Posted by Christian (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 7:06 a.m.

While you all are talking about the high prices of gas, make sure you watch the pumps. Make sure you are getting the amount you're suppose to be getting.

Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 7:45 a.m.

Won't be making many trips to Texas to see the new grandbaby. Wish I could. Anyone want to donate? LOL

Posted by drawpaintsing (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 8:37 a.m.

I can see the ribs on my piggy bank.

Posted by buttercup26 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 9:09 a.m.

where do i start?? we sold our boat use to take 600 bucks to fill up and take out i can imagine how much it would cost now!! looking into selling our duramax diesel... last trip to natchez i spent 90% of my money on GAS!! not to mention it took every cent i had left to get back home.. it's just crazy!!

Posted by kpage (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 9:50 a.m.

LOL at draw!!!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna steal your line, Ok? That's a good one.

I guess we're gonna have to visit family like they did in the old days...plan to stay a month or so. But I have to remember what (I think) Ben Franklin said a million years ago...Fish are like guests in that they start to stink after three days. (unless it's your mama).

Posted by dixiemama (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 10:44 a.m.

freedom42, I'll get my son to build a covered wagon if you'll provide the horses. We'll put a big sign "TEXAS OR BUST" sigh on front.
Like kpage we'll probably be there to see every milestone of the babies first year.

Posted by ntzmom (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 11:01 a.m.

See if anyone can figure this one out!
I decided to just keep my car on FULL, so everytime it gets to 3/4 tank, I top it off.
The first day I did that, it cost me 28 bucks. I thought, Oh My God.....
next time, it cost 32 bucks.
SO, then I decided to see exactly how much a cost..I was expecting 100 dollars or more.
I let the car go till it said fuel level low, I filled up and it was only 55 dollars....
Why do y'all thiink getting a 1/4 tank at a time was costing so much more than just filling the whole tank?

Posted by BenDoubleCrossed (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 11:25 a.m.

FOREIGN WARS OR DOMESTIC OIL

If the US Government spent a trillion dollars over 8 years on domestic oil production from known reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, the Continental Shelf and coal gasification instead of War in Iraq gas would be $2 a gallon or less. America could quit sending billions to countries that sponsor terrorism. And reducing our trade imbalance keeps jobs in America. Every billion of trade deficit costs 13,000 jobs. $400 billion for oil last year: do the math.

America has 1/4th the coal on planet earth. South Africa is producing 300,000 barrels of gas and diesel a day from coal. And synthetic fuel from coal is cleaner burning than gas. And it can be produced cheaper than from $100+ a barrel crude oil.

Harness your anger at the pump. Call you're US Senators and demand domestic production in this decade. If you don’t raise your voice the oil companies and politicians will assume you are ready to pay even more.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 11:35 a.m.

My car gets great gas mileage...parked in the garage. It's paid for, and would cost too much to purchase a new more economical one, so I just stay home. It has a 40 gal tank and I can drive from here to Houston and still have a 1/4 of a tank of gas left when I get there. I like not having to stop for gas that often, but it cost more when I do. My husband used to come home and say let's go for a ride, but now he says, I'd take you for a ride if gas wasn't so high. Now, I'm lucky if I get to go buy groceries, and I'm thinking of purchasing a three wheeled bike with a basket on back (if my gov stimulus check ever arrives) to ride to the grocery store. I would buy a horse, but they have to be fed. I'm thinking for my husband, instead of just a bike, I will buy him a moped so he won't have to pedel so hard to get up that hill going to work.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 11:49 a.m.

Bush "convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment," McClellan writes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_o...

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 12:07 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq "helps Al-Qaeda" and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke said Tuesday.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080528/us...

Posted by Swapmeet (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 1:54 p.m.

I just heard this on the radio: if you adjust for inflation, gas prices have risen about 1% annually since 1981. Compare that with 350% for education. It's not as bad as many other things. Also, the oil companies have a smaller gross profit margin that soft drink companies. They are not evil as some claim.

Posted by Fonzarosa (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 2:58 p.m.

Swapmeet !!!!!! you are one stupid individual there is NO soft drink company or beer company making 13 billion profit a quarter it is not going to matter to me as I'm use to paying 7 to 8 US dollars for
gas as I have lived in London for the past ten years you let these Repuglicans deregulate everything in America and that's why everything is the way it is. And people in Mississippi have the nerve to not want UNIONS that's why you are as Poor of a State as
you are

Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 3:43 p.m.

