So you want a tank of gas, do ya?

[CrealCritter]

You want me to run a credit report, so you can take out a loan to pay, for that tank of gas?

 

[Lazy Gardener]

there's been major storms and winter supply is always interesting. add to that the changes to the system due to The Crud[tm].

it's not the same as it was before, it may not ever be the same as before, or it might indeed get cheap again. i don't know.

what i do know, a lot of people drive big gas guzzling hogs for no real reason.

i drove a small car that was fun to drive and got decent gas mileage for over 20yrs, i'm pretty sure those cars still exist.

This forum is mostly populated by folks who are routinely carrying huge loads of animal feed, building supplies, 16' long cattle panels, yards of soil, compost, gravel, wood chips, manure. And, most of us live in rural settings. I live in snow country: need 4WD. A small car may be practical in the city, for the urbanite. But it would be totally useless for me, and many other members of this forum. As for blaming winter weather on the price of gas: Winter happens to be an annual event. Last time I saw gas pushing to the $4.oo/gal mark was during Obama years. During Trump years, the price has steadily decreased to the lowest level I've seen in 15 years. And, the price continued to go down during the last year of President' Trump's tenure (during the first 11 months of the covid plandemic). When I drive to town, it is a planned event. I fill up car or truck with all the supplies necessary to last us for a while. Long term grocery shopping, plus all the supplies to keep the farmstead running. a tiny car would be totally counterproductive. I'm glad that such a vehicle works for you. I totally lay all of the blame on the surge in gas prices, and the future resulting inflation on emperor biden and his pen.

 

[CrealCritter]

Gas here is now up to 2.50/gal and diesel is 3.25 and up different places.... That's $.60 in less than 4 months.

Yep... And just wait... If fuel prices continue to rise, most everything you buy will become more expensive.

I forgot the exact number, but the percentage of the number of items that sees a ship, jets, semis, trains or delivery trucks, at least once, before you buy it from the store is very high.

Higher transportation costs, means high costs at the stores. It's a no win/no win situation. We the consumers, will pay for the offset

Common Sense

 

[CrealCritter]

there's been major storms and winter supply is always interesting. add to that the changes to the system due to The Crud[tm].

it's not the same as it was before, it may not ever be the same as before, or it might indeed get cheap again. i don't know.

what i do know, a lot of people drive big gas guzzling hogs for no real reason.

i drove a small car that was fun to drive and got decent gas mileage for over 20yrs, i'm pretty sure those cars still exist.

Could you get a bunch of 2x4's, plywood and bags of of cement in that small car? I'm envisioning something like this...

 

[CrealCritter]

Yep, right on! And we all chipped in for a couple gal of gas to ride around on Fri night.

And no $100 car keys.

You could actually "cruise" those 70's cars. Advance the timing one or two degrees. Punch the gas then let off the gas pedal and go a long ways on the fumes the days of cruising are gone with electronic ignition and computer sensors. The closest I get get now is with a trailer loaded with several tons, but it's not the same.

I had an old 68 ford PU that I traded some stuff for. It had a button clutch, the strangest thing when that clutch hit the flywheel you knew it... Bam, It would jerk you and put your head against the back window. If you hit it just right it would lift the front tires off the ground. I never could figure out why that truck threw flames out of the exhaust pipes when you would get on it in second and third gears. It was quite impressive and scary at the same time.

After bleach burning through a set of rear tires and two tickets. I sold it back to the guy I traded it for. That truck was nothing but plain trouble for a young guy like me. I seem to recall pulling up to the gas station and filling up on oil and checking the gas.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

I learned standard shift on a little powder blue volkswagon. First full time job was pushing a mop at the hospital. Take home pay was around $65/wk. We lived in an apartment in town. One car. Hubby usually walked or rode his bike to work, and I took the car, since my job was farther away. We lived on one pay check, saved the other. We were able to buy land and start building our home within 2 years. Groceries: $22/week bought 3 - 4 bags. We walked across the street to buy groceries, then pushed the cart back into the parking lot after we'd taken the groceries into the apartment. I think that a lot of our current national financial woes are related to sense of entitlement: People feel entitled to having NEW everything. And DOUBLE everything. 2 TV's, 2 (or more) cars. A lot of folks consider a car to be "old" if it's past the 2 year mark. Go out to eat all the time. Spend thousands of $$$ on a wedding, then thousands $$$ on a honey moon, and then, they must furnish their home with NEW everything. Clothing.... designer fashion all the way.... A lot of women are high maintenance: I was in a friend's bathroom the other day, and counted 35 bottles/tubes of personal care goop in shower and on counter. This was just the stuff that was out! The linen closet and all other drawers were also stuffed. Then... there's the hair dresser appointments, the manicures and pedicures.... and on it goes. If I were a man, I'd surely be thinking twice about taking on the debt that goes along with wedding a "princess". Of course... that last thought process can go the other way, also... Lots of men have very expensive hobbies.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Time to buckle down: Use, reuse, recycle, upcycle. Grow it, dry it, can it, freeze it.

 

[farmerjan]

Gas here is now up to 2.50/gal and diesel is 3.25 and up different places.... That's $.60 in less than 4 months.

 

[henless]

Same here. It's higher than it has been for the last few years.

 

[flowerbug]

there's been major storms and winter supply is always interesting. add to that the changes to the system due to The Crud[tm].

it's not the same as it was before, it may not ever be the same as before, or it might indeed get cheap again. i don't know.

what i do know, a lot of people drive big gas guzzling hogs for no real reason.

i drove a small car that was fun to drive and got decent gas mileage for over 20yrs, i'm pretty sure those cars still exist.