Boycott Gas

[Jessica Leigh]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

Are you guys moaning about the price of petrol again?! LMAO

Pip

yeah but Pip, what's your minimum wage there? 4.85 gbp/hour? that equals about 8.76 US dollars per hour... right? i just did the math, and you filling up for 40 pounds (72 american dollars) compared to your minimum wage, is exactly the same as me spending $42 for my tank of gas with our minimum wage at $5.15/hour. your gas tank costs 8.22 hours worked for a minimum wage worker... and my gas tank costs 8.16 hours of work for a minimum wage worker. my point is that you guys may pay more than we do, but you also make more money than we do. but it equals out, so we all have the same right to bitch and moan as the next person.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Of course you have as much right to bitch and moan!

Pip

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Janet

#1. I can't buy a new car. I don't have 20K or 10K or 100 dollars to my name right now.

#2. Not buying gas for a day, again, as Dissention said, everyone would spend twice as much the day before.

#3. The world is just turning into a crazy place.

I know. We're in the era of the oil wars now. Maybe we should just go back to horses.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Lux

I say you should have shot them.

I wasn't armed at the time.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by diamondsnake

Gas prices truely have gotten out of control. It cost me $40 to fill up my car yesterday. $40!!!!! I about had a heart attack!

$40 may seem like nothing to some people, but to this jobless high schooler, it is a lot!!!

It was $52 to fill up my daughter's Reagan era Volvo the other day.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Jessica Leigh

exactly!! minimum wage is not going up with the cost of living- did you know that federal minimum wage has not gone up one penny in almost 8 years? back then, eight years ago, i was in high school and worked part time and could fill up my gas tank for about $15. less than three hours' work. NOW, my tank fills up for about $42... which, if i was still making minimum wage, would be about 8 hours of work. 8 hours!

That's because our president thinks it's great that Americans work three jobs.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

Of course you have as much right to bitch and moan!

Pip

Thank you.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

not true... Honda Civic hybrid starts at $19,900

Toyota Prius' are about $22,000 (which is approx what my parents paid for theirs) And, theirs is fairly well-equipped (No GPS direction finder thingy...that saved them $2,000 right there)

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Toyota Prius' are about $22,000 (which is approx what my parents paid for theirs) And, theirs is fairly well-equipped (No GPS direction finder thingy...that saved them $2,000 right there)

I think you can do the GPS thing after market for a lot less than that.

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Toyota Prius' are about $22,000 (which is approx what my parents paid for theirs) And, theirs is fairly well-equipped

people need to get the idea that hybrids are not "affordable"... because that isn't true anymore...

thanks for posting that..

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

people need to get the idea that hybrids are not "affordable"... because that isn't true anymore...

thanks for posting that..

Exactly...I think a lot of folks have that impression...but they are UGLY! lol

[LuckyCharms]

I am sooo glad I don't work at a gas station anymore. Though I do reacall 5 years ago when I did and gas went down to like 89 cents, now there be some happy customers! Now I'm not the smarterest, and I don't doubt that there would be some reason this wouldn't work, but what if instead of just boycotting the gas people boycotted the reason for the gas? I mean like what if every one picked a weekend to stay home instead of going out. They wouldn't need to fill up the night before because they wouldn't be going anywhere.

[gldstwmn]

Buy Citgo if you can.

[seeker007nmss]

Does this mean you can't eat bean burritos on that day either?

[diamondsnake]

$72 in the UK to fill up a beattle!!!! That's insane!!! Does it cost that much more in Europe? If gas ever gets that expensive over here... then I am taking the bus.