DADvocate

Good afternoon, sir. We have a little in common. I have read through parts of your blog, and love it.
Until a few years ago, I lived in the southern Appalachian hills, in northeast Tennessee. Though from the central east coast, and unfortunately back there now, I sure do miss those hills. Babbling brooks, forests, wildlife, no state income tax, no personal property tax, except on real property. And even at that, it was reasonable. Lots of hardwood available at a pretty good price, too.
I am a divorced dad who raised his kids. I don't have much because of the sacrifices necessary, but the rewards are ineffable. Fuel has dropped to $1.95 a gallon here in eastern VA, depending on the station you go to. Beats the tar out of $3.00 plus. I've seen a couple of your posts on another site, and thought I'd come here. Hope you don't mind.
 

you should try living in the UK, we pay the same as you do.. for a litre, that you pay for a gallon..

of course 47% of that goes to the government in taxes..
 

http://www.petrolprices.com/search.html?search=wa10

check this site out.. uk petrol prices..
 

rek - thanks for coming by. Does sound like we have a lot in common.

Mercurior - gas prices in England and elsewhere in Europe sure makes us in the U.S. sound like a bunch of cry babies. We drive a lot in our daily lives. A practice I don't think we can keep up or should.
 

Yeah, enjoy living in your utopian paradise, Mr. No $2+-A-Gallon-Land. I had some friends who went to Chicago back in the fall, and they declared, upon getting back to South Georgia, that the Empire State of the South has the highest gasoline prices of the trip. But not much can be said, in Georgia when they say we pay a little extra so we can have paved roads, they mean it.

Swinging through the Gulf States repeatedly as I do, I must declare that any gasoline below $2 a gallon would cause my jaw to drop.

I absolutely love knowing that gasoline is cheaper 700 miles to the north of a state where it is domestically produced or unloaded off the boats it was imported on...and we don't even have the roads (or levees) to explain why.
 

Don't worry, I had to pay $1.91 today. Drat!!
 

Don't worry, I had to pay $1.91 today. Drat!!
 

my mum had to pay about $9 saturday. for a gallon,
 

mercuior - I guess you're only consolation is that, since England is fairly small geographically, one usually doesn't have to drive very far to get where they are going.

PS. - The place where I've been being gas the last few times has an extra low price because it just opened. But still the typical price is only about 5 - 10 cents more per gallon.
 

not really, the main prob is traffic jams, which burn more petrol, and cause more pollution, trying to use the m25 is hell, trying to get into liverpool you can be looking for 1 hour in a traffic jam.. mum drives 30-40 miles a day to get to and from her job, some drive more that 80 a day..
 

I drive 120 miles a day which is ridiculous. But, my ex-wife lives in a small town and we share child custody. The kids pretty much stay with whomever they wish whenever they wish and this seems to work quite well. The kids do very well in school, sports, etc. Unfortunately, the only decent paying job I could find was in Cincinnati, Ohio, 60 miles away. Small towns usually don't have much demand for computer programmers.