Hoss Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Just realized how these two items go together. As in, today- March 8th- Gas is $3.51 at the pump. I have two main picking partners. One lives about 70 miles away, the other 100. Then There's a great jam that's another 80 miles away, once a month. With traffic, I give myself 2 hours each way to make a playdate at any of the three. You can see where this is going. I'm already cutting back on the playing with these folks, due to general conservation efforts of the Hoss Household. It seems clear that we'll be over $4 a gallon for gas before summer... and if we start pushing $5, I might be doing a lot of back porch picking by myself. (Also - how will $4 -5 gallon a gas help get us out of a recession...) Anyone else cutting back on playing out/music travel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NattyBumppo Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 For me, unnecessary travel of any kind is being scaled back. I really don't travel much for music. All the guys in our little jam group (3) live in the same town. One guy is on the block below me...about a 7-8 minute walk, and the other guy is a 5 minute drive away. Fuel prices touch every aspect of our lives. Petroleum products of some sort are used in almost everything, if not the actual product then usually somehow in the manufacturing process. Then of course you've got the cost to ship things once they're ready for market. Five dollar/gallon gas is a scary, VERY scary thought. Anyone remember stagflation? I have noticed just about every single car dealer in my area has a full lot of nice, bug SUVs. Nobody is buying em' now. Good thing I sold my F150 back when gas was $1.60 gallon! 90% of the time I was hauling around air in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Driving is largely inelastic in my household. I drive 10 or 12 miles to work and that city is also where we do most shopping. Our main vehicle is a '94 Explorer that isn't exactly a hybrid solar powered Willie BioDiesel go kart but the 4x4 convenience and the overall safety outweighs it. I jokingly call it a death trap because it is pretty much useless on a snow covered road unless it's IN 4 wheel drive but at least there's some metal to it, unlike the Protege it replaced. I don't go jam with anyone and to be honest if I had anyone to jam with and had the nerve to play around anyone I would gladly pay the pump price. Edit: My daughter's got the perfect car, an old '93 Tempo. 25 mpg on the highway and is rudely loaded with power options. Handles like a sports car and rides like a fat Buick. Ford finally got it RIGHT and then they quit making them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Well Hoss my piece of advice would be to throw yer flat top in flour sack, sling it over yer shoulder, an walk yer butt down here to to Texas. I'd be honored to set on the back porch and pick with ya till the cows come home. When they did, we would lasso one of 'em, and have us a Texas sized barbecue, and play some more. Heck we don't care 'bout the cost of gas down here 'cause we're sittin' on top of all this oil, not to mention all the new natural gas finds we got 'round here. We even got gas wells out the wazoo 'round that there big ol' Dallas Fort Worth International Airport thingy. In fact most everyone 'round here got one of them wells in their back yard. I'm even thinking 'bout lettin' that gas company put one of them there wells in my cement pond. I'm 'fraid that $5.00 a gallon gas is just a sign of the times an we all gotta get used to 'er. Ya know, a lotta folk think playin' by yer self is just masturbation. Maybe so, but at least yer still playin'. Ya'll have a real nice day now. Ya here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Just call me Onan the Guitararian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarstrummer Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Start hosting the pickin' dates at your house. Make em come to you. I heard on the news the other day that gas was over $106.00 a barrel. It was $28.00 when George W. took over. Not to turn this into a political discussion, but that's a heck of an increase. Somebody's getting rich and it's not the guitar pickers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 If I've done my calculations properly (1 US gallon = 3.846 litres) we are paying $4.27 a gallon for gas up here. Are you feeling any better yet? LOL And this is oil-rich Alberta. It's funny that you posted this Hoss because I was on Bandmix last night looking for jamming buddies and I was eliminating folks who live far south Calgary, simply because it's too expensive to drive there anymore. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 GG- Canadian $4.27 a gallon?? What's that in 'real' money? (Just Kidding!!) There is another side to burning up gas running up and down the highway that has nothing to do with the price and more to do about entitlement....But I promise not to go there. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWilson Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Instead of playing my guitars on my couch in my attic apartment, I now play them in a chair in my attic apartment! Livesoundguy, how much are horses? When I was at Ft. Sam Houston, I think everyone was riding one! GAS prices are high in all respects, especially SJ-200 GAS, which I still can't shake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarstrummer Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 If I've done my calculations properly (1 US gallon = 3.846 litres) we are paying $4.27 a gallon for gas up here. Are you feeling any better yet? LOL And this is oil-rich Alberta. It's funny that you posted this Hoss because I was on Bandmix last night looking for jamming buddies and I was eliminating folks who live far south Calgary' date=' simply because it's too expensive to drive there anymore. Sad.[/quote'] I thought you used dog sleds up north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 GG-Canadian $4.27 a gallon?? What's that in 'real' money? (Just Kidding!!) That one made me smile. These days I work for a financial news television network (like Bloomberg or CNBC,) and I believe that we are now at parody with the Canadion dollar. I grew up in Northwest Michicagan, so we used to get Canadian money all the time. I remember the store owners *****in' about how worthless it was to them. We've come a long way since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I thought you used dog sleds up north. I wish!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 That one made me smile. These days I work for a financial news television network (like Bloomberg or CNBC' date=') and I believe that we are now at parody with the Canadion dollar. I grew up in Northwest Michicagan, so we used to get Canadian money all the time. I remember the store owners *****in' about how worthless it was to them. We've come a long way since then.[/quote'] You're right! I remember they used to call it Monopoly money because that was all it was worth. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 GG-Canadian $4.27 a gallon?? What's that in 'real' money? (Just Kidding!!) :P That would be about $4.33 in your "real" money, Hoss my pal. :-) My how things have changed, as Mr. Zimmerman said. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Someone keeps tossing Canadian quarters in the coffee can at work. We used to crab about it, now we welcome it! Back in '92 a guy at work wanted a 65 soda out of the machine and all he had was a Loonie. I swapped him the 65 cents and super glued the Loonie onto a chrome belt buckle... I think it looks cool. Now I'm about ready to pry it off and cash it in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 $4.33!?!?! Thanks for the conversion, Shrim! I do like to keep things real, as they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NattyBumppo Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Edit: My daughter's got the perfect car' date=' an old '93 Tempo. 25 mpg on the highway and is rudely loaded with power options. Handles like a sports car and rides like a fat Buick. Ford finally got it RIGHT and then they quit making them.[/quote'] When my wife and I were first married we bought her a 95 (I think) Mercury Topaz (same as the Tempo). What a great car! Like you said, good fuel economy, comfy ride, reliable, you name it. My wifes boss called it a baby lincoln. Between that and my 95 Escort Wagon (all manual everything), we had two great, inexpensive, economical cars. Ford axed em' both. No wonder their stock is virtiually a penny stock now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDC Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Looks like some bright techo-type would come up with an affordable, workable, real time cyber jam software so we could put on a jam on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J45dale Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Reminds me of the old poem, ...water, water everwhere and not a drop to drink... now we are drowning in gas and can't afford to burn it ! Dale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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