RollingsFarms
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- Joined
- Mar 26, 2007
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- Location
- South Carolina
- Tractor
- Few John Deere's and one Ford 3600 diesel.
I've about HAD IT with gas prices and high vehicle taxes in my area!
Had it I tell you! So much so that I'm honestly considering getting rid of my truck and just going to buy some beater pickup and call it a day. so what if it won't pull my trailer, cost too much to do so with the truck that WILL pull it now! When I bought my truck last summer I wanna say gas was around $2.40ish range. This lasted through December. It wasn't ideal but it wasn't absolutely back breaking to pay for gas either like it is now. I could at least live with it, it wasn't cutting into other things. Well, now it is and I'll have none of it. My truck doesn't get terrible gas mileage for putting out 403hp/417 ft tq...get's an average of 17. That's better then my 2004 Z71 got! What gets old, and I mean old FAST is dumping in $100-$120 A WEEK into this thing JUST to get around, to do work, etc. No joy riding or anything like that.
I tell you now that if Ford still made the Ranger I'd be at the closest dealership right now signing the papers to one with a 4cyl and a manual transmission. The worst part of it is my truck is preferred to have 93 octane. thats $.17 higher then diesel around here! I knew the truck required 93 but was told it was not mandatory, you could still run on anything 87 octane or above. well the truck gets about 1mpg less with 87 or 89 but I can live with that. it's not the mpg that's killing me it's paying almost $4 a gallon, sometimes MORE, THAT'S what's breaking this farmers back!
I do electrical work as my main job and I honestly have had to adjust prices to cover my gas and I've had to keep going up, up, up and my customers are starting to know this. That's not even mentioning what the price of materials has skyrocketed to these days...all because of, you guessed it, gas prices. this is getting flat out rediculous!
Now for the taxes that also has me chapped beyond belief. I have a farm tag on my truck, it's supposed to save you some in taxes. guess how much it's saved me? not one red cent. not one! they've eliminated tax relief's for farm tag's in my county. they've also changed how they tax your vehicle and they go by the sticker price of your car or truck now instead of how they used to do it which was what you PAID for the vehicle. So say you are driving a $48,000 truck like me yet you got it for $27,500 when all was said and done. they tax you on the $48,000 NOT what you ended up paying for the truck. My 1/2 truck has higher taxes then some 3/4 and 1 ton trucks on the road. crazy or what??:confused2: My taxes on my truck were $800. $800!!!! I went up their to question it (waste of time) and made them aware that I wasn't driving a one ton dually with a "weighted truck" tag. they looked at me as if I was from another planet and that's when they told me they'd changed how they tax vehicles. I left madder then when I went in.
This is just getting out of hand in this country.
Had it I tell you! So much so that I'm honestly considering getting rid of my truck and just going to buy some beater pickup and call it a day. so what if it won't pull my trailer, cost too much to do so with the truck that WILL pull it now! When I bought my truck last summer I wanna say gas was around $2.40ish range. This lasted through December. It wasn't ideal but it wasn't absolutely back breaking to pay for gas either like it is now. I could at least live with it, it wasn't cutting into other things. Well, now it is and I'll have none of it. My truck doesn't get terrible gas mileage for putting out 403hp/417 ft tq...get's an average of 17. That's better then my 2004 Z71 got! What gets old, and I mean old FAST is dumping in $100-$120 A WEEK into this thing JUST to get around, to do work, etc. No joy riding or anything like that.I tell you now that if Ford still made the Ranger I'd be at the closest dealership right now signing the papers to one with a 4cyl and a manual transmission. The worst part of it is my truck is preferred to have 93 octane. thats $.17 higher then diesel around here! I knew the truck required 93 but was told it was not mandatory, you could still run on anything 87 octane or above. well the truck gets about 1mpg less with 87 or 89 but I can live with that. it's not the mpg that's killing me it's paying almost $4 a gallon, sometimes MORE, THAT'S what's breaking this farmers back!
I do electrical work as my main job and I honestly have had to adjust prices to cover my gas and I've had to keep going up, up, up and my customers are starting to know this. That's not even mentioning what the price of materials has skyrocketed to these days...all because of, you guessed it, gas prices. this is getting flat out rediculous!
Now for the taxes that also has me chapped beyond belief. I have a farm tag on my truck, it's supposed to save you some in taxes. guess how much it's saved me? not one red cent. not one! they've eliminated tax relief's for farm tag's in my county.
they've also changed how they tax your vehicle and they go by the sticker price of your car or truck now instead of how they used to do it which was what you PAID for the vehicle. So say you are driving a $48,000 truck like me yet you got it for $27,500 when all was said and done. they tax you on the $48,000 NOT what you ended up paying for the truck. My 1/2 truck has higher taxes then some 3/4 and 1 ton trucks on the road. crazy or what??:confused2: My taxes on my truck were $800. $800!!!! I went up their to question it (waste of time) and made them aware that I wasn't driving a one ton dually with a "weighted truck" tag. they looked at me as if I was from another planet and that's when they told me they'd changed how they tax vehicles. I left madder then when I went in. This is just getting out of hand in this country.
