That's pretty funny Ron.
I have to admit that it's gotten to the point that it's affecting the way I plan my fishing activities. Was gonna go to Carthage tomorrow but have rethought that. Last week it occurred to me that at $3.00/gallon in my boat that works out to at best about a $1.00/mile in gas alone. Kinda throws a wet blanket on things when stuff like that creeps into my mind.
It's all just business and in a free market economy it's collectively agreed, tacitly anyway, that merchants can do whatever the market will bear (excluding emergency supplies following a natural disaster in some cases) but it still sticks in my craw that prices go up in increments of $0.10/gallon, and
quickly but drop in $0.01 increments
slowly . The government doesn't belong here if we are to remain a free society in a free market economy as opposed to a socialist society.
I guess that collectively speaking the pain threshold just isn't high enough yet to force a change. When it is, it will happen. The law of supply and demand rules all in a capitalist economy.
We're extremely fortunate that going fishing (recreationally) is even an option irrespective of gas prices..it would be different if we were trying to feed the family day to day using a hand line wrapped around a can lately. Not to mention that we have safe warm/cool homes, clean water, more or less whatever we want to eat at attainable prices, our kids are probably safer than anyone else's in the world and if we really truly get in a bind there is almost always someone/someway to get some help if we will just make the effort to help ourselves.
Oooppss....off my soap box now.
Life is short! Go catch a bunch.
