[ SECRET POST #2319 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2319 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Slum Cat - Ernest Seton Thompson]


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[Mass Effect]


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[The Hunger Games]


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[Ib]


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[Family Guy]


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[The West Wing]


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[Labyrinth]


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Comments

Re: How much do you pay for gas? (Anonymous replies please!)

[(Anonymous)]

Gas costs $3.65 a gallon where I live, but it's 85 octane, not 87 (the lowest octane in most of the US and Europe, and also the octane that the media in the US is referring to when they talk about gas prices). 87 octane costs $3.89 a gallon here. Our highest octane is 91 which costs $4.05 a gallon and is the most commonly used because most people own cars that are less than ten years old.

Cost of living is otherwise pretty low but it's on a steep rise the last two years. The average annual income is also pretty low but that's on the decline for the last five years. The state's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and neither the county or the city have a higher one in place.

Most people drive because the bus lines here (there are a lot) will take you literally all day to get from the main business district to the main residential area. There are lots of bus lines, but too few buses. The bus ride will take a minimum of 5.5 hours and the drive can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours because there are too few roads to support the traffic. The city, county, and state take great advantage of the very broken transportation system across the state by charging drivers everything from emissions inspections on every single car ($50 annually, even for a brand new car direct from the factory), congestion fees ($150 annually for residents, $50 for 30 days for non residents), to commercial transportation levies that translate to higher priced goods in stores.

Amazon has a physical presence in our state, so we have to pay sales tax on purchases from there. That used to keep people from using Amazon a lot but over the last year there has been a dramatic shift and more than 50% of households say they prefer to use Amazon or other online retailers over local businesses. Documented cases of this in a dozen four-member households averaged a savings of over $1500 in a 12 month period.