Gas prices going up....

[randlemanboater]

As long as we keep using it, they are gonna keep raising the price.

[macojoe]

Yep what he said! Everyone complaining, but I have cars passing me on the highway like I am standing still, and thats at 70 mph !

Its going to go $5 but by next week I don't think so??

[Seaducer]

Yeah lets just stop using gas, and stop fishing, and stop boating, and stop driving, and stop hunting, and stop working...hey, wait this just might work out. We could even put sails on our V20s. HMMMM...

[parishht]

I'm going to buy a conversion kit to run my outboard on water,
then I have all the fuel I need right under the hull.

[Seaducer]

Now that's what I'm talkin about!

[bcmarinamanager]

Originally Posted by parishht

I'm going to buy a conversion kit to run my outboard on water,
then I have all the fuel I need right under the hull.

HE.ll yeah!!! I figure when it gets to the point where I'm working to pay for the gas to get to work, I'm just gonna give up, steal a nice big sailboat and become a pirate. I'll take what I need when I need it, just go up and down the oceans of the world wanting for nothing.

[charlie_the_tuna]

Originally Posted by randlemanboater

As long as we keep using it, they are gonna keep raising the price.

what would you suggest randle.


i have it easy. i'm 2 blocks from the train station and dont even burn 2 gallons a week commuting.
my wife is about 2.5 miles from work and doesnt work in the summer.
the beach is 100 yards from my house and thats where she and the kids spend most of their summer.
the boat is (will be) docked about 2 miles from my house.
my parents are about 2 miles from me.

AND. . . . . i'm still struggling financially.

we spend about $500. a week or more in groceries and these kids are getting hungrier every day.
not to mention these new york taxes.

but i hafta fish and boat and beach and cruise.

so there is no easy answer.

[Seaducer]

Yes there is. Did you not read parishht's input? lol

[Pipe_Dream]

As promised, I spent Saturday at the dock on maintenance and repairs, and listening to all the boats running up and down the ICW. I swear, one would never know that fuel prices were up from this time last year, judging by the number of boats out. I told my wife when I got home that I thought I was listening to the Indy 500 on radio!

Sunday and Monday were our days to spend on the water. Off we went, around the point of our little neighbor island and up into a nearby creek, away from the main channel and its compliment of cruisers, skiers, PWCs and assorted idiots. Dropped the hook, opened the cooler, went for a swim, and while the wife read I fished a bit. Blue skies, nice breeze. Not much biting, so I nodded off . . .
Oh, yeah. Time to pull the anchor and head in. Tied up, checked the log: 5 miles round-trip.

Monday we shoved off, wifey asks, "How's our fuel?" I replied, "Same as yesterday!" and off we went on the same 5-mile tour.

Life Beez Good.

[randlemanboater]

There is no easy answer at all.

But there are little things we all can do....last month I decided that I would drive the speed limit all the time....I know, I know, I'm already supposed to do that to set an example, but I have always drove 7-8 mph over the limit on the highway.

Well I have been getting 2 mpg better since I started doing this.....if everyone did this, then it would make a big difference in demand.

Also, I can't help but notice that 90 percent of cars on the road during "rush" hour have ONE person in them, if just two people would share a ride, it would be a huge cut in demand.

The big things (hydrogen fuel cell cars, electric plug in cars, ethanol made from SUGAR instead of corn) will have to come from big corporations and big government. Did you know that Brazil imports little or no oil because they use the most efficient crop to make ethanol for their fuel needs, but the government here is in the pockets of big business here so we keep trying to use one of the least efficient crops, corn.

CTT, I know the feeling, I spend a lot more on groceries than I'd like to think about. All I can tell you is that if we keep doing nothing different, it aint gonna change any way but for the worse.

Uh... but its no better down here in the south so yous guys stay up there in the north, ok.