can someone please explain to me wtf is up with fuel prices?

Posted by Life After Hysterectomy at 11/19/2008 8:59 PM
Categories: general,fuel,cost of living

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Fuel is now $1.759 per gallon here in Georgia.  Just a week ago I paid the above price of $2.089.  I'm not complaining; by NO MEANS,  do I dare complain.  I am wondering how low it will go.  I also wonder wtf is driving the price so low.  What has changed in the last year to drive regular gasoline to it's lowest price in years?  Better yet, why is diesel, a by-product of producing regular gasoline, still more than $1 more per gallon???  Grocery prices haven't dropped.  They won't drop until diesel drops.  Don't for one minute think that because it costs you less to fill your tank that it is costing trucking companies less to deliver groceries to wherever it is you shop.  Diesel has ALWAYS been lower than regular fuel for our cars.  I can only surmise that the price of fuel has been a great conspiracy and a damn good one at that.  We must have fuel to get to work, to get to wherever we need to go and we WILL pay whatever price is demanded.  We might reduce unnecessary trips and other expenses as we force our lifestyle to fit into this new economy.  Then again, maybe there isn't unnecessary travel we can cut from our daily lives.

What if?  What if we must run away on vacation to escape our real world.  What if?  What if the price of fuel doesn't drop and we don't buy anything for Christmas?  What if?  What if we have maxed out our credit cards (I don't have any; but, I'm sure some of you do) paying for fuel over the last year we can't afford Thanksgiving dinner?  Christmas dinner?  Let alone Christmas gifts?

I have never been one to believe in government conspiracies but I have to say the fuel prices have me wondering WAY too many what ifs in my future.  I can tell you my what ifs.  If fuel doubles in price tomorrow, being what it was most of the summer, I won't be buying anything.  The economy will fail.  Not because I can't buy anything - because none of us who work can afford to buy anything.  We have to work to pay the bills and feed our families.  There is no "high cost of gasoline" bailout in our future.  Likewise, no "you've worked your ass off and paid taxes to support the world so let me give you a monetary kick back" bailout.  There is no bailout for us, the suffering desperately from the economic failure.  We just get to pick up the pieces of our lives we have left and make the best of it.  All the while hoping fuel doesn't rise so high we can't afford to go to work to bail out all the companies who needed us at the helm to make sensible decisions to avoid this crises.  JMHO.  Nothing like the price of fuel to humble the working person.

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