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You guys, this is the first time in my life I can remember actually planning out my trips and even passing up some things due to the cost of gas. And what's really bad is that my car's gas gauge is broken. Oh, and it's a SUV on top of that. Gas is killing me! I keep hearing that investors are driving the cost up. Is that the real reason our gas prices are sky rocketing? Quick. Someone give me a quick Economics lesson...It seems like this trend has got to correct itself somehow, right?

My hubby read in the news that barrels are going up to $200 each and by October/November gas could be as high as 8-10$ a gallon

OMG!!!!

WIth the launch of our new business this fall we are putting a down payment on one of those gasless (or almost gasless) cars.

HORRIBLE! But we were bound to hit this road one year or another. I have found more and more businesses wanting to go back to the old barter system. A lot in Gainesville. We often trade our services/products for others in Gainesville..even restaurant gift certs sometimes... Another reason I want to rely on Farmers Markets (local farmers) and my own garden.

Give it another few years of festering and everything will skyrocket! Luckily by then I wont need diapers, will probably switch to cloth napkins instead of papertowels/wipes, but what to do about toilet paper... hmm...

LOL we all need to partake somehow! I guess my only current ideas are to eliminate as many items as I can that are trucked to FL for our consumption and a gasless car.

Everyone is feeling the pain. Some stores are unable to charge enough. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355243,00.html

I feel your pain. I have an SUV as well and it takes almost $90 to fill up right now. I'm not sure what to do but something has to give.

You have totally pegged why I never go anywhere right now, I really can't afford the gas on the honkin' minivan. I also read up at the hypermiler website to learn gas saving driving tips.

Even with not going much of anywhere, in the last week and a half I've gone 70 miles.

I go home and to work and to get the kids from school. Hitchcocks here in Hawthorne is more expensive, but the savings of getting groceries in Gainesville is ate up in gas costs.
I haven't been to gainesville in 3 weeks. (I work in Cross Creek, 14 minutes from my house and the kids' school)
When we are invited to a birthday party, I make something simply because I am trying to save money anywhere I can. I made a backpack out of demin jeans for a 4 yr's birthday. Her mom loved it, however the birthday girl being 4, was more interested in her new toys.
I am learning to reuse and recycle everything we have as much as I can.
I was reading somewhere on yahoo that the price of food is expected to stay high for about another 2 years, which is about how long it will take to gain enough supply to even out the demand, allowing prices to either lower, stabilize or both.

I'm really starting to feel overwhelmed with gas prices. I'm so grateful I don't have to drive often. I'm really having to shop around price wise, before I even leave the house to shop. I try to combine as many errands together as possible. I completely understand the squeeze everyone is feeling at the gas pumps. Our gas budget is through the roof.

unfortunately, right now we are living in a society where those who are raising the cost of Gas (Bush!!) is to make as much money as they can during this time of the campaign...while Bush is in the white house.

The war in Iraq was not about us, but about the oil and making money, we all know this. the war should had been about 9/11. Iraq didn't have anything to do with it. Bush managed to distract this whole thing to make his money....and he is using OUR money to get to that. Its just common sense and it is obvious.

the more money you make (the upper /rich class), the more greedy you get and who cares about everybody else.

Its just plain said that so many have to make so many sacrifices for the sake of the rich getting richer.

dee, i'm really sorry you feel that way. other than obstructing us from drilling for oil on our own land and taxing the heck out of us, the government (bush) has nothing to do with the retail price of gas. as a nation, we use too much and we are dependent on other countries to provide our energy.

i do agree that gas companies are making a pile of money but that is what companies are supposed to do, be profitable. if the government steps in begins price controls, what will stop them from doing it to every business in our country, thus halting the free market society we all benefit from in one way or another.

the best thing for us to do is just what many have mentioned, reduce our need for gas. plan our trips better, carpool, buy smaller vehicles. i've done all of that. but also, we need to be in direct communciation with our elected officials. we need to tell them that we are over being dependent on foreign oil. if we control the supply, prices will fall.

Now is the time for neighbors, bartering and becoming more aware.

Recycle, reuse, reduce waste. Grow, farmers, carpool.

But I do agree that there is NO WAY, I repeat NO WAY that our government didn't see this one coming. I realize there are some who have been trying to develop other forms of fuel but all of that takes money. I realize the presidents and other officials have their own agendas and some just do all they can with the position they walk into. HOWEVER... there is ALWAYS room for doing the right thing all of the time. personally I say screw politics.. living in the now, there is little faith I can put in the government and TONS of faith to put in my fellow citizens who run the local businesses and live in the local homes. We have local business and those people take care of us while we take care of them. I feel there is not a whole lot more the government can do in this crisis for me, for us.

It will take years for even the right person in official positions to get things going in the right direction (however I realize there are a LOT of things that they are otherwise working on..again, everyone has their own agenda...even me).

We are in for it! A huge economic change! With other countries holding us by the balls there isn't a whole lot we can do about that... time for things to get worse before they get better...

Start to plan ahead (as a citizen)

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Originally posted by softballmom:
other than obstructing us from drilling for oil on our own land and taxing the heck out of us, the government (bush) has nothing to do with the retail price of gas. as a nation, we use too much and we are dependent on other countries to provide our energy.

the best thing for us to do is just what many have mentioned, reduce our need for gas. plan our trips better, carpool, buy smaller vehicles.

I agree with you on this....isn't there some hope in all of us, Americans that is, pulling together and boycotting all but one or two gas stations?? It would have to be planned just about from city to city. There would need to be an old fashioned town meeting and we would need to discuss which one or two companies to purchase gas from. Say we all chose BP and only purchased gas from BP?? Wouldn't that force other companies to come down even if it was only pennies at a time?? Then once a company lowered prices we could all switch to that one and so on and so on. It needs to be that , or even BETTER boycot ALL stations that don't purchase oil from America. There have been lists of which companies use american oil and which ones import. I don't know but America is falling fast. If we don't do something and do it quickly we will become a nation defeated. I love this country for what it was founded on and I only wish our leaders ....that means congress and the senate and all the other people sitting on capitol hill making money hand over fist....would open their eyes and REALLY begin to care about this country. God needs to come first. Thats what this nation was all about and that is why it became the upstanding first rate nation it was.

i love this new campaign: DRILL NOW

check it out. there is a you tube video explaining the effort.

http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions...5b-aa7b-346a1e096659