JUST STOP WHINING, Neal Boortz.
there.. fixed it.
I just LOVE Neal!
Wow..does he put this all into perspective with humor!
...Waiting for the FReepers that drive their Ford F350 one hundred miles each way to work every morning to jump in and complain....
Anyone notice candy bar prices are flirting with $1.
And yet, here in Minnesota, the Democratic Legislature wants to raise the gas tax by 5 to 7.5 cents per gallon despite a budget surplus. Go figure.
Note to self, Neal Bortz is a dumb ass.
Another feel good article about rising oil prices.Well I’m hearing we could be seeing 4 bucks a gallon before too long.I wonder how high the price will go before Boortz and others stop feeling so great about it ???
If Americans want to lower gas prices at the pump all they need to do is drive the speed limit on our nation’s freeways.
Yes, but Boortz is always under the impression that if the payroll tax disappeared tomorrow, your employer would pay you 14%(actually 15.25%)more. Just as if income tax disappeared tomorrow, vendors would reduce their prices by that amount.
In Boortz’ world, but not on this blue marble.
Also, I am paying outrageously for home heating.
I drive a fuel efficient car but I drive 60 miles a day back and forth to work. Every little bit extra that costs me is noticeable.
A one minute examination of my checkbook records on Quicken show that even if gas doubled it wouldn’t amount to much in my budget.
Considering America’s technological and economic capabilities, gas prices are way too high. We have every right to complain.
This makes sense if we were only upset about the prices this year compared to last year. They were out of control last year also. Lets really compare it to where gas prices should be which is in the low $2.00 range.
New math based on his milage.
Old price $2.09 (3-4 years ago)
Current price $3.14 (here in Ohio)
Difference $1.05
Florida trip now will be 70 miles or about $74 dollars. It is high but not that much since it is a vacation. Pay it.
The problem is the monthly cost this adds getting to/from work. He stated 32 miles a day which turn into about $12 bucks a week or $45 dollars a month. In my case it is about $70 bucks a month more. I travel further.
It hurt last summer and it’s going to hurt worse this year. I like Boortz but I don’t want to be lectured by a millionaire,money it’s not that big of a deal when ya have big . He needs to wake up and step outside to where the real world lives and realize this is budget busting in many cases.
Every week we are giving $10-$30 dollars more a month to the countries that want to destroy us. Can we start drilling in Alaska already? Drop a few refineries right outside the tap also !!
I’m glad my car doesn’t run on milk ($3.58 per gal) or orange juice! ($2.72 half-gal)
He makes a good point, and while I don’t like the price of gas, I can’t see a reason to complain too much, except to congress because of the tax on fuel.
What kills me are those moaning about the price of gas while sipping on bottled water and cafe mochas. When gas gets to the same price a gallon as those items, then let them complain...
What he is stating, is, of course, true.
But to the average American, the monumental rise in gasoline prices is heartbreaking, while he/she are trying to raise a family and survive in an increasingly complicated world.
NOW is the perfect time for the Administration to push for more refinery capacity, clean coal use, nuclear energy, drilling on the Alaskan North Slope, and alternate energy.
It is also an opportunity to re-emphasize the significance behind assuring governments favorable to US exist in oil producing areas.
BUT, as usual, Mr. Bush is asleep at the wheel and the fall-out will blow-back in Republican faces in 2008 instead of in Democrat faces where it belongs.
This administration is perhaps the most inept in history in taking advantage of situations and using them to its own best advantage.
At this point, I simply don’t believe Bush cares anymore.
A little more than a year ago ... Jan/Feb or thereabouts ... I seem to remember $2.10 gallons threatening to drop below $2.
That means that in human thinking (we tend to round things up and down), a year ago the cost of gas was a buck cheaper than it is now.
So those big tank vehicles now cost $20 plus more at the point of sale ... the place you go to on a Friday, calculating how much you have left out of your check to take your wife/family/girlfriend out.
My little Cavalier costs about $11 more to fill up now, kinda' like me just giving a sawbuck away.
Between work travel, church, school activities (the kids), shopping and the occasional trip to the local convenient store because of ... whatever .... I fill up twice a week, so my weekly outlay is no longer about $40, but closer to $60.
In case anyone hasn't been watching ... as single parent I do, ... even at WallyWorld the cost of groceries is more this year than last ... cheaper by a few cents only than in other stores, but more than a year ago.
So my gas bill is up and my grocery bill is up.
Life requires more than gasoline and eating ... (there are, I'm sure, some here that may say I'm full of $h!t) and T.P is more expensive, too.
I could go on, but why bother ... my pay stays static until an industry hits enough of a crisis that pay increases just enough to break even with the then current level of "just making it", and the cycle starts all over again.
I don't have an answer, but I know what I see.
Just pray there are no reports of a hurricane off the coast of Florida or the Gulf coast that may hit in a week to ten days .... plywood will go up this afternoon by about 3 bucks a sheet.