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You should have learned in mid-70s? I have seen pictues of folks standing in line for gas. I hope you got $10,000 and not $1,000 for that tank. Can you imagine that some people are ignorant enough to think gas will or should cost < equivalent amt. of fancy "spring water" again. Some countries like Iran demand payment for oil in Euro or Swiss Franks and not USD. Add to that increased demand from countries like China, India,....that have been lifted out of poverty by US business class. We really didn't need that cheap shit from China did we?

eightbore: Confused and curious as to how many and what kind of Parkers you were able to invest in with the $1000 you got for your late model Suburban? TT

If the price of oil keeps rising, it will continue to have a detrimental effect on the economy as a whole (hole?). I think that means just about all used guns in the U.S. that have little marketability outside the U.S. (or it's impracticable to market them outside the U.S.) will eventually fall in value. Sure, the high end will be the last to fall in value and the first to rise in value, just like realestate, IMO.

Glen Lowellthorne..That "middle of nowhere" you talk about produces abut 80% of the wheat in this country, and much of the edible beans, sunflowers etc. We dont grow much corn for ethanol, cost of production is VERY high and transport is a problem. You people in the east are fortunate to live in rent controlled or subsidized housing, get food stamps and other publice assistance. The west coast guys live off the taxpayer by working for aerospace companies., and overhead bloated contracts....Read that carefully, because it as much a wrong generalization as the crap I read about farmers. We are ALL faced with problems in this country.......Dig in

The last 1000.00 Parker I looked at was well past the beater stage of life. Maybe ol'8b has put his riches into the tank too many times, and is taking less condition now!

Nice graded ones seem to cost 6k or more now. Last intro grade Spartan? 12br in nice original condition and unturned screws went for $2200.

Nope, Jager, it was not $10,000, it was $1,000, and I don't remember what I did with the money. Regardless of whether we should accept $4.00 gas as reasonable, changing over to a vehicle that uses half what the Suburban did results in "real savings". I went on the road for the last few days and I wish I had taken a picture of every Suburban in a front yard with a for sale sign. Where I live, a brand new $40,000 Suburban is usually a third or fourth vehicle in a family, but the older ones are in the hands of real working people and are of no use to them at ten miles per gallon.

eightbore, I don't think there's an alternative to accepting $4 gas. We're looking at $5.50 here (for the larger gallon) and anticipating $6.70 as the norm. We have no choice in the matter. The primaries' political pandering of a summer-break was absolute madness. Only higher taxes and prices can get us out of the mess we've made for ourselves. Those with lower incomes are already hurting badly here.

King, I just wish my wife would have allowed me to keep the 454 as kind of a memorial to my youth. If I had a gun I couldn't afford to feed, I could hide it in a safe, but the Suburban would be kind of obvious sitting behind the asparagus. It was some great car, once hauled nearly two tons of lead and ammunition without a trailer. I gave exact change to a toll attendant on the PA Turnpike before she realized I was overweight and owed more money. I said "thank you", stepped on the gas as she stepped out of the booth, arms flailing. Luckily, they never came after me.

I think I saw your picture in a Post Office, "wanted, for toll evasion"