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<p>Where is “around here”, ebeeeee? Why are eggs so much more there than virtually anywhere else?</p>
<p>Central CA. No idea why it is soooo ridiculous…and that is our local market.</p>
<p>^^Eggs cost half that much or less here in the San Diego area.</p>
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One of the reasons is that the ‘new’ diesel fuel is more refined than the ‘old’ diesel fuel so that it’ll burn much cleaner. This is what makes the new diesels viable - the old ones wouldn’t make it past emissions regulations. ‘UCBChemegrad’ might have some good input here.</p>
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I thought that’s where most of our chickens were raised?
Honestly, I have no idea how much an egg costs.</p>
<p>Holy chicken! ebeeeee, I thought you were from HI - their food prices are ridiculously high. I have to say, if eggs were so expensive in my neck of the woods, it would be a good thing, since it would make me cut down my cholesterol intake. I love eggs…</p>
<p>barrons, again I’m with you. I think I gotta go pump some iron to develop the muscle to be able to hold that bag. I have a feeling it’s going to be a much heavier one than the Enron’s one.</p>
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<p>At Ralphs in La Jolla, about $2.49/dozen.</p>
<p>I used to trade Cal-Maine Foods which is an egg company. They went up 800% in 2004 and then plunged over the next year. They went from $2.50 to $22.50, down to $6 and then to $40 and they’re in the low $30s now. It’s been a good company to hedge egg prices (chuckle) over the years. I used to follow daily egg prices from the Dept of Ag website. I wasn’t able to locate the site again.</p>
<p>I just asked my wife how much we pay for them and she said $2.69 for “omega-3 eggs”. I assume that these are some kind of natural or premium egg.</p>
<p>The day I pay $5.49 for a dozen eggs is the day I begin to raise my own chickens !!</p>
<p>Holy moly that is a lot to pay for eggs !!</p>
<p>We are at a time of the year where I have to drive my vehicle instaed of my daughter’s Scion. I have a 2002 Landcruiser. I can ride my bike to my office / store , but not to my location 10 miles away. We are stuck with the SUV because of college ( own it, no payments )
The dilemma is , so we take two under 25 yr old drivers cars off the road to save insurance from Sept to April ( NJ one of the highest auto insurance rates in the country ) ?
Or do we take my SUV off the road and we share cars ?</p>
<p>I have read a few articles that hint at a sort of bottoming out with oil / gas prices and I would like to think it is true.
I can’t help but think back to the 70’s gas crisis and how it shaped my decision to buy a little Corolla in the early eighties.</p>
<p>Also , having relatives that pay close to $ 15 a litre for gas in Sweden, I find the Bush bashing and blaming a really lame argument ):</p>
<p>Less than $2.00 for a dozen eggs in Kentucky. It costs significantly more if you want the non-toxic ones that weren’t infused with human growth hormones and antibiotics, and came from non-abused, cage-free chickens! I generally opt for the latter and we simply eat fewer eggs than we used to.</p>
<p>Don’t forget that even at $5.49 per dozen, you can still make a 3-egg omelet with cheese for about $2.00.</p>
<p>$15 a litre? Time to start digging in the back yeard.</p>
<p>Now I see why Mayor Daley is in favor of us being able
a couple of hens in our yards.</p>
<p>^We call them “yard birds”. ;)</p>
<p>Even tho we held vastly different opinions before, I am very worried like you, Poetsheart. There has never been anything like the convergence of risks we faced now, on so many fronts.</p>
<p>To reduce demand I do have a radical idea - every one who has car(s) registered gets a ration card, entitles him to X gals per year. If he used above that amt, the pump is tricked to kick in an additional high-consumer surcharge. This should discourage indiscriminate use of this dwindling resource. To allow for exception, the quota canbe appealed and liberal judgment will be applied. You can have your quota lifted if you prove you need to commute long distances to work, or is part of your business to travel. And temporary lift is granted for one-time personal use like I am helping my D move to N.Caroline for her graduate studies. A cottage industry may grow - think of extra cash for college students who sells their unused ration cards - that’s allright, because the end result is change of consumer habbit and the type of vehicles we should practically drive.</p>
