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Pacwriter
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2117
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 03:47 pm: |   |
Just for fun - using your imagination - what would be the results of $7 per gallon gas in the USA?
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Bill Nelson
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1514
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 04:55 pm: | |
The same as when it went from .75 to 1.00 and then 1.50 etc., etc. There may be a short-term back lash, but, in the end, Americans are not giving up their cars, period! It's what defines us. We truly need alternate fuels for our transportation needs and wants. But, if those (what ever they turn out to be) were in high demand, the price on them per cc or lb. or gal. or whatever, would still be high.
Bill Nelson
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Pacwriter
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2118
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 05:28 pm: | |
If gas were $7. a gallon TOMORROW. People would find work closer to where they live or carpool or use transportaion.
The Transit system in charlotte for the first time in its history went into overload. Most days - prior - there were not enough people riding the buses to pay the fuel.
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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2392
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 06:59 pm: | |
food for thought, in many of THE WESTERN STATES, with the exception of San Francisco and the bay area and some parts of the Los Angeles areas, we don't have much mass transit availability. There is very limited local bus service in most cities and towns and some places where there is none.
In the valley where I live, there are very few jobs and the houses here are located at least 7 miles from the nearest working area, so what are people supposed to do in those cases? Same scenario in many places that I have been or frequented. Many towns that are small have not enough resources to support the populations, so people have to drive sometimes 30 or more miles each way to get to a suitable or decent paying job to meet their needs. What do people do in those cases? And to top off the problem, that is where the builders are building, so new people or people wanting to move up to a better home that is still in the affordable range have to go to those smaller areas to get the home and then they start struggling with the gas issues.
It is not a question about not going anyplace or finding work where they live in many cases, so what do you suggest for that problem.
Claudia
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Scott F. Falkner
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Post Number:
96
Registered: 08-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 03:32 am: | |
Problem:
15 gallon tank in the SUV.
13 gallon tank in the minivan.
Fill up tanks once per week.
15 + 13 = 28 X $7.00 = $196.00 per week.
Solution:
Stop driving the mini-van so much. (Fill it up once every two weeks.)
15 + 6.5 = 21.5 X $7.00 = $150.50
Solution:
Drive the mini-van into a brick wall.
15 X $7.00 = $105 - $5,000 insurance policy for minivan = -$4,895
CONCLUSION:
If gas was $7.00 a gallon, I could be almost 5 grand richer and be rid of the super-ugly mini-van to boot.
I'm all for it. 
Scott F. Falkner
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