[quote=picklemonkey]guys, a $.10 raise is only $1/10 gallons. if you guys can't afford spending an extra $1.50 in gas, quit buying your starbucks once a week, cut your smoking down by a pack, take your lunch to work once a week, or buy one less dimebag than you normally would. seriously... a $.50/increase in gas is only the cost of lunch once a week. :roll:[/quote]

If only it were that simple, think about the scope of the situation:

Everything you buy-- food, clothing, records, whatever- got to the store on a truck. It originally came from somewhere by plain train or boat. All of these use oil based fuel. Plastic is made from petrol based chemicals. As the price of oil goes up, that cost is passed on to the consumer.

Thus, the price of oil has a HUGE effect on our economy. Obviously the current spike is related to a natural disaster, but the handwriting is on the wall.

intelligence is priceless. ^

+5 kobe! 8)

then quit buying starbucks twice a week :not me:

whats a starbucks?

i dont drink coffee or espresso, or latte, or cappucino. dont smoke cigarettes either. i dont buy jackoff mags cos there's plenty of wacking material online. about the only clutch i have is pepsi, and a dubsackaweek.

[quote=picklemonkey]then quit buying starbucks twice a week :not me:[/quote]

maybe you should quit using the internet :P

PS- true fact about me: I have only been inside a Starbucks once, and I didn't buy anything!! I rule :CandyPop:

I don't buy Starbucks either. I'm a $.25-cent coffee drinker, black.

[quote=picklemonkey]then quit buying starbucks twice a week :not me:[/quote] You have to understand the further economic impact of this tragedy. It's not about a $.10 rise in gasoline prices (and btw, I don't know where you guys are that it's risen by only $.10, it's risen by $.30 from last night until mid-afternoon here). The daily commuters are not the ones directly affected by this, but we as consumers will all feel the pain because of trucking companies, airlines, and other industries that are oil-reliant. Crude oil prices have risen nearly $30 this year, that [b]WILL[/b] have a trickle-down effect to what we're paying for products and services. The question is just how long it will take.

fine, just quit buying starbucks altogether

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seeing that the rise in gas prices is inevitable, how many are actually gonna ask for a raise and by how much ?

No one is going to ask for a raise. For the sole reason that the economy is not strong enough and signs are pointing in the direction of another possible recession. People don't feel confident enough to go in asking for more money. Just my opinion.

i asked for a raise. boss said he'd give me another $1.00 an hour. got my check monday, he failed to do so. :(

[quote=picklemonkey]fine, just quit buying starbucks altogether[/quote]

Not to take into account that gas has risen about 80 cents since the start of the year. It cost me about 21 to 22 dollars to fill my Honda Civic up in the beginning of the year and now its costing me 31 to 32 dollars. Times that by 4, and it's costing approximately 36 dollars more a month times 12 = approximately 432 dollars more a year. I don't know about you, but that added money would be doing me better sitting in my 401K.

Oh yeah, I don't buy starbucks or smoke cigarettes and I already bring my lunch to work 4 times a week.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to miss Digweed this Friday at Spirit!

:lol: it [i]would[/i] look nicer in your 401k, but did you actually adjust your benefits to keep the 36 bucks? or would you have adjusted it to put in an additional 36 bucks if gas prices hadn't gone up?

I guess it doesn't bother me as much because I live about 2 miles from work so I only have to fill my car once or twice a month. then again, maybe I don't give a shit because there's nothing I can do about it. an extra 10 bucks a month isn't going to break a person... it's only 33 cents a day.

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Yeah, I'm in Canada and our prices are getting close to and even breaking the dollar per L margin. Oh well, drive less you fat monkeys! :lol:

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[quote=fkid]Yeah, I'm in Canada and our prices are getting close to and even breaking the dollar per L margin. Oh well, drive less you fat monkeys! :lol:[/quote] it's aboot time you loud-mouthed blokes talk less :not me:

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[quote=picklemonkey][quote=fkid]Yeah, I'm in Canada and our prices are getting close to and even breaking the dollar per L margin. Oh well, drive less you fat monkeys! :lol:[/quote] it's aboot time you loud-mouthed blokes talk less :not me:[/quote]

I'm not sure if you're upset because of my "fat monkeys" reference? However, I was only joking around. By the way, I've lived most of my life and was born in Ukraine and only stupid people say "aboot" anyway. I wasn't saying Americans are fat monkeys, I just meant "you" as in anyone reading this and complaining about gas prices. It is not a good situation, but making humour out of it is not a bad idea.

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that 8 is upside down.

[quote]Service station manager Randy Schuette is getting quite a workout changing the gasoline prices on his station's large sign.

"I bet I'm not done, either," he said Wednesday, hoisting price placards with a 20-foot pole at his station in Bismarck, N.D. At one point, he ran out of decimals, so a gallon's cost read $317.[/quote]

wow! :CrackUp:

Brace for the worst right now...it may not hit 1970s style, but then again that was because there was an actual shortage...right now, it's more that there's not much of a way to deliver it :?

