It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage

[CactusCarlos]

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It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage
Posted by rateyes on Mon Apr-28-08 11:51 AM

makes in an hour. The article linked below says analysts are predicting gasoline to go as high as $10 a gallon by next year. That means that a person working 8 hours a day at minimum wage would have to work almost two days just to fill up an automobile with a 15 gallon gas tank ONE TIME.

Hey Republicans---if this is OK with you, go ahead and vote for McCain and the other Repukes. Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office, and if you're OK with the way the economy is going---keep voting Republican, but don't bitch and moan about gas and food prices, and the depression we're headed for---BECAUSE YOU ARE GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE---pricks.

http://www.nysun.com/news/business/gas-price-may-soon-cost-sawbuck

Hey stupid - seems to me that the only ones whining about gas and food prices and depression and wallowing in their self-pity are you asshats over there at the DUmp.  You ****ers have had a majority Congress for over a year and haven't done shit about gas prices - what makes you think electing TheBarackStar or Hillbilly Clinton is going to make things any better?

[Uhhuh35]

Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office,

I bought my first home during the Clinton administration, my second during the Bush administration. So yes, there is more money there now that "idiot-boy" has taken office. Thanks George! 

[CactusCarlos]

Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office

The wife makes sure that my wallet stays clean of any pesky greenbacks. 

[Airwolf]

Well If I don't get some kind of raise soon then the boss is going to need a whole new work force because all of us are speanding alot of our paychecks to get to work.

[Chris_]

Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office,

I bought my first home during the Clinton administration, my second during the Bush administration. So yes, there is more money there now that "idiot-boy" has taken office. Thanks George!  :-)

Look again, but change the timeline.  Compare your wallet now to your wallet before the dims too Congress.  Compare gas prices for the same period.

It is the dimocrat Congress that is causing all this misery.

[PatriotGame]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage makes in an hour.

It's pretty fracking bad when you commie Pagan Earth Worshiping pricks will block America from drilling and using its OWN oil so we are forced to buy it from towell headed terrorists.

It's pretty fracking bad when you commie pricks have bastardized thus ruined the educational system in this nation to the point where high school graduates read at a fifth grade level, if at all, and have zero concept of making change from a dollar. This is turn has enslaved millions of Americans to welfare or non-skilled labor jobs that are NOT worth 30 bucks an hour!

It's pretty fracking bad that the VRWC hasen't opened the camps, declared MARITAL Law and used our jack boots to drop kick your asses behind the camp fences.

Ok, that VRWC thing is a logistical issue that will be remided just as soon as Bush attacks Iran, in approximately 23.7 business days. 

[PatriotGame]

Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office

The wife makes sure that my wallet stays clean of any pesky greenbacks. 

You too huh? At least she gives me an allowance so I can pay my VRWC dues. 

[Airwolf]

Check your wallets and see if there is more or less there than there was when idiot-boy took office,

I bought my first home during the Clinton administration, my second during the Bush administration. So yes, there is more money there now that "idiot-boy" has taken office. Thanks George! 

Look again, but change the timeline.  Compare your wallet now to your wallet before the dims too Congress.  Compare gas prices for the same period.

It is the dimocrat Congress that is causing all this misery.

Which president enactedthe largest tax increase while in office and made it retroactice as well ? I'm pretty much certain it was BJ Bill Clinton and to this day its still around.

[mamacags]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage makes in an hour.

It's pretty fracking bad when you commie Pagan Earth Worshiping pricks will block America from drilling and using its OWN oil so we are forced to buy it from towell headed terrorists.

It's pretty fracking bad when you commie pricks have bastardized thus ruined the educational system in this nation to the point where high school graduates read at a fifth grade level, if at all, and have zero concept of making change from a dollar. This is turn has enslaved millions of Americans to welfare or non-skilled labor jobs that are NOT worth 30 bucks an hour!

It's pretty fracking bad that the VRWC hasen't opened the camps, declared MARITAL Law and used our jack boots to drop kick your asses behind the camp fences.

Ok, that VRWC thing is a logistical issue that will be remided just as soon as Bush attacks Iran, in approximately 23.7 business days. 

