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Posted by Mark - IN. on August 31, 2005 at 18:42:37 from (205.188.117.6):

In Reply to: Re: Gasoline posted by farmallbee on August 31, 2005 at 17:27:33:

Ahh, but despite what is being said, I can guarantee you that driving habits have changed.

Make my point. I work in Illinois during the work week, drive 2.5 hours home to Indiana to farm on weekends. The last two Friday nights to Indiana, I80 has been a ghost town, except through construction zones, where what traffic there is, is piled up (3 lanes down to 1). And both Sunday nights returning to Illinois, exacly the same. Soooo, perhaps driving habits haven't changed during the work week, folks have to get to and from work to feed the family, make the mortgage, pay other bills. But, if the toll booth revenues are way down during off hours (weekends) when they are normally packed, this to myself would be a good indication that driving habits have changed, in what "SOME" would categorize as "leisure" travel.

Many, all too many are missing a very fundamental point with regards to fuel prices, the very most essential, and beginning. Feeder cattle, for example, that end up on dinner tables eat what? Air? Poultry that ends up on dinner tables, another example, eat what? Air too? Those vegetables that end up on peoples tables grow by osmosis? Loaves of bread and cereals that end up on dinner or breakfast tables grow on trees in the back yard? People aren't thinking. It takes gasoline and diesel to get that into and out of the fields, and those high costs will do what? And that's just the beginning. It's a domino effect, all the way to the table to feed our families.

Cruising the old Z-28 (never had one) down to pick up the chicks (had one or two of them in my lifetime) is one thing, but feeding the families and making livings are getting slaughtered too.

Sir, from what I'm seeing, driving habits most certainly are changing, and being curtailed where they CAN be. I'd be willing to bet that off-hours toll booth revenues will bare me out as a generic indicator, and that in turn will mean increased taxes to finance projects funded by fuel taxes, since those too (tax revenues), will decrease. Everything is relative, or a domino effect, and the royal subjects to DC's elite will bare the brunt of it, always do.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go put on a suit and drive one of my tractors out into the dark corn field, because I still can. And you'll know when I'm out there, because will hear flutes, snare drums and stuff playing outside your windows. LOL.

Mark


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