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Well, around here it?s insane too.

Especially taking into account that we?re one of the countries in Europe with the lowest wages (certainly the lowest in Western Europe, at least), but we still get to have some of the most expensive gas prices in Europe.

Just yesterday I paid 1.25 Euros Per Litre, that?s 1.55$ per litre, gasoline, unleaded.

One year ago, I could double the mileage with the same quantity of gas...

[quote=picklemonkey]:lol: it [i]would[/i] look nicer in your 401k, but did you actually adjust your benefits to keep the 36 bucks? or would you have adjusted it to put in an additional 36 bucks if gas prices hadn't gone up?

I guess it doesn't bother me as much because I live about 2 miles from work so I only have to fill my car once or twice a month. then again, maybe I don't give a shit because there's nothing I can do about it. an extra 10 bucks a month isn't going to break a person... it's only 33 cents a day.[/quote]

I did not adjust my 401K. I was using that as an example. That money would be doing me better spending it on anything else except for additional gasoline.

Unfortuantely it's costing a lot of people a lot more than 10 dollars more a month.

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Average here is ?1.10 a litre or ?4.40 a gallon or $5.46 a gallon and its only going to go higher....

[quote=FM][quote]Service station manager Randy Schuette is getting quite a workout changing the gasoline prices on his station's large sign.

"I bet I'm not done, either," he said Wednesday, hoisting price placards with a 20-foot pole at his station in Bismarck, N.D. At one point, he ran out of decimals, so a gallon's cost read $317.[/quote]

wow! :CrackUp:[/quote] ran out of decimals? did he put two in one of the prices or what?

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe they're disposable decimals and are only good for one use.

[quote=Kobe]PS- true fact about me: I have only been inside a Starbucks once, and I didn't buy anything!! I rule :CandyPop:[/quote]

I've never been in one....and never will. I fucking HATE coffee, and am glad I'm not "cool" bacause I don't spend $3 on a little ass cup of it. :roll:

Saw $2.89 gas on the way to work this morning. Never in my life has it been this much. I mean, where does it stop??!! $4?? $5???

Fuck gas. :evil:

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Is that real??!!! If it is we are all fucked. I'll be DAMNED if I'll pay $5 a gallon for freakin' gas. I'll walk everywhere. Everywhere, dammit!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

My father told me that on the news last night they were showing gas stations in Atlanta charging $4.99/gallon regular unleaded with a 10 gallon limit.

[quote=skahound]My father told me that on the news last night they were showing gas stations in Atlanta charging $4.99/gallon regular unleaded with a 10 gallon limit.[/quote]

yeah on fox news the had a station in atlanta that was even higher thatn that...someting like 6.07 a gallon for high test.....NUTZ

[quote=skahound]My father told me that on the news last night they were showing gas stations in Atlanta charging $4.99/gallon regular unleaded with a 10 gallon limit.[/quote]

and i bet people were lined up to buy it.

Bush is going to let oil out of the reserve but it won't do anything other than make his oil buddies richer.

i think the nation needs to rethink its plans for this holiday weekend and just stay at home and not travel. we need to have this whole thing blow over. it seems that the people that drive that the market (who have already been worried about oil production) are too worried about what this disaster will effect and driving prices up even more just incase.

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Ye American guys sure do love to panic! :lol:

[quote=chuckc]yeah on fox news the had a station in atlanta that was even higher thatn that...someting like 6.07 a gallon for high test.....NUTZ[/quote]

Come on chuck....it's Fox News...there's no way it can be true. They probably superimposed the numbers on the screen. I thought you knew???

:wink:

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This is absolute bullshit! I'll take September off of work if gas prices reach $6 bucks in L.A.!

I have so many day accumilated, enought for 1 Month off, I just hope it doesnt come to that and if it does, I just hope my Co. approves of that time off lol!

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[quote=pretence]Ye American guys sure do love to panic! :lol:[/quote] fuck you.

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[quote=picklemonkey][quote=pretence]Ye American guys sure do love to panic! :lol:[/quote] fuck you.[/quote]

Seriously...why does it have to be "ye Americans???" I'm positive that "ye humans" would panic in "ye situation." Ye included, dickhead. :evil:

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[quote=evangelion]Ye included, dickhead. :evil:[/quote] That's "ye dickhead". :lol:

alas, I'll have to pay...great time to have a nice long commute to work, no? :?

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we are all fukd on gas :evil: :Anal:

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well, in all due honesty, if this ends up being only a relatively short-term thing (like 2-3 months), then it'll be fine...eat the extra costs, then it'll come back down around where it was beforehand and all will be well.

If they come back on the reports and say that the pipeline that's totally down, won't even be [i]running[/i] for 3+ months, then get ready...

I'll bet you this: travel forecasts for this weekend might falter just a bit, but should remain relatively the same, as many of these trips were planned well beforehand :?