my car gets 25-30 depending on traffic and conditions. Im gonna need a new one in the next year or so. Got 205K and hoping to make it to 250K

I've never bought a new car before and if I did it wouldn't be an Equinox. :lol:

What milage does your car get?

Aint no busses out here in the sticks. Could ride a horse, but in todays society thats animal cruelty, so what other options you got.

 

Move. Get a new job.

 

My point is we CHOOSE to live where we live, work where we work, and drive what we drive. We don't need the govt stepping in to regulate prices.

I actually agree. My post was more to point out that your example was silly. What I do think we need is better oversight to make sure the oil companies are playing fair.

 

SOmetimes I use the absurd to make a point.

 

Give me ways you think the oil companies might not be playing fairly.

Move. Get a new job.

 

My point is we CHOOSE to live where we live, work where we work, and drive what we drive. We don't need the govt stepping in to regulate prices.

So you want everyone in the state of KY to move to NKY, Lex or Lou so they can take the bus? A lot of people can't just pick up and move anyway.

So you want everyone in the state of KY to move to NKY, Lex or Lou so they can take the bus? A lot of people can't just pick up and move anyway.

 

We make choices. I fully respect someone's choice to live in rural America. However, with the good comes the bad and one of those bad items is the cost of gas. Pick where you want to live but deal with everything good and bad that comes with it. Don't ask the govt to step into the free market.

SOmetimes I use the absurd to make a point.

 

Give me ways you think the oil companies might not be playing fairly.

OK, let's look at yesterday's jump. What was the cause? Taxes didn't increase. Cost of transportation didn't increase. Competition didn't play a role. Also, like DF already pointed out. Increases are .10, .20, even .30 jumps all at once. Decreases are fractions of that. For gas to decrease .30 would take 2 weeks min.

Move. Get a new job.

 

My point is we CHOOSE to live where we live, work where we work, and drive what we drive. We don't need the govt stepping in to regulate prices.

 

Will do, give me your house and your job and I will, lol.

So you want everyone in the state of KY to move to NKY, Lex or Lou so they can take the bus? A lot of people can't just pick up and move anyway.

 

Heck, besides covington, tell me where in residential areas you can get on a bus.

Heck, besides covington, tell me where in residential areas you can get on a bus.

 

The entirety of the modern transit system is designed to do two things: 1) move commercial goods from once place to another as quickly as possible and 2) move people from where they live to where they work. The second part has -- for the last 60 years -- been driven by getting people from spread-out suburbs into a city's central business district. It's a system driven by the development of relatively cheap, mass-produced automobiles, cheap gasoline and government willingness to build new roadways to accommodate the people that want to live far away from where they work. They were not designed with mass transit systems in mind and in many cases, such as both Louisville and Cincinnati, make mass transit extremely difficult to use. People simply don't live close enough together for it to work.

 

Citizens demanded to live in the suburbs in huge numbers after WWII and still do all the way through the present. That's not strange. What's strange is that the government actually listened to its citizens and gave them everything they wanted: a relatively low gas tax that still funds all those road projects.

 

Why does it matter what I enjoy? I don't enjoy Mercedes selling their cars for $70k but I'm not looking for someone to police them.

 

Is a Mercedes a needed commodity?

 

We make choices. I fully respect someone's choice to live in rural America. However, with the good comes the bad and one of those bad items is the cost of gas. Pick where you want to live but deal with everything good and bad that comes with it. Don't ask the govt to step into the free market.

 

Continue to let the market be the wild Wild West? So gouging gas prices are apart of the free market? Freedom isn't free, nor is the market. We all pay for others greed.

OK, let's look at yesterday's jump. What was the cause? Taxes didn't increase. Cost of transportation didn't increase. Competition didn't play a role. Also, like DF already pointed out. Increases are .10, .20, even .30 jumps all at once. Decreases are fractions of that. For gas to decrease .30 would take 2 weeks min.

 

As I stated before the recent output by refineries is at a 5-yr low. That's driving prices. But, again, even if it's simply "extra profit" I don't want any govt agency involved. I can either pay it or change something. I get to choose.

Will do, give me your house and your job and I will, lol.

 

We do agree that there is no law saying you have to live where you live, right?

Continue to let the market be the wild Wild West? So gouging gas prices are apart of the free market? Freedom isn't free, nor is the market. We all pay for others greed.

 

Yes. The market is king - as it should be. I'm stunned that people want the govt to have rules about prices.

 

You want them controlling prices of milk? My milk bill is really big and a gallon is very expensive.