Hossfly

Not for gloom and doom, however the current situation and predictions about near-future auto-fuel price increases are rather alarming to me. First it was $5 per gallon by mid-2012. Now it's being said that this price may be by this 2011 summer.

Personally, I was planning some travel and flying this summer to include the Nationals at AMA-Muncie, even to the big Brodak Control-Line event in Carmichaels, PA. Now I am reconsidering as just maybe the expense will not fit into my already busting-the-seams budget. [sm=confused.gif]

Does anyone else think the fuel price increases already being levied upon the common people, with possibly some 65% additional increases, to have any effect upon their aeromodeling season plans? Do you think this will have consequences for the membership numbers of the AMA? I certainly do. [sm=48_48.gif]

STUKA BARRY

Since you are already talking about going to the NATS this summer, start right now having an automatic bank withdrawl to a seperate savings account. Start out small, say $5.00 a week. Come March, if you did'nt miss $5.00, increase it to $10.00 a week. By the time the NATS are upon you, you will have more than enough cash set aside for gas for the trip. So, instead of complaining about something you have no control over, like gas prices, do something constructive about it. By the way, I'll see you at the NATS....

BillyGoat

Absolutely will have an effect on my season. I don't have any plans of attending events however I have a decent commute to the flying field. $5.00 a gallon will certainly put a crimp on getting some flying in.

Strat2003

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It's 300 miles from my house to Muncie. My car gets 28 MPG. A round trip there, plus 50 miles of back and forth to the motel and dinner would use about 23.25 galons of gas. At $3.00 per gallon that's $69.75. At $5.00 it's $116.25, an increase of $46.50. I won't like it but my budget's not that tight.
Same for practice flying at my home field. It'll cost me another $3.00 per trip, again not enough to keep me home.

rcairflr

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How can this be? I thought the democrats told us it was all George Bush's fault for high gas prices

Strat2003

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Something I've noticed is that when people are upset about the cost of gasoline they tend to say "It cost me $116 to go to Muncie and back!" as if it cost nothing before.

rcairflr

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True, but the rising cost of gasoline is a very big problem in this country and will have much larger impact on the economy and our way of life than just getting to the flying field.
If gasoline gets to $5 a gallon by 2012, what will it be by 2015 or 2020? All we as a country seem to do about it is send more and more US dollars to OPEC and go farther and
farther in debt. I wonder how long this policy is going to work for us.

Hossfly

As far as I am concerned it has never worked "....FOR us." and it darn well ain't working now! [:@]

outdoorhunting

I know it's gonna get political but, I don't remember George bowing to the King of Saudia Arabia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RVator

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Or kissing Chavez's butt.

JPMacG

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So the Republicans win an election and immediately the cost of gasoline goes back up. I guess the oil companies feel they now have a friend in Washington.

ira d

I can remember two years ago the price of gas was over four bucks a gal in my neck of the woods and I still went to the field on most saturdays. There are three
fields within ten or eleven miles of me. The big thing I recall about that year was how many people that was at the side of the road out of gas and some of them
were driving the larger and newer vehicles and most carried gas cans as if they expected to run out of gas.

flatspinjim

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I compete in a lot of IMAC contests. Usually go to 2 or 3 out of state contests. It'll sure put a damper on those for me. When you drive 2000 miles round trip it makes a huge difference.

rcairflr

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By your statement, I assume you think I vote for Republicans. Well you are wrong, I am a conservative and neither party fits that description anymore. I haven't voted for either party in 6 years. There are other political parties to vote for and as long as the Repubublicans or Democrats are in control of Washington, nothing will change.

Do you honestly believe either party has anything to do with the price of gas? If any of us went to work everyday and blamed someone else why we weren't doing our jobs (like both political parties do), we would
have been fired long ago. Yet that is what the politicians do everyday and the American people fall for their BS..

BTW, if you would have been watching, you would have seen that the price of gasoline has been on the rise all year. Not just since early November.

