Although I don't want to sound like that Joy lady on the view who complained that she can't go to Italy soon because of the current war.......the timing of these gas prices stinks!

I am retiring in 3.5 months and I have been planning on taking lots of trips.  Moab, Monument Valley, Colorado, Glacier National Park, etc.  The gas prices go up just as I am about to be out of work!

Ya'll remember VP Harris on the campaign trail wanted to do away with gas powered cars.    

So , I knew there would be an excuse for increased gas prices show up ... Her and her kind must think this war is a "God-Sent".  

If I ever buy another car it will be a Hybrid that get 50mpg (or more).

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A Honda NC700X  looks better , and  better all the time ?  

Wow   That    JOG

I guess I'm just so "Cheep" that I  want to get the "Most for my Gas Dollar" ,!

But ,  

Just 14 months ago we had so much oil we were selling some of it.  

We do have a SUV (Jeep Grand Cherokee" , but it averages 26 mpg.  when we take it for a day drive , and about 23 local.   So it ain't really bad.  

The problem is that the oil is in Texas, Arkansas and Alaska - and the "Dipsticks" are in Washington DC!

Is diesel dearer than petrol in the US?

regular $4.42 few blocks away from where I live in NYC

I got Three gallons of diesel yesterday for fifteen bucks.
When I was a kid, gas cost me about 35 cents, six bucks was pretty much a fill up.
I was making a buck sixty. So, after tax,I could get about three and a half gallons per labor hour.
I was just sixteen, and was buying my own clothes, eating maybe one meal a week at home, putting at least two tanks through that283 ,buying booze, adding speakers and the all important eight track, and I always had money in my pocket.
But I did work 48 hours three weeks a month and took Sunday off one week, just making forty .  Between that and school, I don't know when I slept.
Idk if they still do it, but I was able to check out of school just shortly after lunch.

So, how much Time does it cost to buy a gallon now?
Every cent spent eats at the labor hours that make up a check.


If gas is five, and you have no dependents, IDK what you would have to make to wind up with five bucks after tax. But to be able to buy three gallons per labor hour, you fer dang sure gonna need that fifteen bucks an hour Plus.
And I was taking it to a gas station for oil changes. Didn't have tools or a place to do it myself. Don't remember what it cost me, but I'm pretty sure it was Not the seventy dollars I just paid a couple of weeks ago for the wife's car.