Buying Advice US/$ at its highest level in twenty years

[jyoutz]

Didn't Texas try that?

It didn’t work out too well.

 

[Doughknob]

The difference is gasoline is like utility power and water. Those are regulated as they really effect peoples lives. Imagine if cost of water and electricity could skyrocket overnight. You can elect not to purchase lumber, but without gas you cant get to work to afford your rent or mortgage. Gas companies are gouging people right now.

I don't have to use gas to get to work?.......

 

[5030]

I don't have to use gas to get to work?.......

I don't work anymore unless it's here in the farm or in my shop. A tank of gas lasts me a month or more. Hell, I burn more gas in the lawnmowers than in the car.

 

[cathy liebchen]

energy cost inflation is great to slow climate change, so it feels good to pay more

 

[5030]

Cathy, how is your Kubota running? Haven't heard much from you lately...

 

[Hay Dude]

energy cost inflation is great to slow climate change, so it feels good to pay more

And you will pay a LOT more. Hope you like expensive food and clothes, too.
Congratulations, you just got way poorer.

 

[rScotty]

energy cost inflation is great to slow climate change, so it feels good to pay more

I can see the truth in that. I don't much like it, but I can't pretend I don't see it.

To give credit where it is due, part of our society - mostly our kids - have been forecasting energy-related problems for a couple of decades now. They've been passionate & vocal without generating much real interest from the rest of us. Mostly we didn't believe the forecasts, and when we did we only made half-hearted attempts at solving the problems.

Steeply rising prices has finally gotten our attention - not enough of our attention yet so that we will actually get down and change things, but we may be headed in that direction.

rScotty

 

[Bill Guenthner]

energy cost inflation is great to slow climate change, so it feels good to pay more

We’re still in the warming part of a cycle emerging from the last of a series of ice ages. We’re not going to “slow that down” by paying out the nose for fuel. I don’t understand how people can look up at the giant nuclear furnace in the sky and say “Yep, must be those pesky SUVs that are heating things up.”

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

We’re still in the warming part of a cycle emerging from the last of a series of ice ages. We’re not going to “slow that down” by paying out the nose for fuel. I don’t understand how people can look up at the giant nuclear furnace in the sky and say “Yep, must be those pesky SUVs that are heating things up.”

Nope, I'm not seeing it either. Climate change is the biggest government fabricated tax scam in the history of the world. It blows my mind all the time how really intelligent people fall for that crap.

 

[rScotty]

Nope, I'm not seeing it either. Climate change is the biggest government fabricated tax scam in the history of the world. It blows my mind all the time how really intelligent people fall for that crap.

Well, that's a good question asking, "how really intelligent people fall for that crap". I wondered that myself at one time.

But having lived in two worlds, I have to correct something: It's not intelligent vs not intelligent. Education is less like something inborn and more like something you either do or don't do - like buying a tractor, or becoming a pro at playing one particular sport.

I know this because I was raised in a an old fashioned area in Arkansas as a worker & handyman mechanic - and did that for 25 years as an adult - and didn't finish HS until my mid 40s. College came later - when we could afford it. So for a ong time I saw the world mostly in terms of rich people & especially the government trying to either take advantage or fool me or forcing me to do things I didn't want to do.

The difference in how I look at the world now 25 years after college is different. It was a slow change, much like the change that happens when we go from being a baby to an adult. Somehow, while we are growing up from being a child everything that used to be done for us becomes something that we now have to do for ourself. Education is like that.

Now I don't feel like the world is forcing or fooling me. I still know it will take advantage if it can. But the feeling I have toward the world is more like looking over my pasture and figuring out what changes it needs to make it work better.

So I got lucky & accidently got to see both sides. Hope this helps.
rScotty