primitives make excuses for keeping a gas-guzzler

[franksolich]

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yy4me  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:09 AM
Original message

She is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't!
   
Five or six years ago my (adult) daughter bought a used Ford SUV. She needed space for gear plus one large dog. No real hoopla about the death of the SUV and the price of gas at the time.

She has since been laid off, cannot find new job in her field because of the economy and other changes in the industry with which she is familiar and educated.

Still has the gas guzzling SUV, unemployment is running out, the value of the car is zilch and a fill up is $75.00 or more.

Catch 22. No $, no gas, no way to get to interview, no jobs in field anyway.

I would never have believed things are as bad as they are. I know several people who are unemployed and all tell me that same story. Cut-back, closing up, etc, you know the rest.

And the government is trying again to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks. Pretty petty to not make it automatic. They got us into this financial mess in the first place? Who made the decisions to send our jobs overseas, who allows the gas companies record profits and puts the screws to us at $5.00 a gallon.

This old Granny had had enough. 1/20/2009 CAN NOT COME SOON ENOUGH!--and yes, I'm yelling.

Now i'm off to work. Retirement sure is fun, 8:30 to 4:00 daily.

Thanks for listening....

So the granny primitive's looking forward to John McCain's inauguration?

ingac70  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:13 AM
Response to Original message

1. If I were in your daughters position...   

I'd ditch the SUV and find an early 80's Chevette that runs, or an old Yugo. I know for a fact the Yugos get around 40 mpg, and the Chevette gets close to it from what I understand.

A couple of years ago I bought a Yugo and almost enough parts for a whole other Yugo for 500 bucks.

Ah, yes, the Yugo, made in a socialist paradise of the workers and peasants.

Fumesucker  (693 posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:38 AM
Response to Reply #1

2. Q: Do you know why Yugos have rear window defrosters?
   
A: To keep your hands warm while you push them..

Seriously, if you don't have money for gas you don't have money for another car.

I'm truly amazed how many people fail to understand that.

RazBerryBeret  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:46 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. and when you buy that old of a car, you're gonna need $$$$ for repair bills, unless you're handy enough to take care of it yourself.

I dunno.  Didn't the people in the socialist paradise of workers and peasants with free medical care for all, on that island down there by Miami, learn how to do this, keeping old heaps alive forever?

MiniMe  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:53 AM
Response to Reply #2

4. Do you know why they named it a Yugo?
   
You go, it doesn't.

Seriously though, if she can't afford the $75 to fill the tank, she can't afford $500 for a car, nor the repair costs associated with an older car.

ingac70  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 08:02 AM
Response to Reply #4

7. I thought it was a great car...   

Yugos were nothing more than Fiats and were simple enough a monkey could do most of the work on them. You literally could just read the Haynes Manual and fix this vehicle, no mechanical knowledge needed.

ingac70  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-12-08 07:58 AM
Response to Reply #2

5. If you sell the gas guzzler...cheap you'll have plenty of cash to buy a old beater.

varelse  Donating Member  (645 posts) Thu Jun-12-08 08:00 AM
Response to Reply #1

6. NO, silly! what she needs to do is ditch her place of residence move into the SUV (it's rent free!) and THEN take out a couple of those handy credit cards we're always getting applications for in the mail, to buy an economy car to drive around to the job interviews. She can strap a crate to the roof of the SUV for the dog to live in while she's out interviewing - or just let it loose to forage in garbage cans.

Think outside the box a little and - viola - problems just melt away.

If franksolich has learned anything about the primitives on Skins's island, it's that "thinking outside the box" is a, uh, significant and unsurmountable challenge to the primitives.

[USA4ME]

From what I've read, the best thing about a Yugo is the multi-use capability of the vehicle.  For instance when you get into an accident, it also doubles as you coffin.

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[Happy Fun Ball]

Yugo: the world's first disposable car.

[Texacon]

Sounds like you STILL have to buy the Yugo's with 'Some Assembly Required'.

