vevezuela...

VENEZUELA CARACAS $0.14

[DJ NeX]

You guys crack me up.  In Germany the price of gas has been 5 bucks per gallon for YEARS. We have it so good over here its not even funny.  And Germans keep cranking out cars like its nobody's business.  Porche, VW, Mercedes, BMW...need I say more?

[gixser13]

well in Germany whats the annual milage here its 15,000 there its  probably 8,000

there is a differnce by how much your drive
I have a buddy that lives in Japan only drives 6k a year from one end to the other

[War savage]

You guys crack me up.  In Germany the price of gas has been 5 bucks per gallon for YEARS. We have it so good over here its not even funny.  And Germans keep cranking out cars like its nobody's business.  Porche, VW, Mercedes, BMW...need I say more?

I'm glad you find this funny. I fail to find the humor in this topic.

Wow...coming from a 19yr old college student?? I'm guessing your a college student by your profile stating that your at ASU. Well....DJ NeX, lets put this into a little perspective for you. As far as I've known (since I've been driving cars and motorcycles) here in good old Phoenix Arizona, I've never seen gas higher that $3 a gallon. Your statment is completely irrelevant to people that have been paying $2.39-$2.59 (give or take $.10) for the past 3 years. To have a product that is a necessity for most in this city or country increase in cost by $.50 in the span of 1 week (actually 4 days) is preposterous and down right greed.

So when you can support yourself 100%, hold a full-time job, commute to work a minimum of 50-60 miles round trip spend $280 a month on gas and do that for the next 3 years. Please don't come onto a forum, laugh about it and try to put this into perspective for us. Us people that work hard for our money to have us spend $70 to fill our tank for the next week is a little hard to swollow. I think we have a right to complain, at least a little.

[Mooncruiser]

Consider where I live.. In Roosevelt, it's a 50 mile round trip to the nearest grocery store, hospital, doctor, dentist, auto parts, etc.

Most of the people where I live are older, have fixed incomes, or are out of work as jobs are hard to find in Gila County in general (plus that 50+mile commute each day).

Sound like an unusual situation? There are many places in America where rural towns are a long drive from services only found in a city of some size.

Also figure in the fact that gas prices (diesel too) inflate the cost of everyday goods and consumables in the U.S. You pay more and get paid less.. This leads to a depression.

Chip

[gixser13]

Also figure in the fact that gas prices (diesel too) inflate the cost of everyday goods and consumables in the U.S. You pay more and get paid less.. This leads to a depression.

Chip

Nail on the head bud!

I loaded up last week at the grocery store. I normaly spend 150 every two week(3 kids) Last week I spent 300 mostly on can goods.


I always hope for the best but prepare for the worst

[DJ NeX]

Mr. Savage, It appears that you got offended there.  The point of my post was that many people in Germany who also have lives, jobs, families, etc. have been in the same boat as we are and actually I went to look at current prices for them and its over $7 a gallon.  I just think its sad when people here in the US act as though they are being personally victimized when everywhere else, people are peachy about gas prices.  

Final Point, I actually do support myself and I do have a fulltime job while attending college. Can't say that I drive 50 miles round trip, but I guess that's the luck of the draw now isn't it.  I don't know why you don't think I work hard for my money, you don't even know me.

Bottomline: Why complain about something you have little or no control over?  Sure it sucks that prices have gone up, but there's nothing I can do about it so I've accepted it and I'm moving on with my life.

[Cheeze_IZ_G00d]

The deal with European gas prices is simply this, a lot of the money is tax. That tax is then transferred to public projects. Furthermore, you don't see too many German's running around in their gas-guzzling SUVs. The oil companies are just greedy, plain and simple.

[gixser13]

Bottomline: Why complain about something you have little or no control over?  Sure it sucks that prices have gone up, but there's nothing I can do about it so I've accepted it and I'm moving on with my life.

Is that what they teach in college nowadays, just go with the flow

Wow want happen to protesting

[War savage]

Final Point, I actually do support myself and I do have a fulltime job while attending college. Can't say that I drive 50 miles round trip, but I guess that's the luck of the draw now isn't it.  I don't know why you don't think I work hard for my money, you don't even know me.

Bottomline: Why complain about something you have little or no control over?  Sure it sucks that prices have gone up, but there's nothing I can do about it so I've accepted it and I'm moving on with my life.

Your right Mr. NeX. I don't know you. I don't even know your real name. But what I do know is that if you think your fulltime job is sufficient for you to have the nice car you WANT to drive and have the nice house you WANT with a full blown mortgage, let alone be married or have a child to support. By all means I want to know where you work. I want your job.

Better yet....let me take the extra $40 out of your check every 2 weeks. If you don't care that these gas and oil companies are steam rolling you for money, s**t I might as well get a little piece of you also.

Unfortunately yes, we have to pay these ridiculous prices for gas to function through our everyday lives. But that doesn't mean we should just except it just because some poor smuck in Europe pays $6 a gallon for his gas. Who cares about those people. If we let it go on we may be paying the same prices also. Yes we have worse things to deal with like disaster relief in the Gulf, war in Iraq and poor starving people in our country. But you live in a country that will not stand for dictatorship when it effects we the peoples quality of life.

So Again....Mr. NeX!!! Till you've walked in some peoples shoes and put a few notches on your belt. Don't come here and laugh at us people that complain about gas prices till you graduate. I'm sure your an intelligent guy since your in college (although I've met dumb one to) but It's just a slap in the face to the people on this forum. Don't compare us to other countries. If we all had that same attitude than heck we should be paying $6 a gallon.

[GUNFIGHTER6]

Yeah I love all the great words of wisdom from the teenagers who live at home and have few if any expenses.  I'll tell you personally, that I am begning to sweat the increase in prices.  I work for the rail road, and make pretty good, money, and I'm worried.  Why am I worried...glad you asked.  If the price of gas stopped climbing it would be one thing, but as we have seen it continues to go up and up.  I have been back in AZ since June of 2003 and in a little over two years the price of gas has gone up almost $1.50 per gallon.  That may not sound like much untill you realize that most of the salaries in this state have not gone up even $.05 per hour in that same time frame.  For those who think we should stop complaining about gas because its more expensive elsewhere, you are forgetting that the average salary in those countries is probably quite a bit higher, or mass transit is more of an option.  In my job right now I work on call 24 hours a day, and if called I have an hour and a half to get to work.  How am I supposed to take a bus from chandler to central phoenix in that kind of time.  I don't even live closer than a mile or two from a bus station.  The way this valley is spread out, and the 24 hour nature of most jobs, gas is a necessity, not a luxury.

[-MAD- SARGE]

Well all I have to say is that price gouging has been going on here in the valley for at least 8 years or so that I know of.  Why can I say that? Here's why.  Have you noticed that when ever you go out of town like to prescott and payson that gas prices are cheaper there than down here?  Well that in its self does not make since.  Down here we have a gasoline pipeline that feeds the valley with fuel.  Anyone else like payson, and such have to truck the gas that much further every time they need a fill up.  How can it be that after paying all those additional costs that Payson is still cheaper than the valley who only has to truck it across town?