Comments on: Gas Prices: Suck It Up!

By: Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management

Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:47:57 +0000

Poking the Bear…

Yeah, even I’m not terribly thrilled with gas prices these days, previous commentary to the contrary. But the point that I was trying to express back in August 2005 was perhaps better expressed by Robert Reich earlier this week, in his post abou…

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:27:45 +0000

If we pegged wages to the increase of energy prices, it’d be an economic disaster. Please note that, in the original post—written nearly three years ago—I did argue that folks at the economic margins do have a beef. My rage was mainly aimed at SUV-driving yuppies here in my white-bread Huntsville suburb.

And with that, I’ll just close comments here. There’s nothing that seems to be added to the discussion at this point, as the people who’re commenting here clearly are missing my original point and venting—which, well, I understand. It sucks to pay $60 to fill my little WRX, but I made a choice and have to live with the consequences.

By: I'm not poor, but I do care

I'm not poor, but I do care — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:26:40 +0000

In Texas, and don’t make fun of Texas, minimum wage is $6.50 gas prices are 3.87. If They are rising gas prices why don’t raise minimum wage higher?

By: Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management

Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:02:48 +0000

Gas Prices and Fisking…

Every so often, a piece I wrote in 2005 about gas prices gets people leaving snide comments. I thought I’d fisk today’s, ’cause I’m feelin’ snarky.
Lets see we can go to mars. We can build a space station. You kind of get…

By: Get Real

Get Real — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:52:30 +0000

Lets see we can go to mars. We can build a space station. You kind of get the idea. MB comes out with a car that is the size of my shoe and it only gets 35miles per gal. So why can’t we make a car that get 60 to 70 miles per gallon??? I have a 2 seater sports car that has a supper charger on it and I get 29MPG on the highway.
You can kind of fill in the blanks. I have this feeling the good old American public is getting the screw job. I don’t hear anyone talking about this on the campaign trail. But we know big oil is a big backer of our dear legislators.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:43:17 +0000

You, sir, have paid zero attention to the logical argument made, nor the fact that this post is almost two years old. So, how about you take the advice of the spoof email address you used.

By: Walking my happy broke ass too work

Walking my happy broke ass too work — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:41:28 +0000

You sir, are an idiot.

Good Day

By: Watcher

Watcher — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:20:22 +0000

Dont worry poor people cant afford to keep up cars anymore, gas prices dont effect them. If you open your eyes you’ll see the people working minimum wage traversing on foot through the sprawl.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:33:31 +0000

So encourage your Congresscritters to increase the Federal gasoline taxes. The state and local guys are way too wimpy to do it in most places.

By: Ranger

Ranger — Mon, 29 May 2006 15:16:35 +0000

I wish Gas were $20.00 a Gal. then they would make cars that ran on somthing else, like hydrogen or electricity. The answer isn’t lower gas prices, the answer is, screw OPEC. Americans just need to make cars that run something else other than oil.

By: Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management

Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management — Mon, 01 May 2006 22:21:13 +0000

Gas Tax Yes, Oil Tax No

Tyler Cowen posits a compelling economic argument in favor of increasing gasoline taxes, rather than levying windfall profit taxes on oil companies:
Taxing gas prices puts an immediate burden on motorists, although the profits tax may bring higher pric…

By: John

John — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:38:58 +0000

It might be time for a re-thinking of this opinion about gas prices. The local station near my home increased FOURTEEN CENTS in 24 hours! $2.75 – $2.89 for the cheap stuff! And this at a time when it’s reported that our oil reserves are at an 8 year high! Hello?

By: GPS

GPS — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:19:16 +0000

That $2.50/gal is looking good now….

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:18:27 +0000

More on TrackBack Timestamping

Most of the blognoscenti may well say that TrackBack is dead, but … just now, I realized that I hadn’t done proper linking between two entries, and so I sent a TB from an old entry to a new one. I thought about going in and editing the co…

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:12:12 +0000

More on Gas Prices

And again I say: “Suck it up!”
Gas Prices Graph, with adjustments for inflation.
Feel better now?
[HT to John. I :heart: jowilson.]

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By: Karyn

Karyn — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:11:15 +0000

Yes, but gas is still cheaper here than most places overseas.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:53:30 +0000

Yes, my little four-banger is fuel efficient, Rick.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:52:11 +0000

$30? I unfortunately probably saw the last sub-$50 fillup on my truck. I love having a vehicle big enough for me… but dang, I was kind ahalf-heartedly thinking about trading it in for a hybrid yesterday when I saw gas at $2.50/gallon at the cheap stores.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:35:18 +0000

Yeah, Heather, it’s not much fun. To respond to my dad’s question, this would have been painful for me when I was doing all the crappy jobs I did before I started co-oping [and yes, I had financial support from my folks at the time, but I was paying a goodly chunk of what I was doing], and I would’ve felt it when I was first co-oping, too [and at that time, I was making $11.21/hr.].

I’m hopeful that the end of the “summer driving season” will bring its annual dip in prices, and that further refining capacity will come online/be restored. Even I blinked when it took $30+ to fill up the truck this weekend…

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:11:01 +0000

Allow my to be the bearer of truth for a minute:

When _steve said Jesus was wrong, the steve was full of crap.

Okay, resume unedited commenting.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:48:31 +0000

All I know is that I need a break, and I drive a very fuel efficient japaneese import.

This whole changing-my-entire-budget-just-so-I-can-drive-to-work thing sucks.

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:36:34 +0000

Some people believe that anyone below the median income level is poor. They don’t understand the word median.

How many people do you know that make only the minimum wage? Is their labor worth what they are being paid?

Gasoline prices have not kept up with inflation for many years. Thanks, primarily, to engineers developing ways to suck crude out and refine it cheaper.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:20:19 +0000

Millenia of economic stratification says otherwise.

By: _steve

_steve — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:34:43 +0000

Allow me to be a liberal for a second…

Jesus was wrong. Poverty isn’t inevitable.

Okay. Resume the mild conservatism.