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Yup, filling my tank has reached the tipping point and if I'm gonna keep fishing where I want to fish, as often as I normally fish, something in my budget has to go. This stinks.

 

Are the gas prices changing your plans at all?

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Gas prices haven't hit me hard yet... I drive an older honda that gets 40 city 48 highway and live within 15 miles of every Steelhead stream in Pennsylvania...

 

Oh Yea I'm retired so I have nowhere I HAVE to be lol

 

 

 

 

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At this point I'm getting use to it. I figure that gas prices will be 2.75 to 3.50 and that is that. I guess its been long enough I'm at the point where I realize unless we do more to get more oil from our own land its not going to change.

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You're right. Oil is going to be high and so is gas. Oil hit $97.00 a barrel, and it'll be higher. Everyone is going to have to get used to that.

 

Many people in the U.S. are against drilling, and they're against new refineries, but they want cheap gas. That's an impossible combination.

 

Ray

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I figure i spend at least $10 in gas just for 2 trips to the river last week, caught 1 fat brown. that's an expensive fish, especially when $10 is about 1/10 of all I had to spend (food and gas) for the 2 weeks. yeah, i shouldn't have gone, but i had to get out and fish with some forum members! oh, and did i mention i caught a fat brown? :headbang:

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hey, you guys are still lucky paying under 3$ a gallon.

 

here I pay by the liter and yesterday it was 1.12 a liter

 

lets see 4.2 liters to a gallon ====4.48a gallon.

 

and Canadas rich in oil, its all B.S. by our Gouvt.

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hey, you guys are still lucky paying under 3$ a gallon.

 

here I pay by the liter and yesterday it was 1.12 a liter

 

lets see 4.2 liters to a gallon ====4.48a gallon.

 

and Canadas rich in oil, its all B.S. by our Gouvt.

 

 

 

Brownsnatcher its called socialism. Our government is quickly trying to abandon our republic and go to socialism. So soon we will fund government dependence with higher taxes too. Your problem is not that of supply it is taxes.

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You can analyze it all you want, truth is even if it was only $10 a barrel I guarantee you we'd still be paying $3.00 a gallon. If they can get that price then they will no matter what.

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I believe that the prices are so high because of those futures traders who claim the price per barrel is going to go up, and then it does because they've been whining and crying about how it was going to go up. Get rid of the futures markets and the prices drop.

 

 

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Yeah I feel your pain.

 

I drive a silverado 2500HD and I get like 10 miles per gallon.

 

I spend about 10.00 a day in gas. I'm trading this bastard in next week though and getting a smaller ford f-150 or I also like the toyota FJ.

Any body know what kind of gas mileage the FJ gets.

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FJ :headbang: Its got to be better than a 2500 HD!! I love the FJ if I were in the market for a new car that would be it. That or a Tacoma TRD.

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My sister and her family have a full size Ford Excursion with a 44 gal tank....you do the math :ph34r:

 

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The gas prices have in fact affected my thinking about driving. Things cost more than they used to 20 years ago; a lot more. Mainly labor costs more. Food prices increase slowly, but they do increase. I never thought I would set around and complain about the cost of stuff when I get old, but here I am. Forty years old, setting around complaining because it is going to cost over $500 for just the labor to replace the heat exchanger in a 3 year old furnace. The furnace was brand new 3 years ago, the heat exchanger burnt through; the installer says it is because we have inadequate ductwork in our house, and that in addition to filters that had been a little dusty and a chimney that needed cleaning caused the heat exchanger to burn out prematurely. So I am totally remodeling our furnace room. Yesterday I went and got some flooring, cheap paneling for the walls, the cheapest ceiling tile they had, and some plumbing to move a drain line, for a room that is about 58 square feet of floor space. The bill came to $465. I am pretty sure 10 years ago those materials would have cost me less than $300. Whenever I go to drive somewhere now I think about how much it is going to cost. I just don't drive as far or as much to fish. I spend more time tying flies that way I guess. But I am still driving over to Mason on Dec. 1. The weekend after Thanksgiving I have a room reserved at the Wellston Inn for 2 nights, about 3-1/2 hours drive from here, but that is really going to be more like a honeymoon and less like a fishing trip :devil:

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