My two cents worth
Ok, so I'm talking to a friend about the lengths people go to get the cheapest gas they can find around town. Apparently, some will travel up to 10 MILES to get gas that is about 10 cents cheaper per gallon... even giving the benefit of the doubt, we'll say 15 cents. So you just drove a total of 20 miles to get gas on a roundtrip. Gas right now averages about 2.20 in Texas, closer to 2.00 in Houston. 20 miles burns about one gallon of gas for the average vehicle in town driving. A normal tank holds about 15 gallons. Say I'm on empty and fill up... I just "saved" 15 *15 = $2.25. But, wait a minute... I just used an extra $2.20 to go there and back. IN a place like Houston, 10 miles normally takes about 30 min in reasonable traffic. So is a NICKEL worth a half hour of your time?
Say you fill up once a week for a year doing this. You just saved a grand total of 52 *5 = $2.60. YIPPPEEEEEE!!! I can buy 2 more orders of 5 pc nuggets from Wendy's and have enough left to get a soft-serve cone from Mcdonalds! Oh, but wait... I just spent $2.60 in gas GOING to Wendy's and Mcdonalds...
Get a clue people!!! If you aren't saving at least 3-5 cents per gallon per mile you drive for it then it really isn't worth it.
Also, why does everybody thinks gas prices are coming down due to political reasons?!? I mean seriously.. do you think the price only goes down in the USA?? Canada dropped to .89 c/L avg this week also... and western Europe is down as well. It's not a coincidence.. it's called supply and demand. Bush isn't out having 200 chinese babies every 5 minutes making the demand skyrocket. Condi Rice isn't heating the tropical Atlantic in hopes that a category 4 hurricane will spurn and take out our gulf supplies. It's not their fault that maniacs like Chavez and Iran's pres Ahmadinejad have control over oil fields... or that OPEC will not allow barrels to drop under a certain range. People are greedy!!! Once oil tycoons see this money come in with crude this high they don't want to see it drop. Don't expect barrels to drop below $50-55 anytime soon... OPEC won't have it.
All I ask though, please, is to simply do some research on issues before starting the blame game. Oh, and stop complaining! $2.00 gas is here to stay.. it's not that bad, our parents had it worse in the 1980 crisis.
Anyway... I'm done ranting and raving.
Say you fill up once a week for a year doing this. You just saved a grand total of 52 *5 = $2.60. YIPPPEEEEEE!!! I can buy 2 more orders of 5 pc nuggets from Wendy's and have enough left to get a soft-serve cone from Mcdonalds! Oh, but wait... I just spent $2.60 in gas GOING to Wendy's and Mcdonalds...
Get a clue people!!! If you aren't saving at least 3-5 cents per gallon per mile you drive for it then it really isn't worth it.
Also, why does everybody thinks gas prices are coming down due to political reasons?!? I mean seriously.. do you think the price only goes down in the USA?? Canada dropped to .89 c/L avg this week also... and western Europe is down as well. It's not a coincidence.. it's called supply and demand. Bush isn't out having 200 chinese babies every 5 minutes making the demand skyrocket. Condi Rice isn't heating the tropical Atlantic in hopes that a category 4 hurricane will spurn and take out our gulf supplies. It's not their fault that maniacs like Chavez and Iran's pres Ahmadinejad have control over oil fields... or that OPEC will not allow barrels to drop under a certain range. People are greedy!!! Once oil tycoons see this money come in with crude this high they don't want to see it drop. Don't expect barrels to drop below $50-55 anytime soon... OPEC won't have it.
All I ask though, please, is to simply do some research on issues before starting the blame game. Oh, and stop complaining! $2.00 gas is here to stay.. it's not that bad, our parents had it worse in the 1980 crisis.
Anyway... I'm done ranting and raving.
posted by Benjamin K at 9/29/2006 05:09:00 AM
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