Off topic but HOLY COW

[Akcowboy]

The price of fuel just jumped up and I'm paying for diesal on my truck at 5 bucks a gallon now, just when is this going to stop as it has been going up and up that I'm at the point that we can't afford to drive far at all, just the basic traveled at best and as for heating we are going back to wood for heat

  How the heck are you ppl dealing with this as I may just have to sell off my horses just to live if I can even sell them now.

  Cowboy

[monotreme]

I agree...this is ridiculous!!!!   I know that China is bidding very high prices for wheat, oil, rice etc and they seem to have no ceiling on what they want to pay.  I saw that if the U.S. opens a natural gas reserve in the Midwest, the other countries have already bid very high prices for it so it won't even stay in this country!!!!

I don't like the billions of dollar profits each quarter that the oil companies are getting, so where does it stop???   I have noticed alot less trucks on the road here on our highways.

We are doing alot less driving too.
Elaine

[Heather3418]

I just read on the news that Americans have actually driven over 1 billion miles LESS since this gas crisis started.  That is alot of fuel that was not purchased.  Diesel has gone through the roof.  It's costing on average $1,300 for a trucker to fill up his rig, getting on the average of 5 miles to the gallon.  No wonder the prices are sky-rocketing in the grocery stores.

It's hard to know who to blame for this gas crisis and never-ending rising fuel prices.

Heather

[ohwild]

You are lucky over there, in UK we are paying over £1 a litre, cant go anywhere really, about $1.60 a litre i think. I need a horse and  cart :)
CJ

[LLWB]

Heh, you might just need them to ride to Anchorage!!! Something's gotta give pretty soon, wages sure as he** aren't going up!  I work for a company as a courier, and the total combined of all our couriers is over a million miles a year. I don't know how anybody can stay in business with that kind of increase! Good luck on your tests.

Maggie