KC

[USA4ME]

frank, I've noticed over the past couple of days, and I'm confident you have also, the primitives speaking of oil and exploration in terms that are completely new in their scope.  I've seen numerous posts at the DUmp claiming that the US oil companies have always had the green light to drill both on land and offshore and but refused to do so because they wanted to create a shortage.  I've seen several of them claim that the US oil companies have always had the green light to build new gas refineries but have refused to do so.

Now besides themselves, I'm not sure who they believe they'll fool with these claims, or their claims that they knew this all along.  But even a few months ago if someone had told me the primitives were going to claim the US oil companies had the green light to drill and build but wouldn't, I'd have thought they were out of their head.  Just goes to show they're capable of convincing themselves of all sorts of things.

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[franksolich]

Just goes to show they're capable of convincing themselves of all sorts of things.

I haven't noticed that in particular, but lately, there have been a whole lot of bonfires on Skins's island specifically about drilling and refining, but I wasn't paying attention because the primitives know as much about drilling and refining oil as the primitives know about anything else, and so it would have been a waste on the depreciation of eyesight, to read them.

But now that you pointed it out, I'm going to watch.

[Lord Undies]

And the government is trying again to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks. Pretty petty to not make it automatic. They got us into this financial mess in the first place? Who made the decisions to send our jobs overseas, who allows the gas companies record profits and puts the screws to us at $5.00 a gallon.

Somehow I don't think YY4me would accept the true answers to these questions. 

[jukin]

I wonder if the daughter had a job before the democrats took control of the congress?

I bet she did.

[DixieBelle]

So on 1/20/09, all of the problems in America will go away? Wow! I can't wait!

[BlueStateSaint]

So on 1/20/09, all of the problems in America will go away? Wow! I can't wait!

Yes--it will be all wine and roses and lollipops and $1.00 gas and $100,000 starting level jobs for everyone! /DU

[Ptarmigan]

The Yugo was low quality. The gear shift falls out.

[MrsSmith]

They got us into this financial mess in the first place? Who made the decisions to send our jobs overseas, who allows the gas companies record profits and puts the screws to us at $5.00 a gallon.

I wonder, does Granny hate the oil companies for their dime a gallon more than she hates the congress for their 43 cents a gallon?  Who will she hate when the Dims add another 50 cents tax on each gallon to keep usage low??   

[Rebel]

My excuse for driving a Chevrolet Tahoe Z-71 with 4WD and a 5.3 liter engine?

Because I ****ing WANT to drive a Chevrolet Tahoe Z-71 with 4WD and a 5.3 liter engine.


......but I also have my eye on a $1075 scooter that gets 60 MPG and does 55. 

[USA4ME]

Just goes to show they're capable of convincing themselves of all sorts of things.

I haven't noticed that in particular, but lately, there have been a whole lot of bonfires on Skins's island specifically about drilling and refining, but I wasn't paying attention because the primitives know as much about drilling and refining oil as the primitives know about anything else, and so it would have been a waste on the depreciation of eyesight, to read them.

But now that you pointed it out, I'm going to watch.

Keep a look out for this, too.

Just a few short months ago, the words coming from their lips was "Peak Oil" and how a worldwide shortage was just months away and would drive up prices.  But today, how many of them over there are talking about there being plenty of supply, an overabundance of supply for years and years to come, in order to meet world demand?

So which is it DUmmies?  Do we have an over-abundance of supply and it's the evil oil companies driving up the prices artifically?  Or do we have Peak Oil and there's barely a drop left?  Do try and make up what little minds you might actually possess.

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[LC EFA]

My excuse for driving a Chevrolet Tahoe Z-71 with 4WD and a 5.3 liter engine?

Because I ****ing WANT to drive a Chevrolet Tahoe Z-71 with 4WD and a 5.3 liter engine.

I simplify this to "Because I CAN !"

[formerlurker]

I notice she doesn't mention what field it is her ADULT daughter works in.