Gas prices (caution this is a vent post)

So that leads me to ask..... .
Why is everyone so outraged about the price of fuel today.

Is it..... ...
(A) you are mad because some company is making millions at the cost of our citizens.
OR
(B) you really can not afford the cost and it has changed your life for the worse.

I really want to believe everyone will answer (B) because if your answer is (A) you need to wake up and smell the roses. This country was built on supply and demand. Very few things are ever sold based on cost unless the supply is great and your competition is undercutting your price. If a oil company can make gas for $1.00 a gallon why would he sell it to you for $1.50 if you are willing to pay $4.00 Because he likes you and wants to be a nice guy????? That just does not make good business sense.

So if your answer is (B) then why is it that I saw so many 4 door pickups with those big 5th wheel campers going down the road this afternoon.
From what I have seen over the past few months everyone is quick to complain about the price of gas but very few are willing to change their lifestyle because of it.

Now to try and explain what made me think about this.....
I had a guy pass me this afternoon. He was in a 4 door 1 ton pulling a 5th wheel camper about 35' long and had a boat hooked on the back of that. (I wonder if he knows how illegal that is) While he was running about the speed limit (70) or a little over it you could tell that 1 ton was giving all it could to pull that load at that speed. This would have gone unnoticed but it just happens this guy stopped at the very station I was delivering to for a fill up. By the time I got there he had fueled up and was inside giving the cashier a hard time complaining about how much it cost to fill up his rig. (Like she had anything to do with the price)
I just felt like slapping this guy upside his head. I mean if the price was hurting him that bad he had to complain to the cashier; why did he even leave his house????? Or at least slow down and try to conserve fuel consumption.

I know... I know
Some people are just idiots!!!!! !!

• Hobby farm

Now to explain how this rig is illegal..... ..
Federal law says you can pull 3 trailers on any federal highway. Most states limit it to 2 trailes because they can make it less than federal law they can not make it bigger.
Federal law also states that if more than 1 trailer is pulled at a time each trailer must be 28' or less.
Pulling a RV exempts you from needing a CDL to do this but it does NOT exempt you from the saftey side of the law.
While I did not measure it the 5th wheel RV looked to be about 35' long. Well over the 28' length law allowed with 2 trailers.

What you say is partially true. You do not need a CDL to pull or drive an RV trailer, and that is an ignorant law, but, when you "add" a second trailer, then you DO need a class A CDL with double/triple endorsement.

I live in Michigan and the state charges "road tax" on marine fuel.

The diesel is pink "off road" and is well over $5.00 per gallon, gas $4.80 i believe.

Last i looked they were not panting bridges or filling pot holes in the lakes !

How the state gets away with this and the people let them is beyond me. Michigan has the largest # of registered boats in the U.S.A and the state Goverment is F---ing the people and were letting them !!!!!

Damm stupid people..... ..

MAY GOD BLESS THE USA

and this: http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/default.htm

• About the Fed

Do you mean things like wheat, corn, vegetable oil?

The futures market serves the sellers and buyers alike.

There is a tight oil market for many reasons, but not enough to explain the current prices. The biggest reason prices are going up is that there are billions of dollars sitting in retirement accounts looking for a place to go. The mortgage backed money market soaked up billions of those dollars until the melt down. The managers are dumping that money in commodities because they think it will bring a better return and be safer than the money markets.

Once the prices start to slip, they will fall quickly as all the money managers race not to be last out of the market. Bubbles pop.