Gas Prices are Sucking Me Dry
Living with a chronic illness comes with a lot of considerations. You have medications you need, food and you need gas to get to a doctors office. They all seem to work together you need food to survive just to get to the doctors office to get medicine, but you have to have gas to get to the doctor. When you’re on a fixed income it’s difficult to get to the doctor. You’re stuck with the chose of giving your car gas or putting food in your stomach. If you buy the food then you can’t buy gas to get to the doctors, to get your medication. Then your health suffers. Really living with a chronic illness you can’t win. You need food to keep you healthy, but you need gas to get the food. It’s a vicious cycle it seems.
I’ve had to learn to pinch some pennies just to survive. I can’t put many new clothes on my daughters back. We have to go to the thrift stores to survive, and it’s hard in my area because there are only few thrift shops. The thrift shops many times want retail for hand me downs. I don’t have a problem with hand me downs, I’m always out for deal, but when there’s stains and tears all over the clothes, it’s a no go. I have seen days I can go to Kmart and the prices at the thrift stores are higher prices because they have someone’s name on it.
The food prices have been a nightmare. You can’t get away with cheap meals at a cheap price. The foods that are the healthiest are the most expensive. They whine that kids need better nutrition, but who can afford the food. The prices of the food costs have been affected by the rising gas prices.
I have to plan my errand accordingly. Usually I plan to go to more then one place at a time. If I need to go to the doctors then I will go to the store the same day. The gas prices have affected everything in my life.
How have the gas prices affected your life?
July 05 2008 08:46 pm | Life with Lupus
July 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I found your site on Google and read a few of your other entires. Nice Stuff. I’m looking forward to reading more from you.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
With the state of the economy as it is, the chronically ill are getting squeezed more than ever. It’s an election year, but I don’t see any real change on the horizon.
July 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
American Ingenuity Has An Immediate Fix For Our Fuel Crisis.
Thirty-five years ago during the Mideast oil embargo when gas shot from 25 cents/gallon to $1/gallon, Chicago chemist, Tim Leahy, partnered with stock car racing legend & pioneer, Ray Nichels, the winningest race car mechanic in US history, to develop a fuel additive which would boost gas mileage by 25 to 50%. The Leahy/Nichels team accomplished their goal and sold several hundred thousand bottles of MPG50 (http://MPG50.com) in the early ’70’s, but the American public got used to $1/gallon gas prices and sales soon fell off.
However, a few weeks ago when gasoline & diesel prices hit $4 to $5/gallon, Leahy decided to renew marketing efforts for the effective mileage booster, MPG50. Greg Perich, a friend & Jacksonville Florida radio station owner (WJXR, 92.1 FM), asked Leahy to market MPG50 on his popular Jacksonville Radio Shopping Show. Perich promptly begin selling 100 to 200 bottles of MPG50 daily to happy customers who were experiencing hefty increases in gas mileage and began saving $1 to $2/gallon at the pump.
If every vehicle in the USA used MPG50, we could immediately reduce our need for foreign oil by 25% to 35% and gas prices would drop substantially.
Trucking companies could also reduce their cost of transporting food and goods by 1/3 and the cost of goods to consumers would drop substantially.
Sales went so exceptionally well in Jacksonville that Leahy plans to market MPG50 through other USA radio stations and globally as well, in countries where gasoline and diesel prices are considerably higher than in the US.
We have a 30-Day Full Satisfaction Moneyback Guarantee and in 35 years we never had a bottle returned.
Regards,
Tim Leahy
630-258-4318
Subject: gas treatment
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:39:29 -0400
I am Franklin Peacock and I live in south Georgia, better known as Waycross and I pastor a church.
Many of my church families use hospitals that are over a 100 miles or more away from our town.
While in Jacksonville, Fla. I was listening to talk radio.I heard this spin on a gas treatment called MPG50.
Fuel costs are so high today and I can use as much as three tankfuls of gasoline a week.
To be honest I have heard these claims before and they turned out to be false.
I waited about a week before I looked up the website, http://MPG50.com and I placed an order for six bottles.
I put MPG50 in my dodge truck with a 5.9 V8 engine made a 250 mile trip to visit a sick church member in the hospital.
I averaged about 65 miles per hour and 18 miles per gallon on gas.
Yes it worked well immediately at that speed, whereas before I had been averaging only 15 miles per gallon.
This is the best mileage my truck has ever done since it was manufactured.
I have just received my second MPG50 order this morning.
I have sold my friends a case and now many others are asking for this product.
It works exceptionally well and will save me money every time I stop at the gas pump.
