Re: GAS PRICES

Posted by Jason Simmerman on August 12, 2005 at 22:39:01 from (141.157.151.58):

In Reply to: Re: GAS PRICES posted by R-cubed on August 12, 2005 at 20:03:49:

Well, I'll elaborate on that some. We as a country are begining to be overcrowded by self centered people. It's not an immediate problem, but slowly and surely it's happening. On that same account many people still want a "place of their own". Because of this property close to the cities are now so expensive that unless you are making a 6 digit sallary you can't afford it. I live near Washington DC and I have a 60 mile commute everyday. I bought a house with 3/4 of an acre on it and a 2100 square foot house which is dated inside but liveable, (yes I wanted my little piece of the pie too, but this is what I could afford so I had to move further out). What do you think I paid for this place a year and a half ago? $240,000 and that was cheap in this area. My place has two baths 4 bedrooms.
A place just down the street from me which doesn't have a garage is only 3 bedrooms, 1 bath and is dated about the same inside as mine with only 1/2 an acre. What do you think that sold for? Almost $370,000!!!
My place is probiably worth close to $400,000 right now. Is my place worth that? Not to me if I was the buyer now. But we all forget that something is worth what people are willing to pay for it. A good example is on this board. I have heard numerous times about people complaining about somebody selling a tractor and is insulted by what somebody offers them for it. On that same note this same person has the same tractor for sale 2 months later. Why??? Person isn't approachable, maybe, but most likely they are asking way too much for it.
I can ask a million dollars for a rock I am selling, but that doesn't mean I am going to get it. In that case I have to lower my price in order to sell it. But if subject A see's the rock and says hey I want that rock and subject B sees the rock and says the same thing then the next thing I would do with the next rock I'm selling is ask 1.2 million because they obviously wanted my rocks. And I will keep doing that because I can, and any businessman will do this. The oil companies are no different than this and we will continue to pay higher and higher the more and more we allow them to charge higher. Maybe the cost is justified maybe it isn't, I'm not informed enough to make an intelligent statement about that. What I do know is people need to rethink their day to day decisions, to include businesses. You have to ask yourself do I need that item to be shipped overnight? Because that costs alot of fuel to send all those aircraft up for shipping. Why do I need to make a zillion trips to and from different stores to save pennies when the gas you consume not only affects you but also contributes to the usage pool that we all are a part of? This is my other gripe.
Yeah gas might be 3 cents a gallon cheaper at the Sheetz downtown then it is at Joe's garage/service station, but I know I feel alittle pride in myself when I fill there knowing I'm helping another hardworking American support his family, whereas you are throwing money into large pool where employees have no benefits, work holidays, and have a pretty steady turnover ratio, and a good portion of that money is going to the corporation. Put it in a context like that and think about it some. We are our worst enemy. We worry about money to the point where it consumes us and we take the course which benefits us in the short course without forward thinking about the rest of the people out there. I miss the days of when you could leave your house unlocked and know everything would be there when you got back. I miss leaving the keys in the truck knowing it will be in the driveway when you wakeup. I miss having the right and moral responsibility to use deadly force to defend your family from harm from others without question, (now you hear alot from the bleeding hearts out there supporting the crooks).
I have a few thoughts about the population issues.

1. Our medical technology is one of our crowning acceivements, it is also our downfalls
example the ability to treat cancer the way they do now. 30 years ago cancer was fatal, now not so much so. On that same note though, this is also weakening our gene pool. Example If you drink about 6 beers and decide to go outside and start trimming a tree with a chainsaw, you are fully entitled to be the benefactor of your stupidity. If you cut your arm off you deserve to lose it, not have it reattached. I don't mean to be offense or anything, but it serves as a walking lesson to everybody else out there. IE a public hanging once in awhile is not a bad thing.
We as a society are lossing our common sense and it's scarey sometimes.

Follow Ups:

• Re: GAS PRICES P Backus 06:00:44 08/13/05 (2)
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