When's the breaking point?

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

It seems like every month the prices go up 10%. People who buy the stuff all the time don't notice it so much, but when you go a few months without buying something it's quite the shock. And it's everything it seems like. When I was outfitting my jon boat I couldn't believe how much some of this stuff has gone up. Moeller 6.6 gallon fuel tanks are a bargain at $75, yet I used to buy them 8-10 years ago for $25 for the same exact tank(has plastic gone up that much?). 5/16" EVINRUDE fuel line assemblies are now $60 for the cheapest one I could find, last one I bought 10 years ago was $25 full retail at a dealer.

Well, you can thank the EPA and greedy people for those prices. The plastic in the fuel tanks needs to be Ethanol fuel resistant, plus the EPA made it a law that all new fuel tanks have to have the positive vent valve installed for emissions reasons. As to the fuel hose, again, it's because of the Ethanol fuel. Plain old rubber hoses gum up, so the new hoses actually are 2 hoses, one within the other, to resist the Ethanol. The greedy people are the Politicians, Farmers (yes, FARMERS too), manufacturers, retailers, truckers, and anyone else that's in the supply side that sees a way to make a few extra bucks on something "new". (And don't get on my back about farmers having to grow the corn because of regulations. Every single farmer group, co-op, etc lobbied for the Ethanol cause they saw it as a way to sell more corn. The results have been catastrophic on our economy.

Oh, and if you guys think that the present prices are high, hang onto your jock straps, because you ain't seen nothing yet. The EPA, in conjunction with the a$$hole in charge of the White House (who makes tons of money and has already taken more vacations (that YOU paid for) than ANY other president in our history, just passed a law that mandates that all PRESENT (not new plants..present ones) fossil fuel (coal, gas and oil) fired electric generation facilities MUST reduce their emissions by 1/3.

I was listening to the liar in chiefs stooge Jay Carney last night on the daily white house press briefings and he stood there and bold faced lied to the American public and said that their studies showed that the reduction would actually lower costs. If you think that making the electric companies spend BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars will reduce costs, then I have this bridge in Brooklyn, NY that I'm trying to sell,... perhaps you'd be interested in it?

What will happen as a result is quite predictable: Greatly increased rates for electric power, decreased availability of the electric power so vital to our way of life, decreased reliability of the electric grid, a lower standard of living, decreased competitiveness of US products in world markets since most countries do not have such regulations, and Communist-style central control of the electric generating industry by a Washington-based bureaucracy with no understanding of the industry.

You are going to see costs SKYROCKET shortly guys. There were a bunch of ignorant people in this country that voted for this guy for a second term, (even though he had a dismal record at best during his first term), because they thought that he "meant well and was trying"... Pardon me, I think I'm going to go vomit......