This is so sad

[Reverend Rick]

Today, I stopped and bought gasoline. This young woman stopped me and asked if I had a gas can. I said no I'm sorry but I do not. Her car ran out of gas and she was flat broke. I helped her push it to the pump and put in enough to get her home. She said, "God bless you".

People cannot afford to put gas in their cars. The price of gasoline is outragious! I felt sorry for this person all afternoon. This is truly sad. People are used to putting a few dollars in their tank every time they go somewhere and that will not work any more. It takes 20 bucks just to mow my grass.

 

[illykitty]

UK's price is almost double that of the US, at USD 2.37$ per litre or 8.97$ per gallon according to Wiki... It certainly is a good thing that my husband walks to work (it's really close by) otherwise we probably would be tight with me not having a job. It is sad, something everyone around the world has to deal with.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

At an upper limit of $5 a gallon, it really takes 4 gallons of gas to mow your lawn? You've either got quite the souped- up lawnmower or an absolutely massive property. Do you own a sod farm?

In a way, I kind of hope that gas prices stay high, because I think most of these problems like you describe come from price spikes, not sustained high prices.

If gas prices went up and stayed up, we'd adjust our lives: we would move closer to our wotkplaces or care more about whether we lived near good transit, etc. Most of the problems come from relying on cheap gas, so if it makes sense not to rely on it in the first place, then we don't suffer as much when gas prices do go up.

I'm in a condo now, so I don't cut my oen grass any more, but when I did, I had a push mower. The price of gas had absolutely no bearing on how much it would cost me to mow my lawn.

 

[sandandfoam]

We went to visit my parents at the weekend - €120 on petrol. Still cheaper than the train but it's mad.

 

[Revoltingest]

Today, I stopped and bought gasoline. This young woman stopped me and asked if I had a gas can. I said no I'm sorry but I do not. Her car ran out of gas and she was flat broke. I helped her push it to the pump and put in enough to get her home. She said, "God bless you".

People cannot afford to put gas in their cars. The price of gasoline is outragious! I felt sorry for this person all afternoon. This is truly sad. People are used to putting a few dollars in their tank every time they go somewhere and that will not work any more. It takes 20 bucks just to mow my grass.

Dang, man...time to let some of it go wild or get a stingier mower!
I mow something under 4 acres & it takes a little under 2 gallons.

 

[Reverend Rick]

it really takes 4 gallons of gas to mow your lawn? You've either got quite the souped- up lawnmower or an absolutely massive property.

Both, I'm serious it takes that much. 20 bucks will not fill up a golf cart now. :no:

 

[Reverend Rick]

Dang, man...time to let some of it go wild or get a stingier mower!
I mow something under 4 acres & it takes a little under 2 gallons.

I mow 10 of my 40 acres with a John Deere 500 series small tractor. It takes about a six pack every time too.

 

[Reverend Rick]

You want to to talk pain @ the pump? My smaller boat has a 100 gallon tank while the big one has a 300 gallon tank. I had to have a talk with my credit card company, they would not approve a fill up that large.

 

[sandandfoam]

You want to to talk pain @ the pump? My smaller boat has a 100 gallon tank while the big one has a 300 gallon tank. I had to have a talk with my credit card company, they would not approve a fill up that large.

I heard a story recently about a person who took an aquaintance on their boat across a stretch of water near here for a pint. The aquaintance insisted on paying for the diesel. I heard his pint cost €80.
Boats are an expensive business. I forsee the return of sail .

 

[Revoltingest]

I heard a story recently about a person who took an aquaintance on their boat across a stretch of water near here for a pint. The aquaintance insisted on paying for the diesel. I heard his pint cost €80.
Boats are an expensive business. I forsee the return of sail .

I favor the canoe paddle.

 

[Willamena]

I favor the canoe paddle.

Nah... too easy to lose when you're up a creek.

 

[Panda]

You want to to talk pain @ the pump? My smaller boat has a 100 gallon tank while the big one has a 300 gallon tank. I had to have a talk with my credit card company, they would not approve a fill up that large.

Do you not have special tax free fuel for your boat?

 

[Reverend Rick]

I heard a story recently about a person who took an aquaintance on their boat across a stretch of water near here for a pint. The aquaintance insisted on paying for the diesel. I heard his pint cost €80.
Boats are an expensive business. I forsee the return of sail .

I'm asking myself when enough is going to be enough. Right now, I'm thinking about just cutting back, I may just quit all together one day soon.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I heard a story recently about a person who took an aquaintance on their boat across a stretch of water near here for a pint. The aquaintance insisted on paying for the diesel. I heard his pint cost €80.
Boats are an expensive business. I forsee the return of sail .

Heh... I first heard a boat described as "a hole in the water that you throw money into" long before gas prices got to where they are now.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Do you not have special tax free fuel for your boat?

Nah, the marina gets the rebate not the customer. They charge about a dollar a gallon above street price as well. The service is good however.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Heh... I first heard a boat described as "a hole in the water that you throw money into" long before gas prices got to where they are now.

BOAT used to stand for Break Out Another Thousand. Now it stands for Break Out Another Ten grand

 

[HerDotness]

Yeah, well, Americans are finally getting to know what it's like to pay somewhere near the kind of gas prices the rest of the world has paid for decades.

It's about time we quit whining and making ourselves appear unable to deal maturely with the reality that gas costs what it does and will probably cost still more in the near future.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Yeah, well, Americans are finally getting to know what it's like to pay somewhere near the kind of gas prices the rest of the world has paid for decades.

It's about time we quit whining and making ourselves appear unable to deal maturely with the reality that gas costs what it does and will probably cost still more in the near future.

I think the reality is starting to sink in to our hard heads. All my toys run on gasoline.

 

[Mister_T]

Today, I stopped and bought gasoline. This young woman stopped me and asked if I had a gas can. I said no I'm sorry but I do not. Her car ran out of gas and she was flat broke. I helped her push it to the pump and put in enough to get her home. She said, "God bless you".

People cannot afford to put gas in their cars. The price of gasoline is outragious! I felt sorry for this person all afternoon. This is truly sad. People are used to putting a few dollars in their tank every time they go somewhere and that will not work any more. It takes 20 bucks just to mow my grass.

It's times like this where I wish we had a viable public transportation here in Southern California. At least if I was in some place like New York or Boston, I could always take the subway to get places.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Seriously though, this woman was stuck like chuck with no gasoline and no money. I know what she did, she was used to putting her last 5 or 10 bucks in the tank and driving to town and back only this time it did not work. I really feel bad for her.