CNN: People are Pawning Their Rims to Pay for Gas

[Coexist]

They interviewed a man who cuts lawns for a living who had to sell one of his lawn mowers for gas money.

Wow. It is really beginning to hit home.

The poor are getting poorer and giving up small luxuries for necessities. You should have seen the clip - jewelry, small appliances, boom boxes.

How sad. If the oil companies were cutting their bonuses in a real effort to help curb costs to the consumer, I would feel it was just the way it is. But they're not.

How about those record profits now? Still feel good about those huge bonuses?

Greedy pigs.

[fooj]

1. Greedy pigs........

Excellent description!:headbang:

[Hubert Flottz]

20. GOP...

Greedy Old Pigs!

[Coexist]

27. Me likey!

:thumbsup:

[DemoTex]

41. Oink!

Lee Raymond (above and below)

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. And just HOW MUCH of this scary shit will the MSM really cover?

OMG! Side stories like like scare the shit out of me...and should NOT be side stories.

[sarcasmo]

25. Thanks to the Decider we are officially a third World Country.

[Beaverhausen]

3. That is so sad

[Chiyo-chichi]

4. No kidding.

And as prices continue to climb, more and more people who are barely getting by now will start to suffer.

[Mojambo]

17. This summer is a big unknown for me

I literally don't know how I'm going to make it.

I've never, in my life, felt such financial uncertainty.

[Chiyo-chichi]

23. I hear ya.

My best to you, Mojambo.

[Mojambo]

32. Thank you. Others have it far worse, I know

I can't imagine the anxiety of people in my situation that might have children to care for.

Scary.

[HeeBGBz]

28. I'm supposed to move south in 3 weeks

My son was coming up to help me move my camper back down to Biloxi. I have to pay gas for two vehicles, one of which will be pulling my 18' camper. I don't know if I can afford to move now with the gas prices so high. It's gonna take a chunk out of my moving in and getting settled money.

[catmandu57]

30. You better do it soon

While you can, it's not going to get any better.

[HeeBGBz]

31. I know. I'm going into minimal survival mode

Making sure I have a good bicycle too.

[TomClash]

5. If Florida had gone for Gore or Kerry . . .

eom

[Beaverhausen]

6. it did

:banghead:

[rzemanfl]

26. Way beat me to it. n/t

[Vincardog]

8. Florida did go GORE

[TomClash]

11. OK, more accurately

If the Dems had put up a real fight in the Florida recount . . .

[annofark]

9. Makes me so happy...

That I drive a small car. I don't know how SUV drivers do it.

[Atman]

7. Taxes on the very wealthy MUST be raised, and raised a LOT

Which Bush knows, too. In the meantime, those millions they've "saved" are earning them more millions in interest, and when the Dems move in to do what must be done, the talking heads will be on all the news shows saying "SEE! As soon as the Democrats get in charge, what's the first thing they do? Raise your taxes!"

I hope Dean and the Democratic leadership are strategizing for this eventuality, and are prepared to shut down the mofo's when they try this shit.

[MikeNearMcChord]

13. Shout from the moutaintops!

ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!!! Get James Carville out there and unleash HELL! The GOP will think this is 1929-1932, before it is over.:patriot:

[MadHound]

10. Well, hang on, it's going to get worse, much worse

This is why the rich and well off don't really care one way or the other about the economy. To them, a recession or better yet a depression is nothing more than a buying opportunity.

[Coexist]

15. "He's picking up some bargains"

"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other"

George Bailey

[HeeBGBz]

29. Sounds like my ex's current wife's creed

She saw Katrina as a chance to buy up real estate cheap on the coast.

[Fridays Child]

12. The guy interviewed didn't give up a small luxury for a necessity...

...he gave up a necessity for a necessity. As far as the economy is concerned, this should be sounding alarm bells like nothing else has in a long, long time. This is not sustainable. We are going to crash.

[Coexist]

16. You are absolutely right his lawnmower was a source of income

He had to cut his business to save a small part of his business.

[Skidmore]

14. We have a van, which I go to town in once a week to buy groceries

and pick up other articles. It is used for hauling and longer trips. We'll keep it because it's paid for and if we ever lose our home, we can sleep in it and haul a few bits of clothing and memories around in it. It is our second vehicle, our first is an 18 year old Corolla which needs to make it until I can locate work, but has high miles on it and is good on gas still. Well, I went to fill the tank on the Town & Country (a 6 cylinder), which I do once a month. It cost me almost $55 to do so. Our Corolla is running about $30/week now too. I remember filling that tank for $10 during the 1990s.

[sui generis]

18. why does this Chappelle scene pop into my head

talking to the classroom full of kids "...and THAT was the first time I sucked dick for crack!"

I have a feeling things are only going to get worse before they get worse.

[Coexist]

22. Holy cow...

I missed that one.

:rofl:

[schmuls]

19. No AC (central) for me this summer unless I'm passing out

from heat exhaustion! And it can get disgustingly hot and humid in Wisconsin.

[postulater]

21. Wages should be indexed monthly to the price of gas

We'd all get rich quick.

[Mr.Green93]

36. The Price of Gas should be Indexed to Wages

Progressive taxes and Prices.

[newswolf56]

24. Simply capitalism in action:

infinite greed disguised as ultimate virtue and the division of all humanity into two classes: rulers and victims. Nothing more, nothing less -- and absolutely predictable.

Also -- though it's far too late -- the resurrection of Marxism.

[savemefromdumbya]

33. we have dusted and oiled the bicyles perhaps we should boycott gas

if they can't sell it?

[paparush]

34. Gannon Pawns his Rim all the time...just ask Bush**

[SupplyConcerns]

38. lol

zing.

[livetohike]

35. Drove by the local gas station this morning and

it was too crowded with people waiting in line to get to the pumps(gas at $2.95, so I thought I would stop for gas on the way back from my other chores. Gas went up 4 cents to $2.99 within the hour. I drive a 1990 Geo Prizm which gets very good gas mileage. I feel sorry for those who are filling up their SUVs.

Is it a choice of buying groceries, paying the bills, or filling up the tank?

[SupplyConcerns]

37. The real problem is peak oil

Not the oil companies, which are acting in the rational way that any company would in our economic system.

[Coexist]

39. I don't agree.

Not all companies don't give back.

[SupplyConcerns]

40. But expecting companies to act in a way contrary

to our economic system is like banging your head against the wall. Let's find something we can do something about...

[leesa]

42. Remember, if it's on CNN, it's designed to get folks to want war for oil

As Steve Forbes said, 'When we invade Iran the price of gas will go down.'