Have rising gas prices affected your crappie fishing?
I spent three times more money on gasoline than I did on food this month. If this keeps up I may not be able to afford to go crappie fishing. I have a small fuel effecient truck and a small alumimun boat which helps me.
I just wonder how you all with larger vehicles and large boat motors can afford to fish at these prices?
Won't cut back my fishing
I'm not happy about the high gasoline prices, but I won't let it cut back on my fishing. I may have to do without some other luxuries to keep the tank full, but my fishing won't be affected. Gas was $1.84 today here in Missouri.
I don't mean to stick up for the oil companies - they've got us all "over a barrel" and I'm sure they could sell their product a lot cheaper if they wanted to.
Still, I read that gas in 1981 was the equivalent of $2.99 a gallon (figured in 2004 dollars). 'Way back when I was in high school (1963), gas for my '56 Chevy cost me about 32.9 cents a gallon. At the time I was flippin' hamburgers for minimum wage of $1 an hour. So a gallon of gas at that time cost me roughly 1/3 of an hour's work at minimum wage (and I thought I was rich).
High school kids now are making a minimum wage of about $6 an hour, and 1/3 of that would be about $2 a gallon for gas. So - maybe gasoline prices haven't changed much in all those years.
I'm a lot more concerned about the growth of HEALTH CARE costs and TAXES figured as a percentage of people's income. There's some extortion going on in those areas that makes the oil companies look like pretty good guys by comparison. - Sam