Last day...
This is my last weekday of work before going back to school. I will still be working on some saturdays here, but school is just too far to try and work up here. 2 hours far, and one gas station this morning jumped to $2.79/gal. Ouch.
So don't worry, I will still be posting. It just may get a little more sporadic, especially over the next few days. I hope that once I get settled down there I will be able to resume some sort of regular posting and reading schedule.
Back to the gas... Ouch. At that price it costs more than thirty dollars to fill up my little car. And I hate to say it, but at some point something will have to give. I hope that I can make it back home for the weekends all semester, otherwise my mom will go crazy with my birds. But I can't afford for gas to cost more than food for the week. I managed for five years to feed three people on $50/week, but that was before we were getting slaughtered by gas prices, which is starting to affect food prices as well.
And a question about gas. I missed the whole oil embargo thing. But I hear tale that people learned to conserve gas during that period, and that the government imposed fuel efficiency standards so that less fuel was consumed. Now granted, we aren't suffering from an enforced shortage, but we are seeing higher prices due to higher demand. So why aren't people working on conserving, and why are we still seeing SUV's that get crap mileage? Why are these money pits still so popular?
I just have a hard time accepting the silence that is surrounding this. We all complain in the shadows, but the only thing we hear about gas in the news is the new price of oil in the markets. And this has to be hurting the economy. I can't afford some things that I'd like because I have to put that money into my gas tank. I'm sure that there are more like me.
Gas--->money--->Jobs.
Onto jobs... and minimum wage. Why have we not seen a national minimum wage increase in several years? If I went somewhere without a living wage law I would probably have a hard time getting paid what I do here. And I still have to budget just right to make my bills. At the current minimum wage anybody working full time would be considered poverty level, even with 2 household members working full time min wage. I'm sorry, but if you've got two full time people working a household should be able to get above poverty.
My father would say that this is part of a republican conspiracy to keep the poor, poor. But I have a hard time trying to keep my mouth shut, because it's been since before the current administration that this has gone on. But in his eyes clinton did no wrong.
Ok enough ranting for today.
So don't worry, I will still be posting. It just may get a little more sporadic, especially over the next few days. I hope that once I get settled down there I will be able to resume some sort of regular posting and reading schedule.
Back to the gas... Ouch. At that price it costs more than thirty dollars to fill up my little car. And I hate to say it, but at some point something will have to give. I hope that I can make it back home for the weekends all semester, otherwise my mom will go crazy with my birds. But I can't afford for gas to cost more than food for the week. I managed for five years to feed three people on $50/week, but that was before we were getting slaughtered by gas prices, which is starting to affect food prices as well.
And a question about gas. I missed the whole oil embargo thing. But I hear tale that people learned to conserve gas during that period, and that the government imposed fuel efficiency standards so that less fuel was consumed. Now granted, we aren't suffering from an enforced shortage, but we are seeing higher prices due to higher demand. So why aren't people working on conserving, and why are we still seeing SUV's that get crap mileage? Why are these money pits still so popular?
I just have a hard time accepting the silence that is surrounding this. We all complain in the shadows, but the only thing we hear about gas in the news is the new price of oil in the markets. And this has to be hurting the economy. I can't afford some things that I'd like because I have to put that money into my gas tank. I'm sure that there are more like me.
Gas--->money--->Jobs.
Onto jobs... and minimum wage. Why have we not seen a national minimum wage increase in several years? If I went somewhere without a living wage law I would probably have a hard time getting paid what I do here. And I still have to budget just right to make my bills. At the current minimum wage anybody working full time would be considered poverty level, even with 2 household members working full time min wage. I'm sorry, but if you've got two full time people working a household should be able to get above poverty.
My father would say that this is part of a republican conspiracy to keep the poor, poor. But I have a hard time trying to keep my mouth shut, because it's been since before the current administration that this has gone on. But in his eyes clinton did no wrong.
Ok enough ranting for today.
posted by Phoenixwaller | 10:29 AM
2 Comments:
I think he did too, but it was early.
We’re just loving our Vibe. Very good mileage for that amount of car.
As to the SUV owners, no sympathy here. Between the guzzling SUVs and all that cheap crap we import from China, no one should be surprised that demand is up.
But the roads are still crowded around here. Doesn’t seem like that many people are changing their ways.
Sarah
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