The beauty of your post brought a tear to my eye. H5!

[jtyangel]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to side with the dummies on this. The cost of gas at this point is indeed high enough to make us rethink anything that we do that involves driving for leisure. I've got to believe that some folks on this point, you have a place where the gas price makes a dent on you, especially when you figure in how it affects the prices of other things like food. The only thing I can see being had for cheap right now are travel necessities like hotel rooms and such. I can't imagine that most are filled as they normally might have been at one time.

I'm going to gut the prices out to take a trip to my dad's house in Florida, but only if my mother can go with me and split the gas costs. And even then we can only do it because we'll be staying at my dad's house for 2 weeks so the cost of a hotel is cut out completely.

I do have to feel with teens and such who occupy min. wage positions. I mean, I remember being a teenager and 3.50 a gallon gas would have hurt...I can't imagine much higher! LOL 

[jukin]

In 2006 America voted for change. What change they did not know. 

This is the change the democrat majorities in congress have brought:

1. Unemployment is up 10% (4.6%-5.1%)

2. Gas is up 45%. (I remember that Pelosi had a plan for making gas cheaper than the $2.36 it was, guess telling the world that we refuse to drill for our own oil was it).

3. The stock market is down 22%. Guess telling investors that you will increase taxes on their investment might make them sell or walk away.

4. Foreclosures are way up. Guess telling investors that you will increase taxes on their investment might make them sell or walk away.

5. Budget deficit is 250% more.

6. Taxes for the lowest income payers will rise 50%.

The really bad news is that the democrat presidential candidates are going to bring us more CHANGE.  Liberal change is never for the better.

[Lord Undies]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to side with the dummies on this.

Then you are wrong.  It isn't Republicans who have kept this nation at the mercy of foreign oil.  It isn't Republicans who throw a hissy fit every time a American drill bit aims towards the earth.  It isn't Republicans who have been trying their damn best to get gasoline up to the five dollar and above range for the last twenty years (of course, the democrats wanted to do it with taxes). 

[Lauri]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to side with the dummies on this.

Then you are wrong.  It isn't Republicans who have kept this nation at the mercy of foreign oil.  It isn't Republicans who throw a hissy fit every time a American drill bit aims towards the earth.  It isn't Republicans who have been trying their damn best to get gasoline up to the five dollar and above range for the last twenty years (of course, the democrats wanted to do it with taxes). 

the female who stole the governer's mansion in 2004 slapped us with a 50 cent per gallone tax hike as soon as she landed on the door step.

her leftie legislators helped her pass it .. i really dont want to hear liberals bitching about the people THEY put in office or the amount of oil they refuse to let the US drill for in this country. maybe it needs to get this bad (or worse) before people wise up and realize who's doing the gouging here.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

"Analysts say"?  I heard on the news last night that someone was predicting $7/gal gas by 2012, now this one predicts $10/gal gas by next year?  Both of those people are off their flipping rockers.

[Lord Undies]

"Analysts say"?  I heard on the news last night that someone was predicting $7/gal gas by 2012, now this one predicts $10/gal gas by next year?  Both of those people are off their flipping rockers.

You are correct.  There is a saturation point in all aspects of economics.  This gasoline pricing situation will soon reach that point.  People will park their cars and say "to hell with it".  That will be the day tax revenue will be threatened and it will be decided something must be done. 

The American voting and driving public have a lot more power over this situation than anyone involved wants to admit.

[PatriotGame]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to side with the dummies on this.

Then you are wrong.  It isn't Republicans who have kept this nation at the mercy of foreign oil.  It isn't Republicans who throw a hissy fit every time a American drill bit aims towards the earth.  It isn't Republicans who have been trying their damn best to get gasoline up to the five dollar and above range for the last twenty years (of course, the democrats wanted to do it with taxes). 

H5! +1

[Airwolf]

"Analysts say"?  I heard on the news last night that someone was predicting $7/gal gas by 2012, now this one predicts $10/gal gas by next year?  Both of those people are off their flipping rockers.

