http://www.peteczech.com/2008/05/19/time-gas-money/ Web guru, developer, CTO, theorist, idea generator, social media enthusiast and entrepreneur. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.peteczech.com/2008/05/19/time-gas-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Bobby Smalls Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.peteczech.com/2008/05/19/time-gas-money/#comment-1236 This is very true. One other thing that gets me is the complaining about the prices. Sure we all hate paying more for something we need, but people take it too far. A few years ago, the last time the prices went really high, the news was... interviewing some people about it. Some woman said "We always drive a couple hundred miles to (someplace...can't remember) and now with these prices, we ca't go" Really? the previous yeas, prices per gallon were half what they were that year. How much could they have possibly spent on gas to drive there the previous year? $50? $100? Ok, so you double that and you get your new cost, and you see that if $50 or $100 is the difference between your vacation and doing nothing then you need to handle your money better. If you will go broke losing an extra $100, then you shouldn't be going down the street for a vacation. This is very true. One other thing that gets me is the complaining about the prices. Sure we all hate paying more for something we need, but people take it too far. A few years ago, the last time the prices went really high, the news was… interviewing some people about it. Some woman said “We always drive a couple hundred miles to (someplace…can’t remember) and now with these prices, we ca’t go” Really? the previous yeas, prices per gallon were half what they were that year. How much could they have possibly spent on gas to drive there the previous year? $50? $100? Ok, so you double that and you get your new cost, and you see that if $50 or $100 is the difference between your vacation and doing nothing then you need to handle your money better. If you will go broke losing an extra $100, then you shouldn’t be going down the street for a vacation.

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