Sunday, January 17, 2016

There's more to life than low gas prices? What could it be!

In this post i'm gonna show you three things, from 1 ranked easy, to 2 ranked medium, 3 hard, and if i have enough time, 4 is "extra" .  When i get to 4 bear in mind that only those who have been investing or have talked to a friend that is a professional should be used.  4 is NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

1.  What now?  Save money.  Assuming that you want to better yourself.  saving money is a very good idea right now.  I determined that by gas prices in my area being LITERALLY half the price they used to be. This is a good calculation that i will clean up later, but i estimate that if you lived in an area that was averaging $3.19/gal of gas and now is around a bit higher than half of that (at time of writing it was $1.60 here), then HAVE THE AMBITION to save about $10 a month.  Or use that $10 a month somewhere, but it's pretty clear that you have extra money.!  Not only is saving money a great idea, it's kind of necessary.  I'd stick it in the bank in a savings account.  The economy is hurting, and it's important to "bolster" for two reasons:  1.  if you have anything in the market i.e. stocks,/bonds/mutual funds, you lost $10 already.  Make up for that or you are bing "pennywise pound foolish".  SEE MY OTHER POSTS ON HOW TO SAVE MONEY!

INVERSE! Can Gas actually be too low?

Around 2004 i was studying Japanese.  The class was pretty strict, pretty fun, but everyone knew that you couldn't dawdle on your cell phone.  We were committed bright youngsters wanting jobs that involved the Japanese language!  Every day was intense and focused!  Except one day.

It was a blizzard.  I live in the upper midwest, and it gets quite cold.  Half the class wasn't even at the location.  It may be difficult to explain, but we were all pretty low on motivation because the alpha learners that Dr. Sensei enjoyed taunting and mentioning were not there and so it was chaotic, with a little bit of Japanese.  i.e. "The normal rules did not apply that day".

While i do hope that these low gas prices do apply longer than "one day", the example is that the inverse of things can occur in most anything.

WHAT IS NORMAL:  High gas, therefore i hypermile to reduce my gas consumption and save money/not rely on foreign oil etc.

WHAT IS ABNORMAL:  right now.

I'd rather not go on about "oh my i didn't even believe it could get below $2 gas in my area, or "this gas is extremely low" because we've probably had that conversation with our family members.

What do talk about now?  the economy.

I'm not an expert but i do believe the economy is in stagnation/deflation, i.e. bad stuff!  Even if you don't own stocks, you probably have some money in the bank.  Maybe you have a friend that has a retirement fund or a mutual fund.  Or stocks.  THAT FRIEND is "feeling the pinch at the PORTFOLIO LINE".

yes that's right.  people are not losing money due to high gas prices like we saw in the early 2000s.  They are losing money in the stock market!

Is there a solution!!?????  What do i do with all this extra time i had focusing on hypermiling?

to be continued!!!