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Originally Posted by CarolineWH
Here we have now hit $5 a gallon and what to do? It will still go higher...I read on the news that the eating establishments are off 25% because of the high price of gas...People cannot afford to go out to eat....We had a new SUV with only 9,000 miles on it...Traded it in on a luxury Hybrid...At the time I just about choked at the price but now realized what a smart move it was...Our payments are high but so goes life....We are getting an easy 27 mpg. vs. 16 on that new Explorer...We have had it 7 months and only have 4,000 miles on it....I don't even want to think of the thousands we lost in trading it off....Bad dream...
I doubt that the big SUV's will survive this...I see where some are necessary for large families but we are not done with the high gas prices. We used to have a RV back in 91. We went through all that fun and it was a blast...I can recall it had a 100 gallon tank and when we filled it up people would gasp...It shot a $100 bill...But those five years that we did that were some of the neatest times in our life...It was 34 ft. long and now I look back at it as our days of wine and roses. We were going to wait until we retired to do this and how happy I am that we did this then...
They say that gas is around $9 in England...What do people eat? Dirt? Yet our Petro manufacturer's are enjoying the highest profits they have ever had....TC, C
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Today when we filled up at the station and paid $3.96.9, I recalled that I had put down $5 on this post...I recall thinking as I previewed it, to change it to $4.00 per gallon...Unfortunately I changed a few other things in the post and forgot...Only looking at the sign today, did I realize my mistake...So with that in mind, we in the Midwest are paying $3.96.9.....I am sorry for the mistake....TC, C