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Valued Member
United States
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Hey Jim, you ever read the studies that show the pipeline in Alaska actually INCREASES the population of the divine Carabu? The heat produced by the pipe appartently attracts large numbers of the animals to one spot where they all hang out and...well, there's not much to do in Alaska! So they have babies and lots of um!
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Valued Member
United States
277 Posts |
I ride my motorcycle most days. 45mpg in town. :)
Fatcat
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Valued Member
United States
206 Posts |
I have been steadily adding a couple of common-date morgans every week. I have a set going (that was left to me) but it's very small, and I can't even begin to imagine what it would cost to pick up some of the very key dates.
Mainly I just buy cause I love the coins, and would like to own as many as possible.. even if they are all 1889 Os.
Anyway enough rambling.. my morgan buying will continue.. but if Jim1953 is right, 10 dollar/gallon gas will certainly put an end to most 'unnecessary' spending for me.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I live 1/2 mile from my local coin shop so I always walk there when the weather is nice. As much as I go there, I bet I would burn through almost $10 a month in gas  |
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Valued Member
United States
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$3.75 here today. Just have approximately 3 more trips encompassing 30+ banks and driving will no longer be practical: too far. After that it will be stops on road trips and finding a bank that will order boxes. Could go back to the banks that I have previously cleaned out and hope for new customer rolls. Anyway, it has been fun. Still looking for a car with better gas mileage. That will extend the budget some as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi, three. Yes, I had read the same thing. Shows that everything that industry and business in general touches does not have to harm the environment.
Jim
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
i ask the people in the gas station if the gas was gold plated now.the blame goes to fab president we have now.he own oil.it will be like nixion I 'am not a crock.the republicans will get hit bad in the elections for this.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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the blame goes to fab president we have now.he own oil. If you have a 401K chances are that you own oil stock too. By your logic I guess we're all to blame. |
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If you have a 401K chances are that you own oil stock too. By your logic I guess we're all to blame. Yup, got some buried in mine, right next to the tobacco!  We are all part of the problem. We allow ourselves (or our friends and family) to support the status quo. We encourage an industry that feels money is better invested in creating the next flashy bling-mobile, rather than more efficient engines or products that do not use fossil fuels.  But back to the topic... For the things that can't be found in my normal change, I save my coin budget for local coin shows. Long gone are the days when I made weekly trips to the coin shops.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My budget disappeared last October. Purchases have been very slim since then. Not sure when it is going to end. I have been looking for a small car, as my pick-up only gets 17mpg. So with gas at least $3.75/ gal here it takes $85-90 to fill it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well I see south of where I live it's $3.65 Found it for $3.54 yesterday and topped off. It keeps going up i'll cut my trips to the coin shop to twice a month instead of every week. Or plan it to where shopping day falls in the same town. I have to say thats one of the reasons I went back to roll hunting. I still buy my needed lincolns here and there but I have cut back also on spending
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For the things that can't be found in my normal change, I save my coin budget for local coin shows Hey Jbuck !....What happened to ..."I'm going to have to live vicariously through others as far as any coin purchases for quite some time now."........I believe you made a statement like this !! Right around the birth of Jbuck Jr. !!...... hummmmm......that didn't take long for the addiction/disease of coin collecting to bring ya back in !.....  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Disease!! Is it contagious?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I own a business that everything we do depends on oil
products and diamonds. The 2 most overvalued
commodities going right now. All we can do is raise
our prices drastically. This is what all other businesses
are doing as well. You haven't even seen the tip of the
iceberg called 'the cost of living' yet!
When fuel prices increase, prices for EVERYTHING go
up. The hilarious part of this is that the US govt
doesn't include oil prices in any of their inflation
or cost of living indexes! That is unreal!
I won't even get started on farm states senators
forcing laws that require our fuel supply to increase
percentage of corn ethanol content annually! Raising
the cost of food and living exponentially through
artificial means.
OR, the fact that ANWAR is 95% uninhabited arctic desert,
yet the commercials against drilling there all show Bambi
frolicking in the forest. A scene representing only 5% of
ANWAR in reality, and that 5% is the part that
DOESN'T contain any oil. What a joke.
Btw:
From what I understand, CITGO is majority owned by the
Venezuelan govt. Unfortunately where we are located,
CITGO always has the cheapest gas/diesel prices.
Concerning coins, I have to raise your prices for
services so I can afford to continue to collect them!
:sarcasm:
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Valued Member
United States
473 Posts |
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Concerning coins, I have to raise your prices for
services so I can afford to continue to collect them!
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Posted 05/14/2008 2:55 pm
