{OT} Gas prices up 66 percent since Jan

Well there is a price for a way of living. If you live out in the boonies then youre going to have to pay more in energy needs but the price is probablly offset in cheaper living.

Too bad! Life isnt fair. Not everyone can afford to live in wide open spaces. They better get use to the fact that times are changing and they arent any better than the person in the inner city.

Yeah...same here in MA.

Taxes haven't gone up on Gasoline in my state for a LONG time.

So... ??

Depends on what one's personal priorities are.

Cathy

Yeah, from here to Boston it's all toll roads - the entire way. Well, except for the first 3 - 4 miles. OTOH, certainly easy driving - until one hits Boston itself, that is!

Cathy

One tax that has gone up: Sales tax. That's usually a percent of the price, so if the price goes up 66% the state gets 66% more tax even if the rate stays the same.

We have federal gas tax, state gas tax and state sales tax on our gas here as in most states.

Charles of Schaumburg

From the Sunday Globe, about 20 years ago: "Stare Straight Ahead And Gun It!"

I covered that in the thread I started yesterday. Yup. It's like Best Buy having a bunch of iPods, and Apple announces a new iPod will be out in June, for $50 more and Best Buy raises the prices of iPods currently in stock immediately. Same thing. Few seem to get this.

$133 for every man, woman and child in the US? Yeah, that's inappropriate for a necessity! And, along with that, EVERYTHING increases: food, electricity, goods, services, everything! It should be regulated like almost all utilities are.

Tell me something: what are you getting for a dividend per share of your E-M stock? If it's nothing, and they have the biggest profit ever in the history of the US, you spent your money poorly. All *YOUR* profits are on paper, and unless you convert them, they're useless.

And, if the CEO of E-M has a heart attack tomorrow, and the Board elects Bozo The Clown, you're hit.

Or, everybody else besides me in the US decides it's too much and they boycott E-M. Then what? Can you say "Tank"?

Oil is not something people buy because they WANT to, for most Americans, it's a neccessity. What if your HMO or Insurance Co said they made $40B in profits, but are either charging you high prices, or, even better, denying you services? According to you, as long as the company is making money, then it's All Good, right? Ask some poor person with TMJ, which is not covered by almost EVERY health insurer. Ever had TMJ? It's a bitch, and unless it somehow manages to cure itself, it hurts and often returns even with surgery.

And a lot of Insurance Cos don't cover a lot of tests. This is also done in an effort to make a decent profit for their shareholders. But, I guess you're good with that, right?

I take 84 across to 684 while coming north.

Seems a lot of folks "hit" in Boston. Mass has some of the highest insurance rate in the county LOL

mike

Some. Mine are about the same as always. I hope the kids now don't get stuck with THEIR rates!

When I started driving I had a brand new Corolla, and my insurance was $687 a year. My Scion is the first car that rated an increase, to $837 a year.

Because MA regulates insurance, I'm paying less than I would if I had Geico or Progressive in VT.

Oh, way downstate in the narrow section; as long as one even semi plans ahead, that should pretty much be a piece of cake to do with no fill-ups w/in NYS.

Cathy

Actually the real reason I don't buy in NY is a couple of times I drove thru lower NYS late at night and could NOT find a gas station on the Interstate.

From then on, I choose not to do business in NY.....

Here in NY, we assume that people know how to read a map and know which towns look a little bigger than others. If idiots from Florida get stranded on the road, it's their own fault. Too much inbreeding.

NO OTHER STATE BETWEEN FLORIDA AND MAINE HAS THE PROBLEM.....

That makes it a NY problem.....

What highway was this?

My route used to be from the Garden State Parkway ending up crossing the Tapanzee Bridge. The problem (late at night) happens across the bridge on the way to Connecticut....

No wonder! White Plains, Rye...that's some of the most expensive real estate in America. No way a gas station would survive, paying the property taxes in that area, not to mention whatever it would cost to buy property close to the highway. In 1970, I figured out that you have to get gas before going over the bridge, or get yourself a map of White Plains and waste time wandering around local streets.

How many trips did it take for you NOT to figure that out?