I own a small company and last week, I spent $485.00 on gasoline. This is ridiculous. I did a small job for a customer and she asked why my price was so high, I told her if she wanted to pay my gas bill for a month, it would be free. She cut the check and did not ask another question about her $900.00 bill for repairs.

We are going to have to re-think the way we do everything. We are going to have to have shorter commutes, and working out of town is going to be a thing of teh past.

Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 3:44 p.m.

Dixiemama, sure I'll provide the horses! One is already trained to harness, the other isn't. That should be a rodeo!
Yeah, we need to get your son over here. ck your email!

Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 3:52 p.m.

red, I know my company is way smaller than yours, and I have had to raise my prices to cover gas. Most people understand, I have only had one drop me. Also I now have my helpers come to my house in the mornings since it is closer for them, and we truck-pool in to which ever place we are working. Since I have a very small truck, it makes for closeness! lol

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 7:20 p.m.

The problem with your comment swapmeet is that not everyone drinks cokes, not everyone has to pay for an education, but just about everyone has to buy gas.

Posted by woodduck (anonymous) on May 28, 2008 at 10:44 p.m.

We are reaping the grain of what we sowed over the past 100 years here in the USA. We insisted on bigger and bigger vehicles (SUV’s and pickups). We created suburban “sprawl´that put us further and further from our workplace. We voted against and refused to endorse any form of mass transit. Much of this can be laid at the feet of “big oil”, but no one put a gun to our head and forced us to move 30-40 miles from our job, or forced us to buy that Suburban or F-250 Super Duty. Now we are paying the price.

Europe has had this problem for years and years. I was in the UK in 2003 and we paid the equivalent of 4.00 USD for gas. My wife and I have traveled all over Europe over the past few years. Nowhere did I ever see a pickup! Even in the rural areas of Scotland, the pickups were Land Rovers with small beds and single cabs And they were few and far between. The average family has one car, usually very small and diesel powered, getting upwards to 50 MPG. We were in Paris, the only big cars and SUV’s were the ones owned by Middle Eastern visitors, spending their PetroEuros. The French drove Cars so small they could use the back of an Expedition as a garage. Many rode scooters, motorbikes or bicycles. If you travel out of town generally you take the train. Mass transit is well developed, safe clean and runs on time. The Europeans realized many years ago that they had to economize, so they spent their Euros on developing high speed rail, trollys busses and Metros (subways). What did we do? We kept building bigger and bigger cars and more and more miles of concrete to run them on. Now the “Chickens are coming home to roost”

Oil will not get any cheaper. Oh, it may drop a little, as it has done in the past, but every oil “Crisis anywhere on the globe will send it back up. Several very respected CEO’s of oil companies and oil trading companies are predicting 150-200 oil in the next couple of years. So the problem isn’t going away, it’s only going to get worse. As gas prices continue to rise, it will eventually mean the demise of suburbia. Folks will not continue to pay a larger and larger percentage of their income for the privilege of living in the “burbs”.

Posted by NtzMom55 (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 5:08 a.m.

Other places in the World are used to high prices for fuel but we are not. So I, like so many others, have to cut back on other things just to make it. And when we cut back on other things, that just domino's down hurting even more people...like job losses, etc. But it still puzzles me to see so many people on the road in Natchez, especially on a Friday. Go figure.

Posted by mudzillaefi (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 7:27 a.m.

It is great, Job security.Keep em up.

Posted by natchezsouthside (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 9:05 a.m.

I'm buying a Vespa.

Posted by firered (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 11:44 a.m.

I have to drive from Washington (north of Natchez) to Ferriday everyday for work. Gas prices are killing me. I have NO spending money left over after I pay my bills.

Posted by texasranger (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 2:06 p.m.

Life as we know it will change drastically.Everything is driven by fuel costs. It will take a little while but the price of everything will skyrocket. It,s gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 29, 2008 at 11:50 p.m.

Freedom I see that you also believe in child love and applaud the mormon cult getting their children returned. Here's a photo of Jeffs and his youngling brides. I thought that might make you feel all warm and fuzzy.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/yea...

Posted by thetinman (Keith Reynolds) on May 30, 2008 at 5:53 a.m.

