| Club Man |
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Posted: May-09-2008 08:46AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrbell Quote: Originally Posted by bollox Yes Blame the Oil twats and their windfall profits/ price gouging. I have stopped complaining about prices here because of the gas prices in UK and in japan as some one previously stated. |
Yeah, I hope gas prices continue to rise. This country NEEDS $5/gal gas to get some changes made.
The gas tax holiday a couple of the presidential candidates have been bouncing around is nearly the dumbest idea I've heard from them. It actually helped me make up mind my on who I will be voting for... |
Absolutely! There will be no benefit to the average Joe for a couple month's suspension of the fed tax. In fact, it may have the exact opposite effect since supplies of refined gas are already restricted by refinery capacity. Lowering taxes (thereby price) may increase demand on a limited supply and actually force gas prices higher, faster...Even if there were any benefit it may be $20-$30, I heard. WOW!  These taxes go into a fund for road & infrastructure improvement. We have a country where bridges are falling & unsafe. Some of you may even have seen a pothole, or two. Roads are overcrowded everywhere. Sure doesn't make any sense to reduce this funding to pander to voters. Many "liberals" have been right in that the best thing would be to increase taxes/prices to dampen demand. {use the tax increase to fund nuclear, solar, wind projects) Stop giving incentives to gas guzzlers and give tax credits for the purchase of any car that gets 32+mpg (City). Only when it hurts financially will John Q change his habits.
Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better
idiot....
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| pmustang |
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Posted: May-09-2008 08:30AM
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I was not comparing UK to USA prices as folks would just say to move back home, haha!! UK prices on everything dwarf USA prices, I was just commenting on the huge price changes in a very short period of time, of course everything goes up over the long run, its called inflation, This is more like Hyper inflation, Just had a small lunch and it was 20 bucks, I should have made it 25 and had a whiskey,
cheers folks, just making an observation.
Hey, if things are rising so fast why do folks still want a mini for 5k, haha!!!
take care. Peter No more cars left, Westpaminis is now just a memory, Good luck to all those hard working dealers left out there, We can tell you its not easy. We have fully enjoyed meeting all the fine folks we have in the business.
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| kra |
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Posted: May-09-2008 08:22AM
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Agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Mini. Prices on every single thing but petrol, simply swap the $ symbol for a £. Yet if you theorise the same must be true for UK salaries, you'd be sorely mistaken. If I went in to a job interview in the UK and said "OK, I earn $100k in the US. So I'll need you to pay me £100k, so I can maintain the same lifestyle here", well they'd just laugh me out of the place. Fact of the matter is, I'd probably be extremely lucky to get the equivalent of the current exchange rates worth, £50k, and would probably be looking at a realastic salary in the high £30k range. I just don't know how people in the UK can afford to live, and yet you see them out eating in restaurants, or at the movies, or down the pub, ALL the time.
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| mrbell |
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Posted: May-09-2008 07:50AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by bollox Yes Blame the Oil twats and their windfall profits/ price gouging. I have stopped complaining about prices here because of the gas prices in UK and in japan as some one previously stated. |
Yeah, I hope gas prices continue to rise. This country NEEDS $5/gal gas to get some changes made.
The gas tax holiday a couple of the presidential candidates have been bouncing around is nearly the dumbest idea I've heard from them. It actually helped me make up mind my on who I will be voting for...
DO NOT TOUCH MY HORNS OF DOOM!
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Posted: May-09-2008 07:10AM
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Yes Blame the Oil twats and their windfall profits/ price gouging. I have stopped complaining about prices here because of the gas prices in UK and in japan as some one previously stated. "22's? Shee, i be creepin on 10's gangsta. Bentley? real ballas drive minis" (real life first response of my best friend seeing my mini)
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Posted: May-09-2008 06:54AM
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£1.10+ a litre ($8.36+ US gallon) for normal petrol, £1.20+ a litre for diesel or good unleaded petrol ($9.12+ US gallon) makes Japan look cheap. Having said that, we were in Paris last weekend and the French are paying 1.64 Euros a litre or $2.53 !!
Blame Big Oil and the twats who run the financial institutions... Metric is for people who can't do fractions.
