$105 oil

[elhigh]

When I moved to this little town with my itty tiny yard, I sold the Murray rider and got an electric mower. It gets the job done, but it tends to burn out the switches fairly regularly.

Electric weed trimmer too - works great. Generating and transmission efficiencies aside, it's still way more energy efficient to use electric grass cutters than gas powered.

Next step: kill the entire yard and reseed with buffalo grass. It only grows about 6" high and then stops - or so I'm told. No cutting required. Gotta love that.

[Peakster]

Originally Posted by igo

a new record. $139.89 and the day is not over yet.

Absolute Insanity.

[Johnny Mullet]

Muhahahahahahaaaaa! It's the beginning of the end! Muhahahahahahhaaa!

Seriously, these prices are getting crazy. Maybe we will luck out in the future and end up with a fuel glut and the prices will drop back down to $1.59 per gallon.

Maybe not.

[igo]

Originally Posted by Peakster

Absolute Insanity.

Weird, it shot way up in the morning and then went down later. It is still high ($134), just not that high. I bet we break another all-time high this week.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by elhigh

Next step: kill the entire yard and reseed with buffalo grass. It only grows about 6" high and then stops - or so I'm told. No cutting required. Gotta love that.

Not quite, but close. I have a patch (mixed with other types of native/low water grasses) out back, in an area that's gradually getting converted to something like a shortgrass prairie. It does stay short, but old stems tend to mat up, so it doesn't really green up until about June. I will probably go to running the mower (electric, of course) across it once a year, in the fall - can't do it in spring because of all the bulbs &c. Or maybe just invite the neighbors' horses over for a snack.

[ebacherville]

sheep are looking like a good lawn care investment, then eat them at the end of the season.. th city councle would probably fine me .. but id have my grass mowed like they insist and id have some food for the long cold winter

[igo]

$140.39

Oil jumps above $140 on OPEC, Libya comments - Yahoo! News

[LostCause]

Cue the ominous drumming...

- LostCause

[ttoyoda]

Weird, it shot way up in the morning and then went down later. It is still high ($134), just not that high. I bet we break another all-time high this week.

The oscillation will get stronger before the crash. Obviously the market does not know the state of supply and demand every 15 minutes. They are speculating.

[ebacherville]

yeah and I heard a comment on MSNBC that OPEC was saying somthing about $170 a barrel in the near future..

wow the CRX at 50+ mpg is looking like its going to be a gas guzzler at these prices.. Maybe ill need to do a enclosed 50cc moped.. that will bring my use down to about 3-4 gallons a week.. my commute would double in time at 30 mph.. but $10 gas doesn't look to far off in the future..