I almost want to give up

At an all-time high price for feeder hay, I can chop the stand up and leave it on the ground instead of spending the whole check for fertilizer. Either way I have to pungle up for the diesel to make the hay or chop the hay. Guess which is easier.

And I thought filling my gasoline tank in my automobile tonight here in Chama, New Mexico, at 3.859 per gallon for the cheapest I could find was outrageous. It cost $50 to fill my automobile tank!! The most I ever paid in my life. I saw a sign on this trip for diesel at $4.799 per gallon and was flabbergasted. You write of diesel at over $5 per gallon?!

You know, this could kill our hobby the way we have always understood it in the past. Go to shows? Take tractors to shows? Run around in parades? Play in the dirt? There comes a time when we can't afford it anymore. And, unfortunately, I am just about there.

A retired member,

GWH

I am also retired and on fixed income, it sure makes it hard to go get parts from where I live. I have to drive about 50 miles one way. I do as much as I can on the trips, hair cur, grocery shopping, pickup medication and what ever I can to eliminate so many trips, Do as much on line as I can and look for free shipping. I have cut back but am still planning to take the RD-6 to the BSOT, I think I have a ride for it but am looking for a backup truck if it falls apart for the genitive truck I have lined up. It is not to far from my place to Woodland, about 40 miles one way The madness of fuel pricing has to stop some time, just when? Too bad we cant park all the trucks and farm tractors and watch how fast something happens when there no grocery on the local city's store shelfs
I need not get started on a rant.
Hope to see you all at the Woodland show.
Frank Fox

Please dont moan about the U.S. cost of Diesel fuel ,in the U.K.its hit about £1.35 a litre = $13.00 a gallon??????
Things are realy getting tight.

tctractors

Please dont moan about the U.S. cost of Diesel fuel ,in the U.K.its hit about £1.35 a litre = $13.00 a gallon??????
Things are realy getting tight.

tctractors

[quote="tctractors"]Please dont moan about the U.S. cost of Diesel fuel ,in the U.K.its hit about £1.35 a litre = $13.00 a gallon??????
Things are realy getting tight.

tctractors[/quote]

Well you don't really pay that much more for the petroleum, you government just rapes you way more on taxes...

And I thought in the UK a lot of your diesel is biodiesel from rapeseed?

Here is curremt pricing, notice how my state is right up there with California prices:

http://www.truckmiles.com/FuelPrices.asp

UK pricing:

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/

By my calculations:

1 US GAL = 3.785 litres

1.279 GBP = 2.528 USD

$2.528 X 3.785 l/gal = $9.57/gallon of Diesel in the UK.

So you're paying $4.52 more per gallon of diesel. Not sure how much of that is taxes... But in any event, yes, this sucks for everyone.

[quote="tctractors"]Please dont moan about the U.S. cost of Diesel fuel ,in the U.K.its hit about £1.35 a litre = $13.00 a gallon??????
Things are realy getting tight.

tctractors[/quote]

Well you don't really pay that much more for the petroleum, you government just rapes you way more on taxes...

And I thought in the UK a lot of your diesel is biodiesel from rapeseed?

Here is curremt pricing, notice how my state is right up there with California prices:

http://www.truckmiles.com/FuelPrices.asp

UK pricing:

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/

By my calculations:

1 US GAL = 3.785 litres

1.279 GBP = 2.528 USD

$2.528 X 3.785 l/gal = $9.57/gallon of Diesel in the UK.

So you're paying $4.52 more per gallon of diesel. Not sure how much of that is taxes... But in any event, yes, this sucks for everyone.

So, what happens when the fuel prices turn things upside down, there has to be a point where fuel dependent necessities like the transportation industry and all others dependent on it will reach a breaking point because as the price of everything goes up, selling prices have to also go up. What happens when people really can't afford things due to this. Salaries do not increase, prices go way up, people cut back, and those who don't live beyond their means play the game until there is no game to play, it's every person for themselves at some point, excuse me uh mr government, so uh WTF do we need you for anymore, you're not doing the job for the people, yer fired, we have a new government..... the people !

Seriously though, looks like impending doom here, no one really knows what the heck is going to happen, where we are headed, just a bunch of cattle being herded towards what, a cliff or better grazing ???

You realize that the middle eastern terrorists must really be enjoying this, just keep fooling with crude oil long enough, kind of like bombardment from the air before the invasion, softening things up ? Paranoid or not we are wallowed in the mire, and sinking quickly here, really time to make changes and solve the problems or it will be reality.