The 'Expendable' Lawn Man

[turfquip]

Some of you young guys full of vinegar need to wake up and recognize a few things:

If fuel costs continue to rise, at some point discretionary spending(i.e. lawn service) will have to diminish. Its a simple guns versus butter issue. Will people give up their SUV's before the lawn service? Simply - NO. The need for transportation is precedent.

Mindlessly supporting this administration and their policies is a sign of ignorance. Yes, Clintons and the dems were/are an embarrassment, but think about our valuable assets being expended in Iraq on false pretenses. I support our troops, don't get me wrong.

Pertaining to oil...think about where free enterprise, combined with an administration with oil 'interests' have us now. Oil profits are at an all time high. Oil stocks are good investments. Price gouging? Yep, while cheerleaders like Hannity, Bill Cunningham and other neocons keep us focused on 'freedom' in the Middle East. Those people have been fighting since the beginning of time.

The whole filthy stinking situation is intertwined. A dog and pony show. Smoke and mirrors. Wake up you young pissers!

Don't bother telling me to like it or leave it. I'm not going anywhere.

[topsites]

Very little of that made any sense to me, none of it is anything new, we've always been disposable even in the days of 99cent fuel.

Now an American that loves their SUV is a creature of comfort, a spoiled brat... And a spoiled brat is JUST as likely to keep paying someone else to do the lawn as doing it themselves would mean actual physical labor (ewwwww).

You are correct on the other part, the entire thing with the price of fuel is an influenced scenario. Don't get me wrong the shortage of supply is real but yes, they COULD change things but then it's just not in their best interest. Besides, what's the problem, fuel is only NOW beginning to settle at the price where it should be anyway.

[daveintoledo]

where the cost of fuel shoud be, he knows everthing, remember....

[DUSTYCEDAR]

THE spoiled brats will still have there lawn cut but by the guy with the cheepest price
it is comming and its gonna hurt

[Scapegoat]

Some of you young guys full of vinegar need to wake up and recognize a few things:

If fuel costs continue to rise, at some point discretionary spending(i.e. lawn service) will have to diminish.

Perhaps to some degree, but this depends on the area you service. Where I live all new subdivisions (and most up to 10 years old) are deed restricted communities. If you live in these communities it is REQUIRED that your lawn be kept cut and the properties are all irrigated. Now, if they're young and have the time, sure, some will do it themselves.....however, in my area most residents are elderly and can't be out in our 97+ degree heat mowing their yards each week even if they wanted to. These are also affluent people in subdivisions where the average home price is around $400,000. So regardless what the price of gas goes to, they will pay the going rate for lawn care. And with the amount of growth in my county (2000+ new homes built in 2004) it's not hard to find lawns to mow willing to pay what you charge.

Now I realize, for people in other areas with different types of clients, the price of fuel will have more of an impact.

[rtr]

Some of you young guys full of vinegar need to wake up and recognize a few things:

If fuel costs continue to rise, at some point discretionary spending(i.e. lawn service) will have to diminish. Its a simple guns versus butter issue. Will people give up their SUV's before the lawn service? Simply - NO. The need for transportation is precedent.

Mindlessly supporting this administration and their policies is a sign of ignorance. Yes, Clintons and the dems were/are an embarrassment, but think about our valuable assets being expended in Iraq on false pretenses. I support our troops, don't get me wrong.

Pertaining to oil...think about where free enterprise, combined with an administration with oil 'interests' have us now. Oil profits are at an all time high. Oil stocks are good investments. Price gouging? Yep, while cheerleaders like Hannity, Bill Cunningham and other neocons keep us focused on 'freedom' in the Middle East. Those people have been fighting since the beginning of time.

The whole filthy stinking situation is intertwined. A dog and pony show. Smoke and mirrors. Wake up you young pissers!

Don't bother telling me to like it or leave it. I'm not going anywhere.



LMAO! No matter how many times I hear/see this tired old line, it never gets old! LOL! How was woodstock? Anyway you really have no clue what your saying regarding Oil profits/price gouging. Damn the Man!! payup payup payup payup

[NattyLawn]

LMAO! No matter how many times I hear/see this tired old line, it never gets old! LOL! How was woodstock? Anyway you really have no clue what your saying regarding Oil profits/price gouging. Damn the Man!! payup payup payup payup

No offense rtr, but he's right....Glad you think its funny when you pay 4 bucks a gallon....

[milo]

i love the people who think the cost of gas does not bother them. i have a nissan and a mazda as our family cars that do 20 to 25 mpg in the city and it still bothers me. $34.00 to fill a 99 altima. now that just is not right. i could remember when it was $18.50 to fill. and when gas in the ninty's was .85 cents a gallon.. wow the good old days. lol

[Runner]

The whole economy is going to crash. Don't believe me? Just watch. It's coming.

[kc2006]

The whole economy is going to crash. Don't believe me? Just watch. It's coming.

