Jun 30 2008
Is It Just Me?
I just finished an article, about the high price of gas and how people are changing their lives. Apparently, 9 of 10 people surveyed are going to face financial hardship because of gas prices. All income levels. Families all across the country are canceling vacations and trips because they can’t afford to drive.
WTH?
Has anyone taken the time to figure out just how far your car can go on a tank of gas? Have you figured out how much more per week, month, year that you are really spending? Did you figure out how much more your vacation would be, before you canceled it? Are you buying into the media’s fear driven reporting?
This all complete crap. Let me tell you why.
Lets do some math, and use my car as an example. My car gets an average of 20 MPG. I drive an average of 12,000 miles per year. My car has a 20 gallon tank. I get an average 400 miles per tank. That’s an average of 30 tanks of gas per year.
With me so far?
At $3.00 a gallon, that is $1800 per year. At $4.00 per gallon, it’s $2400 per year. A difference of $600 per year. $50 per month.
How often do you eat out? Go for drinks? Movies? $50 isn’t that much.
Lets talk vacations. You canceled your vacation because of gas prices.
Lets say your vacation is 2500 miles, round trip. Again, at 20 MPG, 400 miles per tank. That’s 6.25 tanks of gas. At $3.00 a gallon that was $375. At $4.00 per gallon it’s $500. A whopping total of $125.00.
Seriously? You are canceling a vacation because you can’t afford an extra $125. I think if your budget was that close to begin with, you should not have been thining about vacation anyway. You were going to drop at least a grand maybe a few. What if you had an accident? Blew a tire? Got sick?
Things come up and most of them are going to cost a hundred or more.
Do your selves a huge favor. Stop watching news programs. They exaggerate, lie and mislead for the sole purpose of frightening you beyond rational thought. They need us to live in constant fear. It’s all propaganda. Try it. See how much better your life gets when you turn them off.
For you conspiracy theorists out there, tell me if you’ve heard this one.
On average, every driver in the country is paying $600 more, per year, for gas. Does that number sound familiar? It’s also the average amount that each American got from GWB’s economic stimulus package.
Who in the current White House has ties to the Oil industry?
Oh ya…ALL OF THEM!
There are much bigger things to worry about in this country, than $4.00 a gallon gas.
