Pffft..... 20 miles is like just around the corner for me.
My mother wanted to take my girls shopping for school at my closest Walmart. We were only halfway there when she started her, "wow, how far is it?" I pointed to a little building on the corner and told her, "They have a room upstairs. This is where we usually stop and spend the night..."
Then where do you live? In the middle of a desert or something?
On topic now: fuel prices here haven't gone down a lot. One liter costs €1,47, which isn't a lot less, compared to the €1,55 peak price a few weeks ago.
Don't mind him, PAracer. He probably had a tough day today. He's a referee for a 10 and under girls hockey league. It gets rough for him....
Yup, I think I'm right in the middle of some of that unending forest.
In the US, if it takes longer than 10 minutes to drive to a Walmart, you live out in the boonies. I live 40 miles from 4 separate Walmarts. Thus, a simple and quick run to the store is 40 miles. A 20 mile trip is like a trip just around the corner, as I said above. Practically walking distance....
Hmm, I have signatures turned off. Do I still have about the Pens and the Flyers in my sig? I'll have to check and change that.
Once the price is up it'll never come down, for a long time in S****horpe every garage was 109.9ppl, with the exception of one Shell garage who were 108.9ppl, then magically one night their price went up to match the rest of town.
It is just like everything else as far as money goes, the companies will find any excuse to push up the prices, but they'll never bring them back down and if they do it won't be at the same pace as they went up.
Lets take almost at random British Gas (and everyone else who sells power), their bills went up ~35% just in time for winter, now I'd be my bottom dollar they will stay up until spring/summer when they will go down at a push 20%.
It isn't the use that causes the high prices, demand has been its lowest in a long time, which is why the ppb is below the $100 mark. It is everyone out to make a little extra green *cough* at the expense of the consumer. Ever notice how even though everyone is supposed to be suffering from high oil prices all energy companies (that is gas, electric, fuel) have been posting record profits and not by small jumps either, we're talking doubled profits? Your empty wallet is why.
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Oh well.