I agree. The situation with the hurricane is going to put a huge spanking on the economy, then when the idiots keep sticking it to us with fuel prices get up to 4 or 5 bucks a gallon and people realize they can't afford to drive to work its all gunna go down hill. payup we're f'd

[turfquip]

Some of you believe your area is immune from reductions in demand for lawn services? WHAT A JOKE.

You obviously don't understand the enormity of this situation. You are one policy change away from extinction and you better wake up.

Example...what if the president orders a complete moratorium on non essential fuel uses i.e. landscape equipment? He may have to in the coming days. After all, it won't hurt for lawns to go to seed for a year or two. If he was smart he would do it just to allay public panic.

You see, our economy is like a house of cards. Think about the fuel situation in Atlanta. What if Delta goes out in Atlanta...real estate values collapse..on and on. This situation is very fragile. The tentacles of this disaster reach out far and wide in every direction.

Believe this...we are one event away from total chaos - nation wide. This would be the perfect time for a terror event in another major city - or - heaven forbid a major earthquake on the west coast.

Me? I'm heading for Dicks this afternoon for a couple cases of 12 Guage shells. Stocking up you might say ;)

[Lumberjack]

Your assuming there is an actuall fuel shortage.......

[kc2006]

I highly doubt theres a real fuel shortage, its just the big dogs are playing it smart, just another way to stick it to us, this time they put sand on it first.

[chimmygew]

So what everyone is saying is I should go out and buy a bunch of the old push reel mowers huh?

[milo]

i agree . when watching the history channel, they say we have 15 to 25 years of oil left.. thats it... i cannot beleave that more auto companys and things are not making other things we can run things on. or i really think the government knows they can make them and now just killing us till the oil is gone.. well till it is all gone live it up. cant wait till i pay $10.00 a gallon. it might be sooner than you think..when the oil is all gone i think there will be the next real big war... and i mean big. so live it up.. lol ;)

[qualitylandscaping]

Gas prices jump $1.00 since yesterday just because of a hurricane? You would think they would put their big fancy refineries in a place that wouldn't get hurricanes?

Ya I feel bad for the people going through the disaster.. But it is a hurricane prone area, and **** happens.. If you want to live there, suffer the concequences.. Scared of tornados and don't want to live through one, you might want to reconsider your move to tornado alley..

This country needs to grow some nuts and be real.. No more BS

[fastcutter]

Gas prices is Total B/S...

[djlawn]

Well fortunately the price is just going up around here. The big problem is the supply and demand thing. There are areas that truly have very low supplies of gas if they even have them. What is happening is that if they do have fuel the price is very high. However nationally complictaing the problem is that the oil companies are sending fuel from places that don't have a shortage to areas that do. They are capitalizing on the high prices in the areas that have shortages, which automatically creates shortages in the areas that didn't and raises the prices in those areas as well. But if you think about the whole thing in Iraq, the price of plywood doubled when we started "rebuilding" Iraq becasue supply was down and demand was up. Bush is running this country into the ground because of his "War on Terror". Great idea, however it is like the "War on Crime" that you are simply never going to win. If everybody has such a problem with fuel prices, we simply need to start using less fuel.
The biggest problem I see is that if we do have a fuel shortage because of the lack of unrefined fuel it is going to skyrocket prices and possibly create rationing. Also if prices continue to climb people will start to mow their lawns by themselves to save on money. It is pinching everybody's wallet. We just have to stick it out and hope it gets better.

[djlawn]

I forgot to add that while we are complaining about the fuel prices, don't forget that we still have our businesses and families. The families in the areas destroyed by Katrina need our support. We still have it made compared to them.

[Scapegoat]

I forgot to add that while we are complaining about the fuel prices, don't forget that we still have our businesses and families. The families in the areas destroyed by Katrina need our support. We still have it made compared to them.

No doubt. If the only thing you have to whine about in your life is the price of gas, then you're doing just fine.

[lawnman_scott]

Gas prices jump $1.00 since yesterday just because of a hurricane? You would think they would put their big fancy refineries in a place that wouldn't get hurricanes?

Ya I feel bad for the people going through the disaster.. But it is a hurricane prone area, and **** happens.. If you want to live there, suffer the concequences.. Scared of tornados and don't want to live through one, you might want to reconsider your move to tornado alley..

This country needs to grow some nuts and be real.. No more BSAnd this would help lower prices how? Piping the oil from the gulf to wherever????

[lawnman_scott]

Some of you believe your area is immune from reductions in demand for lawn services? WHAT A JOKE.

You obviously don't understand the enormity of this situation. You are one policy change away from extinction and you better wake up.

Example...what if the president orders a complete moratorium on non essential fuel uses i.e. landscape equipment? He may have to in the coming days. After all, it won't hurt for lawns to go to seed for a year or two. If he was smart he would do it just to allay public panic.

Me? I'm heading for Dicks this afternoon for a couple cases of 12 Guage shells. Stocking up you might say ;)
Ok well you are obviously nuts, I find it scary that you own a gun. A ban on non essential fuel will stop public panic??????????? How about it will create it. The "fuel shortage" is because of idiots getting gas they dont need, panic buying.