I quit! I refuse to drive my car FU BUSH!!!
By avonrep1
@avonrep1 (1862)
United States
May 3, 2007 1:47pm CST
OKay this is a RANT! I am letting the world know and hopefully other will agree with me and make a major change in their lives too. I quit, I refuse to drive my car. I will either walk from now on, or ride a bike. Gas has risen to $3.20 a gallon. I can get on the bus and ride it all day for that. I am tired of our government letting oil and gas companies, price fix the prices for gas.
That is what is happening people. The oil companies posted record profits last year of $38 BILLION. They profited that much, and are still raising prices. I am done. FU Bush, our leaders here in the USA FU too. Shame on the people who make and enforce our laws. FU to all that keep price of gas up.
I will not be driving much anymore. I have even found a way to go to the grocery without my car. I have one of those tows for toddlers, though I don't need it no more for the kids, but it will make a perfect grocery getter.
The only way I figure I can make any change is to do something about it and refuse to buy any gas and ask anyone who is tired of this also, to do something about it also, by not buying or by cutting your useage in half. If you have a ways to drive to work, find someone to share a ride with, take a bus if you can, even better ride a bike. It takes no gas and is a great way to exercise and get around.
I ask you mylot friends join me in giving the US government a big FU for not stepping in and doing something about these high gas prices. Join me in giving the oil companies even a bigger FU for price fixing. Join me in telling them enough is enough.
Come on now I know you in CA must really be hating it. You all are around $4.00 or something like that a gallon. People around the world not just in the US needs to say enough is enough.
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5 responses
@listen2me (511)
• United States
3 May 07
yes im in louisiana and its now 2.83 it seems to be going up everyday lol. i expecting it to hit the 3.00 mark anytime now. is getting dikrickulous!
@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
3 May 07
I live in Indiana, and we have a refinery on the north side of the town I live in. You would think because we are so close, we'd get it a little cheaper, since it don't have to travel so far to the pump, but nooo. I won't be buying gas at all, unless I have to go out of town to my child's health specialist. Other than that I will be biking it or walking it.
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@tinamwhite (3252)
• United States
4 May 07
From where I live it would take me 1/2 the day to get to town if I did not drive BUT I have already cut out alot of the extra "running" I used to do....I plan my trips to town and get several errands accomplished during one time.
I read in the newspaper that the price of corn is going way up based on the manufacturing of ethenol...
It is ridiculous when a gallon of gas costs as much or more than a gallon of milk!!
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@elisa812 (3026)
• United States
24 May 07
Yeah, I've quit driving around whenever I can possibly avoid it. Any time I need something, I think of the closest place I can find it, and then I just walk there. It's been great cause I haven't had to fill up my car in a few weeks that way, and I've dropped a few pounds. I've just decided that I will do whatever I have to do to avoid buying gas until the prices go down because this is just WAY too ridiculous!! I hope more people will start doing the same.
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@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
24 May 07
Update since I started this thread gas where I live has jumped to $3.59 a gallon. Ouch!! I am lucky because of the location to my home to shopping, banks, restraunts, and schools (though I homeschool my kids.) Wal-Mart opened a new store just blocks from my house. Plus we are on the bus route. The bus comes in front of my house twice an hour. With-in a few blocks there are two other routes that run twice an hour. So If I got to go across town or downtown I can get there for just .60 (Also lucky to live in a town that has some of the cheapest public transit in the US. I prefer to bike there also most of the time. I also am starting to see the benefits of losing a little bit of weight in the process. Which in turn makes me more motivated to do other things.
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@abroji (3247)
• India
15 Jun 07
I only happened to see this discussion now. avonrep1 how goes your biking?
Here in India there is a price regulatory authority for fixing prices of petrolium products and gas. Gas is not popular in vehicles except in certain cities. Now the authority is planning to hike the prices because of the enormous preassure applied upon them by the oil companies. They may increase prices at any time.
How are the prices in your place now? Has it come a little down?
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@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
15 Jun 07
Since writing this, gas price has gone back down to (as of yesterday) $3.04 a gallon, which is good, because I injured myself somehow and this last week my legs have been numb. I had to go to the doctor three times this week and haven't been able to ride my bike, but today the numbness is gone the meds, the doctor gave me worked. So I am hoping to be back on my bike this afternoon. I think the petrolium world is price fixing. Just like the vitiam companies were doing back in the 80's and early 90's.
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@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
16 Jun 07
abroji I don't know how much biking I am allowed to do right now. Yesterday I went back to the doctor to get the results on my back and it is not good. I have degerate disk desease abd a protrusion on my spine. The protrusion in unlike normal ones it is a rare type, that is putting pressure on the nerves that controls my legs. My legs have been numb (that falling asleep feeling you get in your feet or hands) I was told to be real careful, another injury could leave me paralized. He says it needs surgrey, but we can try to fix it with other treatment first, there is a small chance that treatment on it can work.
I hope it does.
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@nameerf (99)
• United States
24 May 07
The prices of gas are atrocious worldwide. I spent the equivalent to $100 filling up the tank of my car here in the UK. In the US, I was up to $50 per tank of gas. It's just ridiculous everywhere. I walk quite a bit here and plan to continue to walk when I get back to the US.