You are correct.  There is a saturation point in all aspects of economics.  This gasoline pricing situation will soon reach that point.  People will park their cars and say "to hell with it".  That will be the day tax revenue will be threatened and it will be decided something must be done. 

The American voting and driving public have a lot more power over this situation than anyone involved wants to admit.

Its already happening with the truckers. Today 100 truck drivers went to DC to protest the price of Diesel.  Iremember some dumbass over at CU trying to tell me that wouldn't happen or that they wouldn't strike to make it happen. I guess we know who was right. The trucking industry has the biggest impact on how much gas is used day to day. If they can't make money then they are not working. Its a simple concept that seemed to have slipped that tool over at CU.

[Lacarnut]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to side with the dummies on this.

Then you are wrong.  It isn't Republicans who have kept this nation at the mercy of foreign oil.  It isn't Republicans who throw a hissy fit every time a American drill bit aims towards the earth.  It isn't Republicans who have been trying their damn best to get gasoline up to the five dollar and above range for the last twenty years (of course, the democrats wanted to do it with taxes). 

H5! +1

H5 #2!  While the peanut farmer was in office, he stated "the US will not be held hostage to foreign oil again". All of those wonderful ideas were cast aside by a Democratic Congress when the supply returned to normalcy and the price dropped like a rock. These assholes in Congress did not bail out the Wildcatters in this country. They just went under. The morons in DC can subsidize the alternative fuel crowd but want to sock it to the oil companies with higher taxes. Does not good sense to me. Along with that, liberals portray the oil companies as evil, don't want new drilling, don't want new refineries or nuke plants; all they want to do is to blame the oil companies for making too much money and tax them to the hilt.  

[Servonaut]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing. 

[USA4ME]

T. Boone Pickens says he thinks oil is going to go to $125 a barrel but then settle back to the high $80's to low $90's by the end of summer.  So much speculation out there, but we'll see.

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[Lord Undies]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing. 

I checked the local Bargain Post and sure nuff, the DUmmie is right.  I can buy a minimum wage person for a little over $6.00.  I ordered two. 

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing. 

I checked the local Bargain Post and sure nuff, the DUmmie is right.  I can buy a minimum wage person for a little over $6.00.  I ordered two. 

Our local Kroger was selling em 10 for $10 I purchased 5 but still got the deal

[Chris_]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing.  :-)

I checked the local Bargain Post and sure nuff, the DUmmie is right.  I can buy a minimum wage person for a little over $6.00.  I ordered two. 

Our local Kroger was selling em 10 for $10 :-) I purchased 5 but still got the deal :-)

You're one of those "coupon people" that makes us all wait in line, aren't you????

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing. 

I checked the local Bargain Post and sure nuff, the DUmmie is right.  I can buy a minimum wage person for a little over $6.00.  I ordered two. 

Our local Kroger was selling em 10 for $10 I purchased 5 but still got the deal

You're one of those "coupon people" that makes us all wait in line, aren't you????

Nah! Kroger plus shoppers card in store sales. Don't bother with the coupons

[jtyangel]

It's pretty bad when a gallon of gas costs more than a person on minimum wage 

I like the thread title. 

Where can I buy me one of them persons on minimum wage.

My truck needs a good washing. 

I checked the local Bargain Post and sure nuff, the DUmmie is right.  I can buy a minimum wage person for a little over $6.00.  I ordered two. 

Our local Kroger was selling em 10 for $10 I purchased 5 but still got the deal

You're one of those "coupon people" that makes us all wait in line, aren't you????

I have been...the key is to be organized and pay attention to what you get, but still, if something bleeps up, at that point that is the stores fault for not properly entering sku/coupon bar codes. I won't mention if they are not staffed properly too. I don't apologize for store errors or inefficiencies and normally those take the longest.

It's usually the people trying to get away with something and bringing coupons for crap they don't have who hold the lines up I've worked in one of these places...had a nice little homeschooling mom who constantly tried this crap. I'm sure there were lots of valuable lessons to her children about stealing and she'd bring them all(7) as a distraction.