Almost March and look at the gas prices

[LarryG]

hey dont worry, that tax rebate check will get all of us at least two tank full of fuel maybe. I dont think it will get to 4 bucks a gallon, but I think we have seen the end of 2+dollar fuel.I live within 17 miles of two lakes, and one great river, my 40hp runs a long long way on 6 gals of regular, maybe not as fast, but I'll still be able to make two or three trips a week.Whats saving me is that whopping 2.8% I got on my soc.security.

[phoenix]

Well LarryG;
That's 2.8% more than I got !!
Can't even draw mine yet, hmmm guess I retired too early huh? !!

[LarryG]

Retired too early????? I got a buy out, been retired for almost 15 yrs, and never regretted it. Sure its a little rougher now, cause the cost of my insurance keeps going up, and my pension stays the same. But when they gave us that great raise, and the pager to go with it, I knew that if the chance came, I was going. Two of my friends stayed till 65, one had a stroke, and is barely able to function, the other, well his kid moved in with them, we split the area where we lived, with 10 grandkids, we knwew what was coming,We told the kids they were always welcome to visit, so what doI do with my time? NOTHING! but nothing if done right, is a job also!

[Moose1am]

I am buying all the camping gear I need so that I can drive up to the lake, fish for two days before having to come back home. If it don't rain I may fish for a week and then come home.

It use to cost me $10 to dive up to Patoka Lake and back from the East Side of Evansville, IN. That's about 1.5 hrs up there one way and 1.5 hrs back to the house. And it's mostly interstate highway.

Today it's going to cost me over $30 to do the same thing as I did 8 years ago. That's a 300% increase in OIL Prices.

And it not only effects my trucks gas cost but the cost of the oil when I change oil in the truck. The cost of groceries and the cost of anything else that we buy that has been trasported by truck or train or boat that used fuel to operate.

Everything is more expensive. Yet my wages are stagnant.

I adapted by staying close to home and fishing the local lakes more often. I can fish these lakes 9 months of the year and it only takes me 10 minutes to get to them. Plus I know these lakes like the back of my hand now and catch a lot more fish. And my last trip out I caught more bigger fish in this 90 acre strip pit that I have ever caught up at Patoka or Kentucy Lake. I am catching 12" long crappie that are fat and good eating. I use to catch little 8" crappie that were so small that I had to clean 25 of them to make a meal or two. Now these larger crappie feed me dinner with just one or two fish. But I eat a lot. LOL

I wonder if more people will buy smaller vehicles or hybrids if the price of gasoline jumps up to $4 gallon? Would you buy a new car if gas got up to $5/gallon?

Big Oil = OPEC and their friends.

Yes i have been thinking about these gas prices a lot--instead of me trying to drive back an forth to cc from Lexington 2 or 3 times a week i need to take me a tent and just stay there until IM done fishing and then go back home-- WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK OF THAT LOL?

[RoadToad]

I am buying all the camping gear I need so that I can drive up to the lake, fish for two days before having to come back home. If it don't rain I may fish for a week and then come home.

It use to cost me $10 to dive up to Patoka Lake and back from the East Side of Evansville, IN. That's about 1.5 hrs up there one way and 1.5 hrs back to the house. And it's mostly interstate highway.

Today it's going to cost me over $30 to do the same thing as I did 8 years ago. That's a 300% increase in OIL Prices.

And it not only effects my trucks gas cost but the cost of the oil when I change oil in the truck. The cost of groceries and the cost of anything else that we buy that has been trasported by truck or train or boat that used fuel to operate.

Everything is more expensive. Yet my wages are stagnant.

I adapted by staying close to home and fishing the local lakes more often. I can fish these lakes 9 months of the year and it only takes me 10 minutes to get to them. Plus I know these lakes like the back of my hand now and catch a lot more fish. And my last trip out I caught more bigger fish in this 90 acre strip pit that I have ever caught up at Patoka or Kentucy Lake. I am catching 12" long crappie that are fat and good eating. I use to catch little 8" crappie that were so small that I had to clean 25 of them to make a meal or two. Now these larger crappie feed me dinner with just one or two fish. But I eat a lot. LOL

I wonder if more people will buy smaller vehicles or hybrids if the price of gasoline jumps up to $4 gallon? Would you buy a new car if gas got up to $5/gallon?

Big Oil = OPEC and their friends.

Big Oil includes a lot more people that just OPEC. You do know how the Bush family made their money, right?

[dc chopper]

think gas is bad??? Notice diesel prices? People only look when gasing up a car or truck but when you have a semi that get's 5 mpg and takes 600 or 700 to fuel up and have to do that every 2 or so days. Wait till food, toys, well, pretty much everything we buy really starts going up. Those big trucks don't run on hope and faith.

[Trophyhunter8]

5 mpg oh my goodness had no idea they were that bad

[dc chopper]

thats on a good day. Loaded heavy and alot of hills and it can be as bad as 4mpg. Thats why we have 200-400 gallon tanks, if not we would have to stop every 200 miles to fill back up. Always remember, if you got it, a truck brought it. Everything somewhere along the line had a truck involved . I hear people complain about using trains more, well if CSX needs something in say Nashville within 12 hrs, they hire a truck. freight shipping to Baltimore on rail takes an average of 1-2 weeks, I was told that by a friend who is an engineer with CSX. Trains can't back into docks either.