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by Uglydog on 22 May 2008 - 13:05

Leading Oil Analyst predicts this rise in the near future on CNBC..
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080521145247.aspx

How exactly will it effect you, your dogs, your sport?

We have  looking for a new minivan, which might double as a hunting transport vehicle for me, & get rid of the Ford Truck I own, at 16mpg presently.  Long trips will be difficult.

A Declining Dollar=A Declining Nation
Im glad we are spending $1 trillion overseas & not worrying about inflation however.


by Vikram on 22 May 2008 - 13:05


by Jim Stile on 22 May 2008 - 13:05

I have 6 GSD's, so it should not affect me much being I can get a dog sled and learn mush instead of fuss.


MI_GSD

by MI_GSD on 22 May 2008 - 13:05

LMAO Jim!  Not only that....we just brought a new house with enough land for a horse.  Horse and buggy baby!


by Blitzen on 22 May 2008 - 13:05

Oh, I'm not worried about it. Bush will pull a miracle out of his hat and suddenly just before election the price will begin to drop and the credit will be given to the wiley Republicans and used as a gimic to get McCain et al elected. OR the oil companies will have a heart and decide that it's really un-American to make record profits every quarter while us peons are eating beans. The CEO;s will give up their obscene perks and salaries so those earning minimum wage can even get to work without spending their entire paycheck on fuel.  OR we just might get smart and start to think about the most environmentally friendly way to recover and refine our own oil until we find a viable alternative fuel.  You could also buy a Harley, they get great gas mileage and my husband works there so you'd be helping us buy our own gas.  I'd love that.

It all sucks, doesn't it? Thank you Dubya, you certainly have helped to change the way we do business and live in this country. Lucky for us you were elected to 2 terms. Who could ask for more?


MI_GSD

by MI_GSD on 22 May 2008 - 14:05

Out of his hat or out of his ass Blitzen?  My mom and I were talking about that exact thing last night.  She's pulling a large horse trailer with a diesel truck about 200 miles today and it's gonna hurt the pocket.  It's gotten so she can't afford even the smaller, cheaper horse shows.

I just remembered that the prices of hay has also skyrocketed due to the cost of fuel so I guess a horse is out.  It's bad enough that the dog food prices have increased. 


by Blitzen on 22 May 2008 - 14:05

Everything is skyrocketing due to the price of oil.  Many things we don't even think of are effected; everything we wear, use and eat has been produced by petroleum somewhere along the line and it is delivered by trucks fueled with diesel. The railroads may be the only industry to benefit in the the end. Chicken feed, cattle feed, the diesel to fuel the tractors to plow the fields, plant, and harvest the food we will be eating next year. Hay, straw, is predicted to at least double in price by the end of this year. We will be paying as much for pole beans this yearaas we paid for filets in 2000.  The upside is maybe some of us will lose the weight we have packed on eating those filets.

BTW, be very careful with chickens this year. Much of the  "organic chicken feed" is being imported from China now. If you are a raw feeder and buy organically fed chickens, be sure to ask the chicken raiser where their food comes from. Best to be using locally milled animal feed right now. If you're feeding free range chickens, you're OK. But if you're buying it at the supermarket or a butcher shop that processes "organically fed" poultry using Chinese feed, you may as well be feeding Eukanuba. It's probably a lot safer in today's world.

Innaguration Day 2009 can't come fast enough for me.

 


Corley

by Corley on 22 May 2008 - 14:05

I have 3 horses and 5 dogs along with a new house. The price of fuel is hurting everyone in our country in one way or another. Is our government blind or just DAMN greedy. They want the crime rate to go down, but they are making it harder for the average person to raise a family. If the fuel prices keeps climbing the crime rate is going to do the same. 

 


by s_vargas on 22 May 2008 - 16:05

Maybe the tree huggin libs should just let us drill our own oil then we would be fine.  Or if the whack jobs in CA would loosin up and let us build some refineries it may help. 

Dont blame GWB for all of this.  There is a lot more involved than him and this war. 

As far as our dollar being worth nothing, you can thank the libs in Congress that forced the financial institues to loan money to people that should not have a credit card let alone a god damn mortgage.  Then when these people could not keep up with there rising adjustable mortgages they lost their houses.  Houses they never should have had in the first place.  Then our brilliant government decided to lower the interest rate causing our dollar to lose value to try and help these people.  A problem Congress created.  I dont mind putting blame where it goes but lets be fair, this does not rest soley on Bush.  A president can do almost nothing without the approval of Congress.

I know I bit into this, but what does this have to do with dogs?

Shawn


MI_GSD

by MI_GSD on 22 May 2008 - 16:05

It effects dog sport and breeding in quite a few ways.  Middle class people are doing away with the things that they would spend their expendable cash on.  Therefore, they aren't buying the higher priced animals nor are they importing them.  Attendance at trials (and horse shows) is way down.  It's more expensive to fly judges in and for people to drive to the trials.

Feed the dogs or pay for gas?  Buy another pup or pay for gas?  Shoot, come to think of it...feed myself or pay for gas?






 


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