Along with the spiraling deficit, fuel prices have doubled in the last 3
years and dragged everything with it. There's nothing that gets to the
consumer without the use of fossil fuels - often more than once - for
instance, a shipboard container, goes on a train then to a truck.
I won't go into the vast fuel reserves we have within our borders - it's
been well explained in the past -- with an halfway decent energy plan
this country could be energy independent in a few years...
LarryT
91 300D
On 6/1/2012 8:17 AM, Gerry Archer wrote:
Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> writes:
I'm shocked at how much the price of tires has gone up the past
couple of years.
Everything is going up. When you get all those extra trillions of
dollars our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have been
obligated to pay chasing the same amount of goods, the price of things
has to go up.
Yeah but it seems that tires have not just gone up, they've about
doubled since I last shopped (a couple of years ago).
Allan
1983 300D
1979 300SD
Tire Rack and similar websites seem to have the best prices, but
around here at least, the dealers charge higher prices for mounting
the mailorder tires such that little or nothing is saved by ordering
them.
I've seen several simple tire changing machines at Harbor Freight and
other sources. Have you or others had any experience with them? I
seem to remember prices in the $150 range for the machines which would
be paid for after mounting two sets of tires. Balancing can be done by
using a hub clamped in a vice and lubricated with very light oil. Did
that in years gone by.
Gerry
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