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09-20-2010, 05:29 PM | #55 |
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ok I do not remember the times before 1989 since I was 4 but the Communism was also here. yeah we were unlucky to be in the east block after world war second :( look at the countries like spain and italy etc if they were under Communism for such a long time it would be the same.
now the situation is good in Slovakia I can't complain (of course there are better places to live) but this is y homeland. and before crisis we were the fast growing economy in Europe :) but I haven't shown ID to buy a oil or sugar ;) |
09-20-2010, 06:35 PM | #56 |
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i miss 99 cent gas
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09-20-2010, 08:29 PM | #57 |
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So do I! Last time I bought gas for under a dollar was 1998 in Altoona, PA. There was a price war between two mom and pop gas stations. One station got down to 92 cents!
Cheers!
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09-21-2010, 07:29 AM | #58 |
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I remember paying between $0.89 and $0.99 a gallon when I first started driving in mid 1999... (Lehigh Valley, PA)
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09-21-2010, 07:42 AM | #59 |
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I think a fair and easy to calculate price for fuel is $1 a gallon. That's just what it should always be.
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09-21-2010, 11:11 AM | #60 |
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that would be so nice, I can handle spending $11 to fill my tank.
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09-21-2010, 11:31 AM | #61 |
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Oh yeah...
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09-21-2010, 12:31 PM | #62 |
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Why not making it even easier to calculate and make the damn thing free
Like air. After all, we're burning more air than fuel and we don't have to pay for it
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09-21-2010, 03:27 PM | #63 |
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you know if they could figure out how, they'd tax the air we breathe.
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No, honestly, aren't "they" us? I mean, a neighbor, a cousin, an uncle, working for uncle Sam? And more importantly, didn't we put them there?
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09-21-2010, 06:23 PM | #65 |
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I think $1 is fair. That's all I'm going to pay from now on. :)
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09-21-2010, 09:38 PM | #66 |
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If gas was 1 dollar a gallon there would be alot more GIANT suv's like excursions and suburbans with one soccer mom yacking on her cell phone blocking up the roadways and cutting people off. Since the fuel prices have gone up the small car competition has gotten better and there are alot more small cars to choose from. I just don't see how people think 20 bucks a week in a yaris is alot of money for transportation.
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09-21-2010, 11:51 PM | #67 |
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Seconded. Fuel IS cheap in North America, and always has been; just because one can remember a buck a gallon, rest assured that everything else has gone up INCLUDING wages.
I started driving 40mpg+ cars when fuel was 35c a gallon (Imp), simply because I saw no reason to herd a couple of tons of iron from place to place with just me in it. Eventually the habit stuck, which is why I drive a Yaris now. The Europeans have always paid far more for fuel than we have, and that paid off in more efficient vehicles over history. Why do we feel that we "deserve" cheaper fuel than anyone else?? |
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We in America have that open-road, pony-car, I'll-never-take-public-transportation, yippee-kye-yay mentality that has been ingrained in us since forever. I'm 54 and all I wanted as a teenager was some fast, gas-hungry car I could go speeding down the road in. You see it today, in all the teenagers who want Mustangs or Chargers or Camaros or anything that has POWER. So, generation after generation is getting continually brainwashed by the American automakers that they really don't care as much about gas prices and saving natural resources as they do showing off in front of their buddies. And on it goes as they get older...
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And then, people should be allowed to do what they want, not what some governmental peon tells them to.
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09-22-2010, 12:56 PM | #72 |
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Well, hopefully I am being successful in talking my 17-year-old son into a Yaris. I just asked him if he wanted to work and spend a fair portion of his money on gas. Who would? Most everyone in the U.S. would, I guess.
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