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Posted: May-09-2008 06:39AM
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Spot on Pete. This weekend the Missus and I are going to sit down and have a tete a tete on this very issue and hwo to realign our family budget. Between the tolls and gas it seems that I am just pissing money away. ------------------
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"I invoke emotions in others that they themselves cannot explain"
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Posted: May-09-2008 06:17AM
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"I think it's hard to blame anything on the government." Let me preach on it. Knox county is talking job cutbacks as well as schoolboard cuts but they buy 50K SUVs to ride their arses around in like we buy bread. Loaded with 4WD, TVs , and all the crap you can get.  Want a mini? Visit WWW.WESTPAMINIS.COM Out of business? Maybe not. New plans in action.
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Posted: May-09-2008 05:52AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by kansas_parker@msn.co I think it's hard to blame anything on the government. |
Nothing is so bad that you can't make it worse by doing something rash or going berserk.
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Posted: May-09-2008 05:28AM
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I think it's hard to blame anything on the government. If people don't stand up for what they believe in, then they have no right to complain when things change. I remember talking with a co-worker today who said he doesn't care who's elected president, so long as gas prices drop so he can afford to fill a full size pickup. We're air traffic controllers, so a Silverado is not a necessity. It's that kind of selfishness, senslessness and apathy that has put our country in the state it's in. But on to the cost of living, it's still a lot lower than many countries. Gas and rent here in Japan are astronomical. Gas is about 160 yen per LITER! That's more than $6 a gallon. Fortunately, gas prices on base match the national average.
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Posted: May-09-2008 05:14AM
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It is nuts. But on the flip side, as depressing as this country has become, I have a feeling that this economic situation will spark a sea change in that families could become closer, people will no longer have the desire to "need" the latest expensive technology, and we'll become overall more sensible and thrifty (until the next recession). SUVs are going the way of the dinosaur and that's a welcome positive sign; you can't give those things away now.  What's alarming is the rapidity of how expensive things are becoming. A couple months ago oil broke $100/barrel, today it's already at $126. And of course oil is passed on to the pricing of transported goods. It's time to be more self-reliant and stop being the bloated, gluttonous society we've become. It's not only government's fault, but the way we've evolved to this point. Mr Bean's uncle was a machinist.
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Posted: May-09-2008 05:04AM
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You think the US prices are nuts? Is 3.60 GBP more than you pay for an appetiser over there? Something easier to compare, is the cost of BK or McD. What is the cost of a Whopper over there? Bet the numbers are very similar, only the $$ sign is changed to GBP. I love getting fish and chips when I go over, and I load up on the stuff while I am there. Last time I was there, the prices are nearly $10 for an order of fish and chips. Capt D's is half that. Yes, not even close to the same taste, but is all that I can find most of the time on this side of the pond.
"Retired: No Job, No Money, No Wife! Will
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| 66Cooper'S |
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Posted: May-09-2008 04:28AM
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and if you would have been into Mini's for those 35 years you would have noticed prices on both sides of the pond go up. But remember Pete you can still get a nickel candy bar. It just cost seventy-nine cents today.
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| pmustang |
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Posted: May-09-2008 03:56AM
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As an infrequent visitot to the states who had lived here for 35 years before moving to the UK I think I am fairly capable at making a judgement on prices here in the states. Every time I have returned after leaving in January 2004 I have seen a noticable rise in prices across the board. This time, (last visit approx summer 2007) I am floored, I am blown away at the prive of everything from foodstuffs I am buying to bring back to the UK, petrol, food in restaurants and small hardware items. I feel for you folks and am worried about how it can continue and allow folks to live normal lives. I cannot imagine that salaries are even halfway keeping up with the inflation. When we went to TGI firdays yesterday and the pot sticker appitizer was $7.19, I almost fainted.
Just thought I would comment and ensure those folks that think prices are nuts but have went up gradually so you are not sure that they are in fact nuts!
Peter No more cars left, Westpaminis is now just a memory, Good luck to all those hard working dealers left out there, We can tell you its not easy. We have fully enjoyed meeting all the fine folks we have in the business.
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