What a spectacular day! Outside, it’s about 75 degrees and slowly getting warmer as I write this. Clear blue skies, low humidity with a soft breeze surround us at our new location in beautiful New Hampshire for the next seven days. We have cable TV at our site in Twin Tamarack Family Camping and RV Resort (still haven’t solved our satellite TV dilemma) and the weather report is for MOS the next seven days! We feel so fortunate especially after seeing the news last night for the first time regarding the devastation from Katrina. Until then, we were relying on the Internet for information about the hurricane with few pictures. As most of your know, our tentative plans were to eventually move south down the Atlantic coast to the Florida Keys then to head west along the gulf through Texas. Of course, now that has changed and we haven’t really decided what our plan will be past Georgia. That’s just one of the wonderful things about living fulltime in our RV … we can be flexible and adapt to whatever situation arises.
As we traveled along yesterday from Port Henry NY, I watched as the gasoline prices along the highways we drove (about 150 miles) were spread from $ 3.59 to $ 3.09 per gallon and all points in between. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the prices. It appears to us that it’s every person for her/himself and the ones charging the highest prices are doing so from greed, not necessity. That might change as time goes along but for right now, as long as they are pumping the same gasoline they paid a lower price for to the distributors … tell me why are some station owners raising prices? Yes dear readers, my opinion says it is greediness … pure and simple. It breaks my heart to see Americans gouging their fellow citizens and taking advantage of a crisis situation. I feel like stopping and confronting the highest price stations and telling them they should be ashamed of themselves. Sadly, the owners won’t be there to take the admonishment. Their employees will be all alone to take the abuse from disgruntled drivers. Oh yes, as an aside, we saw very few cars at the higher priced stations and no more than normal pumping going on at the lower prices. Thankfully, it appears there will be no panic at the pumps … thank you my fellow Americans!
Okay, that’s my soapbox speech for this time. We have a good Internet connection (it took some maneuvering and we even had to change sites but we got it) here so I’ll try and do some catching up this upcoming week.
As we traveled along yesterday from Port Henry NY, I watched as the gasoline prices along the highways we drove (about 150 miles) were spread from $ 3.59 to $ 3.09 per gallon and all points in between. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the prices. It appears to us that it’s every person for her/himself and the ones charging the highest prices are doing so from greed, not necessity. That might change as time goes along but for right now, as long as they are pumping the same gasoline they paid a lower price for to the distributors … tell me why are some station owners raising prices? Yes dear readers, my opinion says it is greediness … pure and simple. It breaks my heart to see Americans gouging their fellow citizens and taking advantage of a crisis situation. I feel like stopping and confronting the highest price stations and telling them they should be ashamed of themselves. Sadly, the owners won’t be there to take the admonishment. Their employees will be all alone to take the abuse from disgruntled drivers. Oh yes, as an aside, we saw very few cars at the higher priced stations and no more than normal pumping going on at the lower prices. Thankfully, it appears there will be no panic at the pumps … thank you my fellow Americans!
Okay, that’s my soapbox speech for this time. We have a good Internet connection (it took some maneuvering and we even had to change sites but we got it) here so I’ll try and do some catching up this upcoming week.
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