Corona Virus #8

[pennwalk]

I just looked at the Debt Clock and the projected 2024 US national debt jumped to $34.4 trillion. I don't think our grand kids can pay it off at this rate.

This is where a negative interest rate would come in handy. Think about how much the government would take in at even -.5 percent! We'll all be rich.

Chris

 

[ruffdog]

I just looked at the Debt Clock and the projected 2024 US national debt jumped to $34.4 trillion. I don't think our grand kids can pay it off at this rate.

This is where a negative interest rate would come in handy. Think about how much the government would take in at even -.5 percent! We'll all be rich.

Chris

That's not how it works.

 

[pennwalk]

That's not how it works.

I can dream can't I? Wow no more taxes.:dance1:

Chris

 

[ruffdog]

I can dream can't I? Wow no more taxes.:dance1:

Chris

Yes, we are all in dreamland...........................................:cloud9:

 

[ruffdog]

Ta Mate, we're doing OK... the country's death toll is at 37 right now. FORTRESS TASMANIA is holding strong but, as I've said before (probably in a now 'locked' thread) we've got a moat, being an Island State. And Australia itself has a continental moat too, it's the individual mainland States/Territories that have enacted their own boarder, non-essential travel, restrictions.

She'll be right. :thumbsup:

.....except when a cruise ship docks and lets everyone off without testing them.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241782721.html

 

[ultrarunner]

Gas dropped again to 2.39 gallon of regular.

SF Bay Area.

 

[MossRoad]

Gas dropped again to 2.39 gallon of regular.

SF Bay Area.

I paid $1.27 yesterday. Diesel was $2.55.

 

[MossRoad]

Watch a guy pouring DEF out of a cardboard box with a spout all over his boots at the gas station. YIKES! That doesn't look to be fun.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I wonder if house cats can get it?

Chris

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, study finds
By Sam RaskinApril 3, 2020 | 4:23pm

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, study says

 

[LouNY]

Watch a guy pouring DEF out of a cardboard box with a spout all over his boots at the gas station. YIKES! That doesn't look to be fun.

Must not be a very sharp operator,
I just put 2 boxes worth in mine yesterday,
only spilled a half a dozen drops out of the vent for each box.
Every box I have bought has an extendable flexible pour spout included in the box.
Remove the cap, screw on the spout, extend it, flex it down and place in the def tank nozzle,
rotate up and let it pour, no fuss, no mess.

 

[California]

I paid $1.27 yesterday. Diesel was $2.55.

Inside wall of an outhouse that Dad built out back for the farm laborers in about 1965.

 

[MossRoad]

Inside wall of an outhouse that Dad built out back for the farm laborers in about 1965.

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Nice!

The lowest I ever remember seeing it as a kid was probably 29 cents. The lowest I ever paid was probably around 50 cents, back around 1976-77, right when I started driving.

I've told this story before... back in '77 I was a sophomore in high school, 3 of my friends and I were observing senior skip day 2 years early, and were taking my parents' VW van up to Lake Michigan. Gas at my favorite station was 55 cents. It was 50 cents down the block. My 3 friends and I got into an argument because I wouldn't go to the cheaper station. We put 10 gallons in the tank. It was $5.50. They'd only pony up $1.25 each and made me pay the extra 50 cents myself. So there were were, 4 guys, arguing over 12.5 cents apiece. :laughing:

 

[ruffdog]

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, study finds
By Sam RaskinApril 3, 2020 | 4:23pm

Cats can infect each other with coronavirus, study says

If COVID can move between cats and humans, we will see a surge or two.

 

[lman]

My Dad told me he remembered when it was $.14. I don't know what year that was. He's not around to ask.

 

[ultrarunner]

If COVID can move between cats and humans, we will see a surge or two.

I would also expect to see a huge decline in the feline population.

 

[k0ua]

Nice!

The lowest I ever remember seeing it as a kid was probably 29 cents. The lowest I ever paid was probably around 50 cents, back around 1976-77, right when I started driving.

I've told this story before... back in '77 I was a sophomore in high school, 3 of my friends and I were observing senior skip day 2 years early, and were taking my parents' VW van up to Lake Michigan. Gas at my favorite station was 55 cents. It was 50 cents down the block. My 3 friends and I got into an argument because I wouldn't go to the cheaper station. We put 10 gallons in the tank. It was $5.50. They'd only pony up $1.25 each and made me pay the extra 50 cents myself. So there were were, 4 guys, arguing over 12.5 cents apiece. :laughing:

Hey man, 10 cents would buy you a coca-cola in those days....

 

[k0ua]

My Dad told me he remembered when it was $.14. I don't know what year that was. He's not around to ask.

I saw 15 cents one day during a gas war. When I was a kid it was commonly 17 to 21 cents per gallon. When it got up into the 20's Dad would complain about "gas is getting so dang high" it is all relative. I can remember often dad pulling into a service station and telling the attendant to put in a dollars worth. That was very common.

 

[ultrarunner]

Paid as little as 24.9 at USA self service for my homemade minibike and as much as 4.99 stateside a few years back... maybe Death Valley CA?

Of course in Europe there were times the equivalent gallon was 3 to almost 4 times as much

 

[MossRoad]

My Dad told me he remembered when it was $.14. I don't know what year that was. He's not around to ask.

My mother-in-law who is 80 remembers gas a 15 cents when she was in high school.

 

[MossRoad]

Hey man, 10 cents would buy you a coca-cola in those days....

In the early 70's my best friend and I would get gunny sacks and walk the dirt road behind our neighborhood looking for bottles to cash in for 10 cents apiece. Man, I tell you what! :laughing: Two 9-10 year old kids with 30-40 bottles could get mighty sick on 3-4 dollars worth of candy at the dairy store! :ashamed:

:laughing:

I've tried to explain to my kids what penny candy was.....

"It was candy that cost a penny"

They still don't understand that! :laughing:

"You hand the clerk 1 penny and she hands you back 1 piece of candy"

"You hand the clerk 100 pennies, and she hands you back 50 pieces of candy, a bottle of pop, an ice cream bar, and a bag of chips!"

They stare at me like I'm nuts. :laughing: