Have You Seen The New Five Dollar Bill?

Tell me about it!!!! And that will be ridiculous!!! lol! Thanks for the comments!

I would feel bad for ya, but those prices are good here in California. Here, you really gotta shop around to get those deals!!!! LOL! gas here is between $3.80-3.89 depending on what city you are in, how close to the freeway you are, and how far away from civilization you are. LOL! Milk is like 2 gallons for like $10 (if you are lucky) and bread is around $3.75 and up. It is so ridiculous!!! A dozen eggs…$4.00!!! And, the price of rice just sky rocketed because of a “shortage”.

Seems like sooooo many shortages happened under Dub-ya. It’s what happens when a President cares more about getting richer rather than running a country. And, the sad part….we let him do it…twice!!!

Water is $21.00/gal. Where????

wow, some places here are over four bucks, but only in the ritzy areas, not yet in the suburbs…but it is getting there! yikes! it is a luxury just to drive to the gas station to get more gas!!! lol!

dang!!!! it is everywhere! i think it is time for all of us to get hybrid cars!!!! lol!

I will re-add it! Thanks, man!

Juilee, I know that at times it seems that us Americans are whining and complaining about our prices going up when things are much more xpensixe either you way you cross the ocean. However, we don’t have things like universal health care or tax breaks or even great government aid programs. Our minimum wage sucks, unemployment has sky rocketed, and so many people are losing their houses and cars everyday. It is really bad. Sure, it is more expensive for gas in other countries and so other countries don’t understand. But, when gas prices jump by the dollars in just s few years, that is scary! It is not what we are used to and many of us cannot afford it on what we make per hour at our jobs and there are so many of us who have tried to find jobs and there are not any. I used to have a awesome job and now I cannot get that same job for the same price anymore all because of our dear President! But, you know what… I now want to move down under…you all seem like a ton a fun with a great economy and beautiful land! Lucky!!! Here is California our livelihoods depends on driving cars. I wish I were in Australia or the UK right now! Your governments have it going on! Ours needs to learn from yours! LOL! True. True. :o) Thanks for the comment! Cheers!

Use a touch less? Our livelihoods depends on it, especially in the state of California. See, that is another thing that many other countries do not understand either. When the developers in your countries decided to build cities, they did it properly. Here in the U.S. (especially California), it is based on what is “cheaper” to do. So our cities where laid out with poor planning and sporadically and there is so much suburb here that it public transportation is useless and not really a viable option unless one works in the city and takes the metrolink. If you work out in the desert or beach areas or in the suburbs or the foothills, then you are screwed because in order to get there by bus, you have to leave like six hours early and take six different buses to get to your destination. Here EVERYONE needs a car to survive, and, thusly, everyone needs GAS! We don;t have a big choice. I lived in London for a semester and was impressed about how easily I could get around town WITHOUT a car and how efficient their public transportation is and it spoiled me! I came home and was so bummed that our systems is ridiculous! I hope that helps you to better understand that we are not just a society who uses so much gas because that is just how we roll, no…the last generation was not wise in who they voted into government office and those people made poor choices and now, the new generation are all paying for it through no fault of our own. :o)

Okay, but you cannot compare our two countries because yours has a strong economy right now. Ours is crap. There are no jobs. Our dollar is worthless. So to say that we are still paying lower for gas is s gross misunderstanding because while you are paying higher, you all can afford it. We don’t make enough to afford much of the prices that have gone sky high here and that is why people are losing everything…because we work hard but make poor wages. It sucks. The only people here who are making money are the rich. The middle class is the last class here.

Wow… for having all those issues you guys seem to handle it well! We could learn a lot from you all!!! I did not know so many things were bad there too. I’m sorry that we gave you guys bad planning examples…truly, it is very poor and pathetic planning on our parts and I don’t know what those engineers were thinking! LOL!

Also, no, i live i a two story house…a small house would not work for us because there are six people in the house due to the fact that four of us cannot afford to buy houses or rent apartments at the moment. That is how a lot of places are around here now… houses are full with people because no one can afford one by themselves. Most children are not moving out until their twenties or thirties because it is too expensive to even rent! It is sad.

But this should not be a “well in our country…this and this” type debate. I was making my assumptions based on what others who lived in your country have told me. Maybe they live in a different part as it is a big place like here? It seems like a great place to live because of so many good reasons that i have been told. Here, I would never recommend people living (in California that is) because it is horrible right now. So many people are moving to Texas! LOL! But, just like I should not base my presumptions on a few chats with people, you really should not base your presumptions on graphs and data that represent the country as whole. Our country is huge and people who live in New York, as opposed to Florida or Alaska or Hawaii or California all live very different lives because it is completely different and the demands and some of the laws and economies are much different…that is what we get for being so capitalistic, which I hate about us. Here we are more affected by gas price gouging than say New York is, bu New York is way more affected when taxi cab drivers strike and we are like “okay, so they are striking…” Not everywhere is like it is in California (and it is even different in the north, where the transportation system is much better than here in LA).

Trust me, we are not simply “whining” , as most other countries would have people believe we are. People watch “The O.C.” or “The Hills” and think that that is how it is here, but it is not. The truth is, that it actually costs a lot of money here to go “green”, to “conserve”, and to not “consume energy”... and, after all, we are all about what is “cheaper” here. It seems like here, “conservation” is something that rich people do to make themselves feel better. LOL! Isn’t that sad? Ugh. We need to get our acts together, huh!!! LOL!

BTW, I am all for going green and conserving, but when places make a “green” shopping bag and then turn around and sell it for $5.99 because recycling and conserving is “trendy”, then that is a sad-sad commentary on our country… thanks Paris Hilton!!! LOL!

it was so crazy!!!!! it made me so mad!!! lol! i am glad that now it has gone down a little, but still!!! i think i am going to vote for that prop 1A so that we can get some trains going because that would be so much better! :)