How come no one is complaining anymore about gas prices? Gas is $2.71 where I live

[Mind_your_head]

Why isn't anyone complaining?

REPETITION.

After something is repeated time and time again, one 'accepts' it as 'normal'.....when just a short time ago 'it wasn't "normal" '.

edit: typo

[Horse with no Name]

1. It's defeat and acceptance

and hoping it doesn't reach $4 a gallon.

[roguevalley]

33. regular is $3.54 here and about eight dollars a gallon in some

places in the bush. Someone even told me it was $15 a gallon in Barrow.

[Broken_Hero]

2. not sure, gas just went down a few cents here (SW MO)

its 2.39 here, was 2.45 the other day.

[vadawg]

3. i guess people are getting used to it, ive accepted its costing me $20 or so to go to work daily

so im pretty much set at that now...

[Mind_your_head]

5. So why are you so complacent?

$20/week x 4 weeks/month = $80.

Wouldn't you rather take your SO out for a nice dinner or do something ELSE with that $80/month?

$80/month x 12 months = $960/year!

What could you do with an extra (almost) $1,000/year?

[vadawg]

6. lol you misread its $20 a day not weekly, its the price i pay to live were i live

and to work were i work. It was all factored in the decision making process...

[Mind_your_head]

10. So, you're paying an extra $20/DAY then.....$100/week..

$400/month. $4,800/YEAR for gas than you were before. You're a *chump*

So 'glad' for you that you can afford it! Many people can't (and, well, "may it all come back to you")

[vadawg]

13. nope you are missing the math, i live were i live as i save a lot of money on housing costs

i work were i work due to the fact that i make a lot more money working there than i would where i live, its real simple. I make more working were i work, it costs me a lot less to live were i live, the price i pay for my commute is a lot less than the savings..

[Mind_your_head]

16. wha?

You write like you went/go to one of those GOP "I got mine, now screw you PROLE" schools"! :rofl:

to save your post for 'posterity', you said:

"i work were i work due to the fact that i make a lot more money working there than i would where i live, its real simple. I make more working were i work, it costs me a lot less to live were i live, the price i pay for my commute is a lot less than the savings.."

:wtf: DUDE/DUDETTE?

[vadawg]

18. rofl it made sense through the haze of being in hour 11 of a night shift

plus my writing style is a wierd mix that sometimes goes of the range... :) but you get the gist of what im saying i hope..

the money i save by living a few counties away and not paying the higher prices in the county i work in, allied with the fact that the county i work in pays more than the county i live in. eek my brain is hurting trying to write this... thanks god this is shift three and im off for a few days...

[Angry Dragon]

4. Most people have been paying more attention to health care right now

[Mind_your_head]

7. I'm glad that people are paying more attention.....

....but as has been mentioned before, people can pay attention to more than one thing! Especially things that are so very, very important to their own PERSONAL well-being! Financial well-being and otherwise.

[Angry Dragon]

12. I did notice that gas was going up

the last I heard it was based more on the speculators than supply. The reserves I heard were pretty full. Just Wall Street again.

[global1]

8. Haven't You Heard - The Economy Is In Recovery - Things Are Getting Better......

so it's time for the oil companies to take advantage of that and get further into our back pockets.

It's the wheel of life. The better you do the more they take.

[LostInAnomie]

9. I've been saying for awhile now...

... that the $4+ we were paying a couple years ago was for nothing more than to get us used to the idea that $2.50 a gallon is cheap.

[Mind_your_head]

11. You were "spot on"

:thumbsup:

[vadawg]

14. the $4 a gallon was a pain, but i did notice my commute was a lot quicker

and outside of rush hour the traffic was pretty non existant, so probuably some people would think that a good thing..

[FatDave]

22. Yup.

They found the maximum we were willing to pay without too much bitching. Turns out it's right around $2.50. There's still a little bitching, but it doesn't add up to much in the cost vs. benefit analysis.