I own 3 vehicles. The treatment is in the tanks and by the end of the month I will see the savings in my gas bill.
The oil treatment was put in my truck yesterday and I will report its additional success real soon .
I can’t help but believe that other gas users need this savings and reduction in wear and tear on their engines.
Rev. Franklin Peacock
Waycross,Ga.31503
Subject: gasoline/diesel fuel treatment
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008
Dear Daily Savings Club,
Thank you so very much for recommending your MPG50 money-saving gasoline & diesel additive to us. I have now finished my third tank of gas using MPG50 and am enjoying a substantial increase in miles per gallon.
In mostly city driving my 2004 Ford Explorer was only getting 11.2 MPG before, but now with MPG50 in my tank I get 15.5 MPG. This is an increase in mileage of better than 38% which saves me $1.52 per gallon at the gas pump. With gas at $4 a gallon in Georgetown, KY, one $25 bottle of MPG50 saves me $243.20 in gasoline costs.
I am excited to be the distributor in the Georgetown/Lexington, Kentucky area for MPG50 and look forward to helping my customers overcome high gasoline costs. I know the word will spread fast, as we all hate to pay so much money to fill up our gas tanks.
With your 30-day money-back guarantee on MPG50, I expect that I will soon have customers lined up at my store to buy it
Sincerely,
Linda Craig
Georgetown, KY 40324
July 6th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Oh well I guess everybody feels the same way about Gas Price Hike. I am taking the bus instead of bring our can to go to work.
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July 6th, 2008 at 7:19 am
They have made me back Obama for president. I don’t drive, don’t eat out, not a big spender period. I wear clothes I wore in high school! I bought like 30 pairs of the only shoe I wore to 18 years of my retired from job, back in 1982. Cut back Starbucks(my only vice) sevral years ago…maybe will go to one a day. I’m a saver, always been.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I found this website http://www.gasbankusa.com which talks about locking in a fixed price for gas. Take a look.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I’m with you on all of this! I’d suggest shopping at church run, or other smaller thrift stores instead of the larger ones like Goodwill. They seem to have a lower mark up on items. Ask you doctor for samples of meds or for coupons. It’s tough all over and really hard for those of us who have chronic medical problems.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
IT’S TIME TO TAKE STRONG ACTION ON FUEL.
Email your representative in congress and push the issue: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
The best thing we can do is get the government off their drug trip and grow a crop that works. Industrial hemp is useless as a drug but it can provide over 50,000 products that are more environmentally friendly than products in use today. This single plant can provide all the basic necessities of human life, food, clothing, building material and fuel. Don’t let them lie to you about the land, there is plenty of farm land. We have over 100 million total farm acres in the USA and only use about half. The half that’s not being planted is way more than enough to grow ALL our fuel. Not only that but the government is still paying farmers not to plant. Watch the video titled “HEMP FUEL Can Supply All Our Energy Needs” and read the article titled “Marijuana Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Know” on the website referenced at the bottom of this post.
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Hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.
Source: MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY
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Hemp can produce several different kinds of fuel. In the 1800’s and 1900’s hempseed oil was the primary source of fuel in the United States and was commonly used for lamps and other oil energy needs. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hemp oil because Rudolf Diesel assumed that it would be the most common fuel. Hemp is also the most efficient plant for the production of methanol. It is estimated that, in one form or another, hemp grown in the United States could provide up to ninety percent of the nation’s entire energy needs.
Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
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Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel. Hemp pellets can be used to produce clean electricity.
… so powerful it could replace every type of fossil fuel energy product (oil, coal, and natural gas).
… This plant is the earth’s number one biomass resource or fastest growing annual plant for agriculture on a worldwide basis, producing up to 14 tons per acre. This is the only biomass source available that is capable of producing all the energy needs of the U.S. and the world…
Hemp will produce cleaner air and reduce greenhouse gases. When biomass fuel burns, it produces CO2 (the major cause of the greenhouse effect), the same as fossil fuel; but during the growth cycle of the plant, photosynthesis removes as much CO2 from the air as burning the biomass adds, so hemp actually cleans the atmosphere. After the first cycle there is no further loading to the atmosphere…
Source: USA Hemp Museum
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Up to 300 gallons of fuel per acre, 500,000 acres of unused US farm land, up to 3 crops a yr in some areas… you do the math. Even if these estimates are way off there’s enough fuel there to give OPEC a lot to think about.
WATCH THE FUEL VIDEOS, read “Marijuana Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Know”:
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Connie–great idea!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
For info on saving $1 to $2/gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel see: http://tleahy.wordpress.com/
July 31st, 2008 at 12:48 am
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