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.
Originally Posted by 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.
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