Re: Halifax Gasoline Consumers Association

[nopricer...@netscape.net]

Yes this is what we want to tell Hamm who is in
charge of this province . Wake up Nova Scotia we do not want
lobbies
like the Retail Gasoline Dealers Association of Nova Scotia or the
oil
companies running the province . We all lose under Bill 79 Its time
we
boycott the stations whose owner support gasoline price regulation
or
else the consumer will lose control the marketplace not just at the
gas pumps .Keep Nova Scotia a free market Boycott independent
gasoline
stations . Because the next thing you know supermarkets will be
regulated"

[april...@gmail.com]

This may be slightly off topic.... but isn't the reason gas prices are
so high a lot to do with the simple definition of economics? Demand is
unlimited, supply of gas is limited, unless our demand goes down,
prices never will.... as demand goes up prices will continue to rise...
and rise and rise..... and rise :)

I've almost given up complaining... I "need" to drive so I "need" the
gas... if I quit driving along with a few million others, gas prices
would drop at an amazingly fast rate...... but are you willing to stop
driving? No? Didn't think... so quit complaining!

[april...@gmail.com]

:) thanks for the correction lol

[Hamm...@gmail.com]

>
> I've almost given up complaining... I "need" to drive so I "need" the
> gas... if I quit driving along with a few million others, gas prices
> would drop at an amazingly fast rate...... but are you willing to stop
> driving? No? Didn't think... so quit complaining!

So what else do you want people to do?
To walk 80kms to go to work?
To buy/rent appartments on top of their work office?
To take their groceries on the back of their bike?
To take the pet to the vet in the bus?

To simply stay home and the bills will automatically disapear?
Why this obsession about asking for people to drive less their
vehicles?
Do you really think that people drive vehicles because they want to?
I would like to be able to take the bus to go to work.
But when the bus takes one hour while driving there takes 15minutes and
having to stay up all the way because of limited seats in the bus,
people have better things to do with their lives.

Why isn't governement funneling some of the gas taxes into research for
alternative energy?
Why aren't the car manufacturers researching alternative energy?

Where are the hybrids? Where are the efficient cars?
Those are the questions everybody should ask. Not kick in the butt
those that drive their car.

[Bob]

Hamm...@gmail.com wrote:
>>I've almost given up complaining... I "need" to drive so I "need" the
>>gas... if I quit driving along with a few million others, gas prices
>>would drop at an amazingly fast rate...... but are you willing to stop
>>driving? No? Didn't think... so quit complaining!
> >
> So what else do you want people to do?
> To walk 80kms to go to work?
> To buy/rent appartments on top of their work office?
> To take their groceries on the back of their bike?
> To take the pet to the vet in the bus?
>

If you live 80 km from your work, gas is not your major car
expense. At 8 l/100 km, gas costs $08.5 per km. The other
fixed and variable costs are approximately $0.30 per km. At
that rate you could practically rent a second apartment or
buy a little condo. When you calculate total car ownership
costs and the money you need to earn to have that much cash
available, other options are more realistic. It is only
because most people don't count their "real" car costs; a
simple estimate puts it in the range of $0.35 to $0.50 per
km. If you drive 15,000 km per year, that is about $6000 per
year and if you are in a 30% tax bracket, the first $8575
you earn goes to pay for the car.
Here is an interesting site - the couple is travelling
around the world using only their muscles - bike, rowing,
walking. Lots can be done without a car.
www.expeditionplanetearth.com

Bob