We have enough discovered natural gas in this country to supply fuel for automobiles for at least 100 years, yet we do nothing to build infrastructure to do this. Instead we keep buying petroleum from OPEC and sending the American dollars and jobs to them.

outdoorhunting

You got that right!!! I know a guy (sister-in-laws brother-in law),he is from Afganistan, or one of the stans over there. He's been here for 4 yrs working for cash under the table, going to ALL the food shelters getting free stuff & brags about it. Well, he's leaving this week for one of the "Stans" to be a fire chief with ALL expenses paid, flight, meals, & apartment allowance @ the saltry sum of- are you ready- tax free of course, I didn't believe it, but it's true-$100,000.00 a year. It seems that's what he did before coming to the states, the salary then was less than $10,00.00 a yr. WE ARE PAYING FOR THAT !!!!!!!!!! That's what Haleburton & those other outfits do !!! We ALL wonder why the war costs as much as it does, we don't know the half of it!!!!!!!!!!

Red B.

In many parts of Europe, where there is a substantial tax on gasoline you have to pay approx. 7.5 $/gallon.
Most people have not altered their driving habits much, but fuel economy has become a main selling point for new cars.

GerKonig

No kidding! For 2009 income taxes Exxon paid less than me! Thanks to good Bush tax breaks. Did they create thousands of jobs with the billions saved? Did they build new refineries? Of course not. It is a business that does not invest. Besides, the cartel sets the prices. Something that is illegal in any other venue, is OK for them. They pick a price, and set the supply accordingly...

They are the genuine WWR (World Wide Robbers). They have deep pockets, and all Republicans are in them.

Gerry

GerKonig

As you know there are more people fighting the war for us than our "troops". Las year the Colombian mercenaries working in Iraq were complaining because their pay was less than the pay of the American mercenaries. They were driving oil rigs for $8000 per week. Apparently other people were paid more! Just google "secret clearance jobs" and you will see that DC is sorrounded by companies that are "helping" us fight this war. Of course for a hefty price, but those are no bid contracts (ask Halliburton). On the other hand, they employ a lot of retired"troops" that are getting rich...

Gerry

Desertlakesflying

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That was said before the Republicans won, BECAUSE OBAMA is the one with the moratorium in the gulf. Sorry to burst your little left wing Utopian bubble.

Cheers

We need to stop this mamby pamby no drilling anywhere and no refineries built anywhere b.s and the gas prices will plummet.

I'm so sick of people blaming Republicans for failed Democrat policies when it comes to oil.

No one went to war for oil, because we haven't seen one drop. We went to war because the DEMOCRATS said Saddam was a threat with WMD's.

No wonder this country is losing it's freedom and becoming so Socialist. Too many we went to war for oil/blame the Republicans people out there who choose not to educate themselves.

If you all think like that, I got a private island with a house hangars and a private runway I'll sell ya cheap.

Not to mention the DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN IN CONTROL SINCE 2006 REMEMBER, or does that not help your agenda?

Want gas prices to go down? Put more on the market. Find me ONE Democrat that is for more oil? You can't. Obama just killed supply personally. Blame him!

MinnFlyer

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Ok, this has gotten too political.

I have removed the political posts

I will leave the thread open as long as the politics are kept out of it.

pmerritt

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If $46.00 is going to keep you from going, sell me all the planes you have that fly. I'll give you $46.00 a piece for them and you can go!

Gremlin Castle

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While I am no fan of high dollar gasoline, the increase in cost is a small percentage compared to the overall costs for food and lodging that I spend each year traveling the fly in circuit here in the Southwest.
What I expect to see is a decline in registration at some of the mid level events as some people make decisions abour where they really want to fly in this coming season.
Overall I am glad that the high prices and long waiting lines aren't mentioned in the same breath.

I-fly-any-and-all

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makes me wonder who's raising the cost, the Arabs or our government?

outdoorhunting

Spoil sport !!

hairy46

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With gas going up and food, and everything else that has or will go up, We all know when gas goes up so does everything else, and never goes down again! The only events that I make this year will be War-birds over the Rockies and a few local events, This is getting way out of hand! My work went from a heck of allot hours 5 days a week to not allot of hours part time. nothing this week so far, Seem to always be in the red anymore! Yes for sure gas going up will keep me away from doing most anything that involves driving anywhere!