The Big 3 need to be proactive and look to other markets like, oh I dunno, teleportation devices.

It is true. It seems like we could care less about doing something for the benefits of the long-term and just look for quick fixes.

 

 

 

For me for the NYC Subway I'd be more afraid about getting mugged (depends what area of the city you are in) or there being like a terrorist attack or something.

 

I've always enjoyed walking more in NYC, although to be fair I've never left Manhattan when I've gone there.

I miss the days where it took less than £60 to fill a skoda fabia up :(

I miss the days where it took less than £60 to fill a skoda fabia up :(

 

Isn't that what a Skoda Fabia costs?:P

Isn't that what a Skoda Fabia costs?:P

 

*gets whip*

 

You never answered my PM :inquisitive:

I've always enjoyed walking more in NYC, although to be fair I've never left Manhattan when I've gone there.

 

that is true as do I. But sometimes you need to take public transportation to get downtown if you're in midtown or uptown. You could walk, but sometimes that could take at least an hour, depending where it is

that is true as do I. But sometimes you need to take public transportation to get downtown if you're in midtown or uptown. You could walk, but sometimes that could take at least an hour, depending where it is

 

That's true, I've only ever gone there as a tourist/shopper so I've never really been in a hurry when I have been.

Random comment yet still somewhat related to the thread:

 

I just hit 100,000 miles (over 160,000 km) on my car a couple of weeks ago. Considering I've had that thing less than 6 years, that's quite a bit of mileage. Yay gas.

If you are jealous of our cheap gas, why don't you come live in America?

 

Why do you complain about expensive food, when food is far more expensive in sub-Saharan African countries?

If you are jealous of our cheap gas, why don't you come live in America?

 

Why do you complain about expensive food, when food is far more expensive in sub-Saharan African countries?

 

I think you should re-read the article in which it explains exactly why it means so much to Americans, and then re-read some comments and understand the jokey nature of them.

 

Chill out.

Chill out? You yourself speculated it would cause a debate. I'm hardly even debating, just making a point.

 

The reason the price of commodities has been rising is because of central banks easing monetary policy. But that's too complex for most people to wrap their brains around (printing money = higher prices) so we instead have a villain, speculators.

just saw this newsarticle and figured I'd bump the thread with it

 

 

Prices at gas pump painful for 4 in 10 Americans

JENNIFER C. KERR and JENNIFER AGIESTA, Associated Press – 37 mins ago

 

WASHINGTON – As $4 a gallon gasoline becomes commonplace, drivers have made tough choices: scaling back vacations, driving less or ditching the car altogether. And a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows the impact of sustained high prices is spreading among seniors and higher-income Americans.

 

According to the poll, the share of all Americans who say increases in the price of gasoline will cause serious financial hardship for them or their families in the next six months now tops 4 in 10.

 

Overall, 71 percent said rising prices will cause some hardship for them and their families, including 41 percent who called it a "serious" hardship. Just 29 percent said rising prices are not causing a negative impact on their finances.

 

While those with household incomes under $50,000 were already feeling strained in March, the new poll shows financial pain is increasingly spreading to those with higher incomes. Among those with annual household incomes over $50,000, 63 percent now say rising prices are causing them financial hardship, up from 55 percent in March.

 

For older Americans, it's worse.

 

The share of seniors expressing financial hardship over gas prices hit 76 percent; it was 68 percent in March.

 

Nettie Cash, 65, of Dallas, Ga., is cutting back on her medicine because of the cost of fueling up her Buick. Cash is still taking her heart pills but is forgoing her inhaler and ulcer medicine for now.

 

"It's not easy," she said. "You have to do what you have to do."

 

The public's coping strategies are largely unchanged from March, with 72 percent having cut back on other expenses, 66 percent saying they've reduced the amount of driving they do and 48 percent changing vacation plans.

 

Since January, gas prices have shot up about 90 cents, with the national average for a gallon of regular this week at $3.96.

 

Financial analyst Nicole Polite in Baltimore sold her Nissan Altima recently and is taking public transportation, opting for the bus, rails and walking to get to work. Gas prices were just too high, she says, so she and her boyfriend downsized to a one-car household. She says they kept their Lexus sedan, which requires pricey premium gas.

 

"It's definitely a financial strain because now you have to reassess everything," said Polite, 32. "We don't go out as much. That $20 that we could have used to go to a movie — now that money has been absorbed by the gas tank."

 

But analysts say relief is coming. Fred Rozell, retail pricing director at the Oil Price Information Service, expects the price at the pump to drop as much as 40 cents in the next four weeks.

 

Until that happens, Ross Cobb in Boerne, Texas, will still try to keep his highway miles down. Cobb says he and his wife have been driving less and curbing trips into the city for their children's clothing and other supplies.

 

"We coordinate all of our trips into San Antonio," said Cobb, an associate athletic director at the University of Texas at San Antonio. "We don't ever go in anymore just for one particular errand. We wait until we've got two or three things to do."

 

The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted May 5-9 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

 

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If you are jealous of our cheap gas, why don't you come live in America?

 

Why do you complain about expensive food, when food is far more expensive in sub-Saharan African countries?

 

We're not complaining. We're just scratching our heads at why you're crying like babies about your relatively low gas prices (in comparison to the rest of the world), while if you had simple banking regulations, innovations in green energy, universal health care, and stronger income tax increases on the upper class you'd never have anywhere near the economic issues you're having right now in the United States.

 

BUT NO, IT'S "SOCIALISM"! BAH :dozey:

We're not complaining. We're just scratching our heads at why you're crying like babies about your relatively low gas prices (in comparison to the rest of the world), while if you had simple banking regulations, innovations in green energy, universal health care, and stronger income tax increases on the upper class you'd never have anywhere near the economic issues you're having right now in the United States.

 

BUT NO, IT'S "SOCIALISM"! BAH :dozey:

 

Funny you should say that.

 

Here's a good example of socialism:

 

 

But I guess they're "crying like babies" over there, too. ;)

 

if you had simple banking regulations

 

Like what? Be specific.

 

You must be under the impression the banks are somehow different or separated from the governments. They're on the same team.

 

Canada has its own troubles, too...

Well, I think this weekend it should be obvious why Americans got their shorts in a binder over gas prices - because we live in a nation of driveaholics, who rely on gas to propel monster vehicles, jet skis, yachts, and other ego-trippy things to the resort destinations, so we can live "the American lifestyle" of conspicuous consumption.

Americans just think of it as a right to have cheap gas so we can cruise wherever we want, whenever we want, without a thought about fuel consumption or cost. And the incentive for investing in commuter rail always seems to wane when the conservatives get their grip on power - we will always do the right thing, after we try everything else, that is.

Wasn't there a song that went something like: "It's just another pleasant valley Sunday, Sunday, here in status symbol land.. "?:laugh3: Competitive plumage is rarely in short supply.