There wasn't to much mentioned about getting bicycles and used them to commute to work. Natchezsouthside, I have checked into getting a Vespa, have you seen the price on one? Just a little rough figuring, but a vehicle getting 25 mpg vs a vespa getting 75mpg, not sure if correct, but anyways!!! at 3.50 a gallon of gas, if you use two gallons of gas a day getting back and forth to work, or $7.00 USD, the Vespa would only use $2.31 USD. Basically a savings of only $1,172.50 a year. With in four years, you will have your Vespa paid for.

A real nice bicycle, let's say $250.00, No oil changes, replace tires from time to time, and safety equipment about another $150.00, NO INSURANCE, All other, the MUCH NEEDED EXERCISE, we Americans need, getting more physically in shape, "PRICELESS"

Posted by kpage (anonymous) on May 30, 2008 at 10:16 a.m.

Good point, Keith Reynolds, aka thetinman. I need a bicycle with a basket. I would be set if the grocery store down the road from me hadn't closed a couple years ago. At least I have Fred's...they do have some grocery items.

I want one of them big ole tricycles with the basket in the front and back. You can ride a 12-year old in that back basket! And a huge load of groceries! Anyone know someone who has one for sale? If not, I'm opting for one of freedom's horses.

Posted by fire39212 (anonymous) on May 30, 2008 at 9:12 p.m.

I have checked into the Uber hybird 330 mpg...Sell for less than 20,000.00 Looks better and better to me....

Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on May 31, 2008 at 8:49 a.m.

Yall these ideas are great. I need to check into them. A tricycle with a basket for all my lumber, shingles, paint, concrete and earthwork.....that just might work....

Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on May 31, 2008 at 9:52 a.m.

I thought the war bush started was supposed to give us cheap Iraqi oil? I am staff on a U. S. Marine only site and we voted amongst ourselves to get out of Iraq. The USMC is an assault force not a police force. Our Commandant,Gen. Conway, tried to get bush to pull the Marines out of Iraq, let the army take over there, and put the Marines in A$$crackistan where they're needed to fight. bush wouldn't do it.
Oh well when bush, cheney, and saddam all get to hell they can fight it out there.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 31, 2008 at 1:43 p.m.

red, you would probably need to hook-up a wagon to pull behind your bike to haul some of that stuff, lol. Some folks are just gonna have to keep a truck handy.

I was looking at the Harley Davidson website, and on there, it said you could invest in a HOG for $99/month. What you would save on gas would pay for one of their less expensive bikes...plus you'd look cool riding down the road, like Easy Rider.

Posted by buttercup26 (anonymous) on May 31, 2008 at 4:01 p.m.

((woodduck)) I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU ANY MORE!! there is no one to blame but ourselves!! no one.....

Posted by frogprincenessntz (anonymous) on May 31, 2008 at 4:42 p.m.

Woodduck...I also enjoyed your post. My daughter-in-law told me last week that gas in 1.5 Euro per liter in Germany. 3.5 liters to a gallon roughly and then the bad rate of exchange makes it between 8 and 10 dollars a gallon US. Everybody is hurting.

Posted by southerngurl601 (anonymous) on June 1, 2008 at 1:27 a.m.

Maybe you all need to start walking and cycling more. Natchez and surrounding areas aren't that big. I'm purchasing a bike today.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on June 1, 2008 at 2:22 a.m.

I heard that thieves are beginning to steal gas from automobile tanks. I haven't bought one in a long time, but in the past when I purchased a locking gas cap, it wasn't that expensive. That might help to deter them from stealing your gas, unless they poke a hole underneath the gas tank. You might consider leaving the light on underneath your carport or investing in a motion detector light.

Yep, an old fashioned bike that you pedal is sounding better and better...plus you can park it inside most homes.

Posted by NtzMom55 (anonymous) on June 1, 2008 at 11:39 p.m.

Click on this site and watch the video. You will be amazed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5a6iuPkNc

Posted by kpage (anonymous) on June 2, 2008 at 8:07 a.m.

NtzMom55...I noticed on that site that other's are doing the salt water thing too! I sure hope they get on that soon. Unfortunately, they won't. The big guys in Washington and Wall Street are making billions off of us and be damned if they'll change that!
Thanks for the link, Mom.

Posted by fire39212 (anonymous) on June 3, 2008 at 12:08 a.m.

I found where you can buy a convertor for water.

Posted by kpage (anonymous) on June 3, 2008 at 3:12 p.m.

Wonder how much that would cost to convert my engine to salt water? That would tick off Chavez and Co. AND the Ay-rabs if we all did that. I noticed NASCAR uses Sunoco (or is it Sonoco) fuel in their cars. Good ole American fuel company.