Stockpiling would be nice. Better yet, I wish I could live without it altogether. After working on cars for over 33 years, horses and buggies would be okay with me.  I recently read that if gas hits $4 bucks a gallon a majority of  U.S. citizens will "radically" change their lifestyles. I wonder if "radically" includes simply obeying the speed limit.

Fill up next week.

Gas is going down.

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lol...  Here we go.  People are all buzzing about hoarding strategies. 

The inflation fuse has been lit.  Explosion soon to follow. 

For the record, I hoard as many things as my living space will allow.  My wife thinks its nutty, but it makes me feel safer, and has likely saved me a buck or two. 

I agree with dispensing with the car altogether.  I am thinking about a move to SF, and if I do so, I am going to get rid of the car.   

Our Govt. sometimes is our own worst enemy.  Homeland Security is funding new storage facilities of fuel at smaller airports under the premise that if terrorists were to attack an airport it would be a mojor airport.  Having lots of fuel at the smaller general aviation airports would allow for smaller Jets ect. to continue to function even though the big planes might be limited.  So we are storing more fuel even though we might not be using it.

Many smaller trucking companies have their own tanks of fuel at their facilities so that they have a guaranteed supply.  Rather than go to a truckstop, for instance, they have their own hoard.  Right now industry can not build enough fuel tanks to keep this economy happy.  Construction, landscaping, logging, farming, marinas all hoarding and multiply it by 50 states; we have a lot of fuel in places you wouldn't normally think to find it stored.  No wonder there is a shortage and prices are high.

Add to that the Govt. requiring boutique fuels for different parts of the country so that the refineries can't operate efficiently and guess what. $4.00/gal gas.

I tell you what, this whole gas situation has me seething!  A few years ago, I bought  3/4 ton diesel pickup.  I have wanted one all my life, and at the tender age of 47 I finally arrived at a point in my life I could get one.  Saving money on fuel was one of the major factors, remember when diesel was cheaper then gas?  Wasn't long before the price of fuel crept up, and I thought well it must be supply and demand.  That the price would come down after a few months.  Ha, yeah right.....

I don't drive my pick up anymore, I haven't driven it more than a hundred miles in the past eight months and now I'm thinking of selling it, and it breaks my heart but I gotta face reality.  And what is that reality?  The price of fuel is very high.  And why is the price of fuel this high?  I'm not sure, but I do know this.

Speculators have something to do with it, US big oil has something to do with it, OPEC has something to do with it, world demand has something to do with it, and our government has something to do with it.  Our government should have seen this coming, they have the means to ease this burden, but they make as much money in tax revenue from the gas pump as the oil companies do in profit.  So, I have to laugh every time I hear someone put all the blame on those big evil oil companies. 

I know that I'm hurting out here in the land of reality.  I'd trade places with any member of the federal government for a week, just so they can see what it's like to have to pay for their own fuel out of there own pocket.  It must be nice to live inside the insulated pocket of the beltway...........

 

 

 

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I wonder where all the Hummers have gone...

Hmmm, that could be a title for a song.

Wait til you see what price your truck will fetch; you will have another broken heart!

Rick

It's a real shame that our gov't doesn't encourage more car mfg. to sell vehicles that run off diesel in the U.S..  Newer diesel engines are not only cleaner but they're also more efficient than their gas brethren.  Not to mention, biodiesel holds so much more potential versus ethanol, which is gov't inefficiency at it's best!