[Sherman A1]

24. Precisely

I recall when the "threat" was Gas will be $1.00 per gallon!!!! When it "only" went to 75 cents, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

I bought a much more fuel efficient car for my commute and the savings I realize in the cost of refueling helps with the payment each month. So I drive a new car and the payment is about $125.00 per month when I factor in the gasoline savings. Still have my 98 Ranger (now in semi retirement) for short trips around the neighborhood, to the recycle center and for all those things a truck does well.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. It's $3.27 here

Don't feel bad.

[Mind_your_head]

17. I'm driving to Alaska to fill up!

*d*mn* 50 cents cheaper/gallon.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. THREE .27

As in 56 cents more here. I don't think you want to drive up here for our gas.

[wroberts189]

20. 10 years ago I was paying $1.24 a gallon.

sigh... energy drives up the cost of everything.


Yet I read articles telling me inflation is so low it is now deflation so we are dropping the minimum wage.


http://www.google.com/search?q=mininum+wgae+decrease&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


knr

[wroberts189]

21. "Why isn't anyone complaining? "

It is a good question. I am perplexed.

Americans seem to just accept whatever.

Telco immunity for gross dragnet criminal wiretapping ..no problem... 700B+ Bailouts and flue shots for Wall street... no problem. Torture techniques that makes the nazis look lame... no problem.

Lied into a war.. no problem.


Well ..at least we are complaining. Sort of.

[earth mom]

23. I stopped bitching about it for the moment but once it goes back up over $3 or $4

I will be speaking my mind. :evilgrin:

Also, I've pretty much stopped driving around like I used to all the time.

I'm home most days of the week and I don't mind that much because it helps the planet and our budget too, but I admit I do miss hitting the thrift stores and garage sales like I used to do all the time. :(

[Greyhound]

25. Attention span of a Tsetse fly? n/t

[chelsea0011]

26. anything under $3.00 is the new norm, I guess

[ProdigalJunkMail]

27. please understand that the cost of gasoline

and MANY commodities is tied directly to the weakness in the dollar. the dollar has plummeted against other currencies in the last few months and what looks like a high price for gasoline is really just a lot of DOLLARS for gasoline...but the dollar doesn't buy what it used to...

Our currency is headed for a tailspin...it will get worse before it gets better. you cannot print trillions of dollars out of thin air and not expect it to dilute your currency and thus your purchasing power.

sP

[Crabby Appleton]

28. Correct about weak dollar

gas $2.49 here

[Yupster]

35. What I've been waiting to say too

If our government policy is a weak dollar, then we're going to pay more of our weak dollars to buy stuff.

Since the US treasury is currently borrowing $ 150 billion a month, I don't expect gas to get cheaper soon.

[SmileyRose]

29. $2.50ish here. Seems on the high side of reasonable to me.

I know they are gouging me a little bit and I'm continuing to do everything I can to use less and less of it. If they jack me to $3 plus again (and it was closer to $4 here for some time) then I grab the pitchforks again.

[taterguy]

30. Everyone switched to bicycles when gas hit $4.00 a gallon

Didn't you get the memo?

:shrug:

[The2ndWheel]

31. Why should gas under $1 be considered "normal"?

What was normal about that? Just because that's what it was, day after day, every time you went to the gas station, time and time again?

[Javaman]

32. Because we have been lulled into stupidity with the statement...

"at least it isn't as high as last year".

See how it works? pain is relative.

It will eventually goto $3.50 and people will say, "at least it's not as high as 2008".

When we do surpass the record price of oil and gas at the pump, then and only then will people be amazed.

Of course by that point, we will be once again be paying record prices for goods, services and food, but hey, until then, "at least it's not as high as 2008".

[aikoaiko]

34. anything below $3 seems like free gas.

[Art_from_Ark]

36. Well, $3 seems cheap to me

since I'm paying somewhere around $4.70 for it now

[garybeck]

37. Gas should cost MORE not LESS

when gas prices go up I am glad because people drive and pollute less

in Europe gas costs 2.3 times more than we pay. people drive less and more taxes are raised. i'm not a big fan of taxes but this is one I can live with.