Comments on: Gas dips below $4 a gallon — brace yourself for fuel price amnesia

By: tripso.com | Americans are driving less for eighth straight month

tripso.com | Americans are driving less for eighth straight month — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:09:14 +0000

[...] unclear if this trend will continue. Now that energy prices are falling, it’s possible that fuel price amnesia will set it, and American motorists will return to the [...]

By: tripso.com | Soaring fuel prices push telecommuting trend — for now

tripso.com | Soaring fuel prices push telecommuting trend — for now — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:20:02 +0000

[...] a return to the office (after all, some workers need to be supervised). And there’s always fuel-price amnesia, which happens whenever gas prices drop, as they have [...]

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:10:11 +0000

Have you heard about the new checked baggage fee’s for Delta? The oil has kept moving down slowly and Delta simply doubled their fees for the second checked bag. Not only that, previous “checked baggage fees” were given to the customers with a couple weeks notice. In this case, embrace yourself to pay for this starting August 5th. Thankfully I have never been a fan of Delta.

By: MoNgo

MoNgo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:29:19 +0000

If it makes you feel better, DOT will need a tax increase to offset the double-whammy of 1) less revenue from decrease in gasoline purchases and 2) great increases in asphalt prices–puts a dent in their $1.7 trillion budget, just when bridges are collapsing in Minnesota.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:36:00 +0000

I found an interesting site, while online that boasts a new service that offers fixed price gasoline. The company is GasBankUSA and their website is http://www.gasbankusa.com

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:59:37 +0000

Some American politician once fumed at the European full taxes. It was a waste of tax-payers money he argued. The European politician answered: well, that’s only how you look at it. We’ve used that tax money to improve our European infrastructure, and build a very good public transportation network, and all the jobs related to that network. Furthermore, we got citizens to buy more fuel efficient cars, before gas prices went bezerk.

Now that prices are going up, people have an alternative travel method. In the US, all the money for gas has flown out directly out of the US, into the hands of folks you don’t really wanna call your friends. Let’s not forget the US is still buying oil from Iran.

Meanwhile in the US, USDOT is doubting that a metro line to Washington Dulles can ever be cost-efficient, and Virginia legislators are more worried about their tobacco subsidies. This obviously, despite the success of rail connections to airports in New York, Chicago, San Fran, Boston, Mexico City, Tokyo, London, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, etc etc etc.