{"id":668,"date":"2008-04-24T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2008-04-24T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T03:54:00","slug":"enough-is-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/enough-is-enough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Is Enough!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know we have had discussions on the gas prices before, but this is getting WAY OUT OF HAND!<\/strong>
\nI’m seeing $4.00 +<\/strong> Diesel and $3.40+<\/strong> gasoline down here in the south and in the Midwest. Now I know those of you in the great NW have been fighting these prices for some times and are probably saying “Welcome to our world Finally<\/em>” But lets not argue about this that way, lets just say that we are all feeling the same pain. The point of my post is that these prices are not in keeping with the wages that are paid in this part of the country. In 1990 the average wage paid in OK was $10.00 per hour<\/strong>. In 2008 the wage has only been raised to $12.00<\/strong> per Hr. In 1990 gas on OK was an average of $1.00.9<\/strong> per Gal. today it is $3.35.9<\/strong> per Gal. Now please excuse my math but that looks like to me an increase of 200.25%<\/strong> against a wage increase of 2%<\/strong>. Now all of you who in the past have discussed with me the economics of supply and demand and why the oil companies have to charge these prices, please take a step back and take all those formulas out of the discussion. Look at it from the average persons perspective, We can’t afford this much longer<\/strong>. What happens when you can’t afford to Buy Gas to go to work to buy gas? Now I know we need to cut our dependence on Foreign Oil, and our dependence on Fossil Fuels, I totally agree that in the long run that is the perfect course of action, but we need a short term solution to the immediate problem at hand before we look toward the prize of a Oil Free society.
\nNow I don’t know if it is OPEC, the Oil Companies, or the friends that they both have in Government but something needs to be done RIGHT NOW<\/strong> Our society cannot sustain this price gouging much longer before it collapses and the free enterprise system falls apart. Do the CEO’s of all the companies not realise that the more we spend on gas, the less we have to spend on other goods, that have to cost more because of fuel costs, Where does the cycle end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know we have had discussions on the gas prices before, but this is getting WAY OUT OF HAND! I’m seeing $4.00 + Diesel and $3.40+ gasoline down here in the south and in the Midwest. Now I know those of you in the great NW have been fighting these prices for some times and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,1,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}