judasmachine
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Originally posted by: meltdown75
You forgot to add how you walked to school in a blizzard, uphill on a 60-degree incline, on broken glass, through minefeilds, carrying your younger brother & sister on your back.
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i want gas to be $10 a gallon
not joking one bit
Originally posted by: Skoorb
High gas prices hurt those who do a lot of miles, but a disproportionate amount of populations in western europe are able to walk or bike or take public transport.Originally posted by: freegeeks
Yeah, but for many of us there are limits to compromise. When I used to walk to work it didn't affect me, besides any consumer prices, what gas cost. It could be $50/gallon and I didn't care. Europeans say their $5/gallon is high, so stop complaining, but many have options that many americans don't have, like walking to work or cycling around, or taking public transit. If a guy in London pays $5/gallon but goes through 300/year, whereas I'm paying $2.50 but cranking through 1700 (which I do), it hurts me a lot more!
the average commute in Europe and the USA is more or less the same
USA commute
Euro commuteI mean golly, I'd be shocked if even one out of 500 people in Birmingham, AL cycle to workwith 28% of people in Cambridge cycling to work
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Well, as so often is the case, the whining can be deferred to stupidity. People are dumb, and they complain whenever they can about anything they can.
Actually I complain a lot, but I like these raised gas prices, because they just may educate the public a little bit on what they have, what is finite, and how to manage money. Not much of a hope of that, of course, but one can dream.Plus only crack heads actually buy much bottle water, especially at retail prices. I can buy a gallon of it at walmart for $.55 or something. Find me gas at that priceI'm starting to hate this gas price vs bottled water comparison.
You have a choice to buy or not buy bottled water.
because then it will actually be expensive and all the whining will be warranted. expensive to the point where some people could not afford to drive - as opposed to expensive enough to whine about it, but not actually change habits. i could care less what kind of car people drive, i am just sick of hearing all this bs whining.Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i want gas to be $10 a gallon
not joking one bit
Originally posted by: CVSiN
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Well, as so often is the case, the whining can be deferred to stupidity. People are dumb, and they complain whenever they can about anything they can.
Actually I complain a lot, but I like these raised gas prices, because they just may educate the public a little bit on what they have, what is finite, and how to manage money. Not much of a hope of that, of course, but one can dream.Plus only crack heads actually buy much bottle water, especially at retail prices. I can buy a gallon of it at walmart for $.55 or something. Find me gas at that priceI'm starting to hate this gas price vs bottled water comparison.
You have a choice to buy or not buy bottled water.
tap water is free and tastes fine where Im from..
bottled water is for Yuppie Pansies...
Until you have served on an Aircraft Carrier and the water all tastes like Jetfuel (not joking) yet you drink 10 gallons of this crap a day caue your in the middle of the indian Ocean and it's 120 on the flight deck...
you can BITE ME
Bottled water pffft
panseys...
now gimme my freaking gas...
gas has gone up 2 bucks in 4 years, and the economy is doing fine.Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i want gas to be $10 a gallon
not joking one bit
Me too.
This entire Having a Job thing is really crimping my style.
I want to be in a totally colapsed econmoy so that I don't have to work.
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
because then it will actually be expensive and all the whining will be warranted. expensive to the point where some people could not afford to drive - as opposed to expensive enough to whine about it, but not actually change habits. i could care less what kind of car people drive, i am just sick of hearing all this bs whining.Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i want gas to be $10 a gallon
not joking one bit
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
because then it will actually be expensive and all the whining will be warranted. expensive to the point where some people could not afford to drive - as opposed to expensive enough to whine about it, but not actually change habits. i could care less what kind of car people drive, i am just sick of hearing all this bs whining.Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i want gas to be $10 a gallon
not joking one bit
Cool!
I want you to have to work and provide for a family, earn 30k a year, and have a 60 mile per day commute, so I can hear ya baby!
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a friend in Amsterdam and gas there is $5/gal. most people don't own cars for that reason. they use bikes to get around. he scoffs at our complaints about gas prices.
this guy doesn't even have his license :shocked:Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a friend in Amsterdam and gas there is $5/gal. most people don't own cars for that reason. they use bikes to get around. he scoffs at our complaints about gas prices.
You should scoff back that they are forced to ride bikes.
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a friend in Amsterdam and gas there is $5/gal. most people don't own cars for that reason. they use bikes to get around. he scoffs at our complaints about gas prices.
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
no whining allowed unless you actually do something to reduce oil consumption.