<p>In fact, drivers should be asked to fill out an application showing how much they drive each day and for what purpose. Spot checks are made for accuracy and huge fine / imprisonment / revoke future ration cards is assessed for violators. Yes we will build in a liberal mileage for personal use. But anything above that you are taking precise national resources and if you still want to use it you have to pay a surcharge.</p>
<p>^^Our water bill as well as the combined PSE bill are structured like your “ration card”. Go above a certain number of units, and the price per unit skyrockets. It really sucks in the summer when I have to water my plants, but in the winter I enjoy paying just $15/month for my water.</p>
<p>Who wants to set up another government agency to oversee these cards - the homeland gas security department?</p>
<p>It would be simpler for the government agencies that collect property or vehicle taxes to add a weight component to annual taxes. This would have the additional fairness metric of charging users with vehicles that cause more wear and tear to our roads.</p>
<p>This is a forum full of very intelligent educated people, did anyone see this (high energy costs - not just gas, but our utility bills doubled as well) coming ?</p>
<p>For those who foresaw our current situation did you take any action to mitigate the risk ? For eg. drive energy efficient cars, live an energy efficient life-style, invest in oil and gas companies ?</p>
<p>I can definitely see the effect this is having on sort-of-unrelated industries.</p>
<p>I bus tables at a chain restaurant with $10-$20 entrees, and all of us there have noticed a decline in customers over the past year. In our middle class town, a restaurant like ours is more of a “special occasion” kind of place, or somewhere to go maybe once or twice a month. But now, even for that kind of thing, I think we are too expensive for economy-weary residents.</p>
<p>I’m just glad I have a job for this summer, though. Hardly any of my friends have been able to find one, and I only got this one because I worked there last summer.</p>
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I did (about 18 months ago, when oil was increasing steadily). I read up thoroughly on Peak Oil at that point in time. Energy is absolutely the best field to be in right now if you are a young college grad. And I’m not just referring to oil. I see a <em>lot</em> of options in terms of coal/nuclear/wind electricity generation.</p>
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As a new college grad I had the option to actually tailor myself to be low cost.</p>
<p>Live close to work (less than 3 miles).
Live far under my means (saving in excess of 50% of take home income).
Renting a room (utilities included).</p>
<p>Not take any additional debt (holding off on buying a new car). Current car is a 160hp Honda Prelude.
I might be breaking that rule if I see a killer deal for a foreclosed house.</p>
<p>“This is a forum full of very intelligent educated people, did anyone see this (high energy costs - not just gas, but our utility bills doubled as well) coming ?”</p>
<p>I did. Near the end of 2000. It was a perfect storm of weather, power problems on the west coast and middle-east turmoil.</p>
<p>“For those who foresaw our current situation did you take any action to mitigate the risk ? For eg. drive energy efficient cars, live an energy efficient life-style, invest in oil and gas companies ?”</p>
<p>I wrote an investment newsletter recommending precious metals and energy stocks for several months in 2001. I stopped as it was taking too much of my time and as many other writers came in as commodities bottomed. One thing that I’ve learned in the trading community is that some people can spot trends forming way ahead of the crowd. What I like is a good group of people that can bounce ideas around - this is hard to find as traders are frequently crude and argumentative.</p>
<p>We bought our car in 2000 and it has about 155K miles on it. I’d say that it was fuel-efficient for the time (28 MPG, 30 yesterday on a trip to the beach) compared to minivans and SUVs but we only bought it because the minivan that I thought we wanted was backordered with no discounts available. I like to buy things when they aren’t in big demand so that I can get a discount.</p>
<p>We live in a pretty small place and had paid it off in the 1990s and it means that we have low property taxes, heating bills, water bills, electricity bills, etc. We don’t have cable tv or cell-phone plans as I like to minimize cash flows outward.</p>