O/T The new five dollar bill

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:54 am

Yeah ... they're paying my salary in those now!

diesel · Post by **diesel** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:12 am

If you think about it that's not funny at all.

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:31 am

OUCH!!!!!!!!

Digger · Post by **Digger** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:45 am

It wont be long before thats true.

Toast · Post by **Toast** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:51 am

do you remember those days when you filled up the 5 gallon can for mowing the yard and it was under $5...

now you need a $20 bill...

WAB · Post by **WAB** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:22 pm

What are you paying for a gallon?
Us lucky Canadians are now sitting around the $4.50 per us gallon.

LV2HNT · Post by **LV2HNT** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:03 pm

I paid 3.19 a gallon the other day. It cost 73.00 to fill up my truck.

Gas will probably continue to rise too. I have collected 10 of those bills in the last two weeks. I thought they were new too but they were printed in 2005. They probably arn't worth the paper they are printed on unfortunately.

I work in Washington DC, and today I watched a whole bunch of truckers drive around in circles through the city while laying on their horns, in protest of a bunch of issues concerning them, one of which was the gas prices. It lasted for about two hours. It was pretty cool to hear all those air horns going off at once. Pretty sad too though.

Big John · Post by **Big John** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:00 pm

I remember paying $1.17 a litrte last summer going to my place up North.
Still cheaper right now. But I don't like it. I'm heading back up on the 26 th. of April. It's usually 5 to 7 cents mopre up there . Need it to come home, so they got ya.

wabi · Post by **wabi** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:21 pm

Toast wrote:do you remember those days when you filled up the 5 gallon can for mowing the yard and it was under $5...

now you need a $20 bill...

Hate to admit it, but I can remember buying 3 gallons for under $1.00

$3.34/gal here today - that's 3 gallons for just over $10.00!!!!!!!!!
That's a 1000% increase in price since I owned my first car.

TYE · Post by **TYE** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:23 pm

It's depressing.

N8tr Boy · Post by **N8tr Boy** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:29 pm

Seven years ago put monies into a mutual fund with Gold, CDN $, hydro and oil. Was a GREAT idea, didn't think anything like this would happen. I feel the pinch now but the retirement should be good.
Almost tripled my initial investment. Not bad.
Mark

mtbyak · Post by **mtbyak** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:34 pm

I remember putting $5.00 in the tank of my '69 Ford Galaxy 500 with a 302ci V8 & going back & forth to school all week

Shoot Straight
Kirk

Bow Life · Post by **Bow Life** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:26 pm

I wish i rememberd those days. My memories are of putting $110 into my dodge and getting about 350km.

I still drive the truck tho cause i love it and dont go that far.

DrDan · Post by **DrDan** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:31 am

What's pretty sad is the fact that all costs are going up as a result of this. Just check on food price increases in the past 6 to 8 months. Oh well when people can't afford to eat then the problem will be resolved. It's called "revolution"! A hungry stomach has no conscience... Not a single incumbent will be reelected.

dick195252 · Post by **dick195252** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:49 am

Well i Did Not VOTE for this IDIOT President but he got reelected some how