Starbucks and water and gas! Oh my!

Are skies really blue somewhere over the rainbow? In the case of gas prices, I don't think so. I hope so. I can dare to dream.

I NEED gas so I pay the continued increase in gas price without complaints because there’s no other alternative for me at the moment. I NEED water but I can choose to pay a buck for 24 ounces of water or find a water fountain and drink it for free. I NEED coffee and it has to be Starbucks Coffee or I’ll just be pissed off all day.

I drive a minimum of 38 miles a day to and from work. My car gets a combined 22 mpg so it costs about $5.37 a day to drive to and from work. At five days a week that’s $26.85 a week. In a month’s time I pay approximately a minimum of $107.44 for gas. That’s an 11% increase in my gas expense from a year ago. But we're not in Kansas anymore.

The Katrina disaster is also expected to effect gas prices as well. So expect gas prices to rise in the near future.

I’m not going to complain that I paid $3.11 for a gallon of gas. I need it, I’ll pay it. I hear people complain about gas prices all the while holding a 24 ounce bottle of water that they paid a dollar for at a 7-11. Gas is a scarce resource. Water is everywhere. You can drink water for free yet people throw money at water companies by paying more than $5.00 a gallon for it without complaining.

I was at Vons the other morning and walked by the Starbucks counter and heard a lady complain about gas prices to another person in line. And she was buying a cup of coffee for $1.85! She can make Starbucks coffee at home with a $9.95 bag of whole bean coffee. That’s like paying approximately 40 cents for a each cup of coffee. And she was really REALLY **** about gas prices. YO, DOROTHY! You're paying an extra 300% for a cup coffee in order to feed your addiction! Stop the complaining!

I’m not going to complain about gas prices. I’m just going to watch my mileage a little bit more while I enjoy my 40 cent cup of STARBUCKS COFFEE every day to the very last drop. And maybe, somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And if I dare to dream of gas prices coming down, maybe my dreams will come true.

In Denmark 1 LITER of gas cost $1,7 !

But I am not complaining, I don't own a car. I don't even have a drivers license.

I agree with you wholeheartedly Hungry.

There's your problem.

Try public transportation. Try carpools. Try a bicycle.

---Bob Gross---

If those alternatives, or any others are acceptable. With me, I have to drop my 4 year old son off at daycare on the way to work. He'd fall off of my bike.

Dan

Danny Boy wrote:
If those alternatives, or any others are acceptable. With me, I have to drop my 4 year old son off at daycare on the way to work. He'd fall off of my bike.

Dan

Absolutely. If I didn't have two kids to drop off and pick up on a daily basis I'd take the train or bus. But when you're fighting time spent on the road with morning daycare and evening day care, the overtime costs of those things outweigh the cost of gas to get their before I get charged an additional $10.00 every hour.

My dear departed father-in-law was a real honest to gosh Rocket Scientist. A chemist, he developed the material for the Titan II re-entry vehicle nose cone. He also worked for Nuclear Weapons Lab and Aerospace, a brilliant man. It was his opinion that oil was too valuable to burn in cars and houses. Oil is the basis for most plastics and other man made materials. I agree with him wholeheartedly that oil sould be put to better use such as making plastic beer cups

Within two weeks gas will be $4.00 a gallon, costing me over $150 to fill up my pickup. $150!!!!!

What do you think, time to trade the dually in on a Civic Hybrid?

pcasciola wrote:
What do you think, time to trade the dually in on a Civic Hybrid?

Will it run on BP-511A's

I really wish Americans would put more faith/interest into mass transit. I'd like to be able to take a train to work, I just can't seem to find a job downtown and that's the only place the train goes.

Skip Souza wrote:
Will it run on BP-511A's

If it did, they would need about 500 slots.

I wish US cities would adopt and invest in it also. But it would be a engineering nightmare or almost impossible in most US cities due to the lack of urban planning in the in the housing boom after WW2.

Even if it was structurelly possibly, the costs for it would be mind boggling.

One word:

SOLAR

There is a huge amount of energy falling on every square foot of the Earth's surface every day. Well, maybe not in Great Britain...

I've got a big solar panel up on the equator side of my house, and my battery bank stays charged up. An electric car can be plugged in for some miles of range. A computer can be plugged in for some hours of Internet connection. A camera's battery charger can run for a long time.

Solar. It's renewable. Clean.

I will admit that it isn't cheap to start it off, but it will pay for itself over time. The closer you are to the equator, the faster it will pay for itself.

---Bob Gross---

I wish more companies would just adopt a telecommuting policy. Many jobs can be done from home with a computer and high speed Internet.

Telecommuting is a good idea for some companies, and for some job functions within those companies. Alas, there are too many jobs that require somebody to be sitting there in the chair.

Also, some companies have found that only by being able to get everybody together around the same meeting table can they get the critical mass to get anything decided.

Suppose you had an appointment with your physician, and the nurse parks you on the examination table and tells you to speak toward the video camera. Then the staticy voice on the other end of the line asks, "Now, where does it hurt?"

---Bob Gross---