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Old 04-26-2012, 04:10 AM   #1
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Anyone else feel the same?

Every time I fill my Jeep up for $90 I can't help but think...

Theres a new reel..... theres a new rod.....

I always look at my expenditures in terms of what piece of fishing gear I could have gotten.

I need to start riding my bike more =/
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Old 04-26-2012, 04:51 AM   #2
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No, I didn't think of it like that. But thanks for mentioning it, I wil now...
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Old 04-26-2012, 05:44 AM   #3
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I tend to think it's ok when the wife goes to the grocery store and spends 300.00, or paying 290.00 for cable, internet and phone is o.k. or 400.00 a month on smokes and beer is cool. But when I go spend 100.00 friggin' bucks on fishing gear I have a giant guilt trip.
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Old 04-26-2012, 06:02 AM   #4
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X2 i think we should all boycott the gas companies and just buy fishing stuff instead.... lol
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Old 04-26-2012, 06:28 AM   #5
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Every time I fill my Jeep up for $90 I can't help but think...

Theres a new reel..... theres a new rod.....

I always look at my expenditures in terms of what piece of fishing gear I could have gotten.

I need to start riding my bike more =/
Since I bought my truck back in January I had not filled it up fully. A couple weeks ago I let the thing fill up. The gas station I was at automatically stops the pump at $100. My truck wasn't full all the way but I was shocked to finally hit the $100 mark for filling a vehicle, and yes, I did think wow, I could have bought so many fishing things with that same $100.
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Old 04-26-2012, 07:27 AM   #6
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$90 - I wish I could spend $90 a week on fuel. My weekly fuel bill typically is $160! If I dont have any shoots to go to on the weekends I get to only put $120 of Diesel in the tank...
The drive to the beach is only 5 minutes, so I guess I have the argument that I actually save money by fishing on the weekends!
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Old 04-26-2012, 08:02 AM   #7
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I can buy a PA every time I have to pay the rent and the most sad part of it, or TAX MONEY, goes to Israel and mid east war
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Old 04-26-2012, 08:12 AM   #8
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My all wheel drive Ridgeline truck only gets used for kayak fishing .
All other times, I drive Toyota Camry to save gas.
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Old 04-26-2012, 08:13 AM   #9
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I can buy a PA every time I have to pay the rent and the most sad part of it, or TAX MONEY, goes to Israel and mid east war
No the sad part is our tax money goes to digging for oil to make gass for who? CHINA!!!!
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Old 04-26-2012, 08:19 AM   #10
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No the sad part is our tax money goes to digging for oil to make gass for who? CHINA!!!!
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Old 04-26-2012, 11:25 AM   #11
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I can buy a PA every time I have to pay the rent and the most sad part of it, or TAX MONEY, goes to Israel and mid east war
Jeezus! We could name hundreds of things that our tax money goes to that never seem to pan out. Dept. of Education, Nat'l. Endowment of the Arts, Needle Exchange Programs, etc...

Gonna get completely roasted on this I am sure, but do you know what those big, greedy, evil, capitalist pig oil companies make per gallon of gas?

5 fuckin cents!


Do you know how much the state and federal gov't gets?

45 cents!

So, who's really the ones screwin' you?


I didn't make this shit up, but facts are facts, and numbers are numbers, and neither one of them lie. These numbers have absolutely nothing to do with politics, they just are what they are.


Alright, I'll get off my soapbox now!
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Old 04-26-2012, 11:40 AM   #12
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You hit the nail on the head Seriola - every bit of it true...
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Old 04-26-2012, 11:49 AM   #13
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Jeezus! We could name hundreds of things that our tax money goes to that never seem to pan out. Dept. of Education, Nat'l. Endowment of the Arts, Needle Exchange Programs, etc...

Gonna get completely roasted on this I am sure, but do you know what those big, greedy, evil, capitalist pig oil companies make per gallon of gas?

5 fuckin cents!


Do you know how much the state and federal gov't gets?

45 cents!

So, who's really the ones screwin' you?


I didn't make this shit up, but facts are facts, and numbers are numbers, and neither one of them lie. These numbers have absolutely nothing to do with politics, they just are what they are.


Alright, I'll get off my soapbox now!
It's more than that....


http://www.api.org/Oil-and-Natural-G...l-summary.ashx
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Old 04-26-2012, 03:19 PM   #14
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Jeezus! We could name hundreds of things that our tax money goes to that never seem to pan out. Dept. of Education, Nat'l. Endowment of the Arts, Needle Exchange Programs, etc...
Hey don't forget our tax payer money did go to making a pretty cool music video..! And an all taxpayer paid awards ceremony for said video in vegas!

Taxpayer gas: $4.00=
Fed Employee: $0.00+ Gov vehicle+awards ceremony/vacation+per diem+regular pay=
Federal employees.....God bless'em! They are truly gods people!


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Old 04-26-2012, 07:49 AM   #15
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I spend $120-150 a week on gas, working 76 hours a week that money puts about 100k a year into my family if I spend 3k a year on myself for fishing, thats ok with me, and it better be ok with them.
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Old 04-26-2012, 07:54 AM   #16
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One of the tackle shop guys at fred hall used that logic to try and convince me to buy a Tranx. Really thought about it but if spend 500 so will the wife
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Old 04-26-2012, 07:56 AM   #17
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I spend 40.00 a week max and I drive quite a bit including a few fishing trips. Gotta love my 4cyl 4runner!
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Old 04-26-2012, 03:13 PM   #18
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Every time I fill my Jeep up for $90 I can't help but think...

Theres a new reel..... theres a new rod.....

I always look at my expenditures in terms of what piece of fishing gear I could have gotten.

I need to start riding my bike more =/
yup, felt the same way each time that i filled up my sequoia. $160 a week and that was when gas was below $4.
since then bought a used prius and loving the new mileage. now only costing me $120 AMONTH and driving more miles too. now with the savings get to buy other chit!!! just don't tell my wife......

PS -Jerry you are the man; you have poetically put my feelings into words
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