"Steve Barker" wrote >
Uh, you have one that is almost empty, and you want to cook something that will take three hours ...............
You're going camping, and want to just take a full tank ..................
You don't want to make an extra trip, so you round the low ones up and have them all filled ..........................
Then only charge you for what you put in them, so what's the difference ..................
Steve
I have several Ace Hardwares in my area, and none sell propane.
Steve
You must have a big property. Mine was $1.29 a foot.
Steve
There are no Ace Hardware stores around here and they don't sell propane either. ;-)
Something around 100' to 125' (can't remember). They have to dig around three sides of my house and somewhat into the yard (around the back porch). It was that much just for the pipe. Mexicans were extra.
Don't get out much do you? One of the issues we have in this country is the fact that we have become a largely service economy. Fewer and fewer belong to what used to be known as the middle class. The millions of manufacturing jobs that allowed folks to raise a family, buy a house whatever are gone. $17/hour is actually something to aspire to for a lot of folks. There is a good reason who outfits like walmart can claim with a big smirk "see, we aren't so bad, we opened the Smithville store and
8,000 applied for work." Where else are they going to go?
That doesn't answer my question. Can you live on $17/hr in CA?
As for the stratified economy, that varies greatly by state, with CA being one of the very stratified states with low end jobs, high end jobs, and little in between.
This stratification is indeed a huge issue, and one that the left wing simply doesn't understand. Obummer's SOTU address showed that he didn't understand this fundamental problem either. The left wing thinks that somehow pressuring everyone into college will somehow magically allow them to get one of those high end jobs, and if they can't make it then all they are good for is some low end janitorial job. This is of course a recipe for disaster and is very much part of the growing gap between rich and poor, a gap that ultimately leads to societal collapse if it isn't rectified.
No country can put all it's eggs in the "knowledge economy" basket, think that it can just export all it's "foundational" jobs to third world countries and think that those third world countries won't catch up and compete in the "knowledge economy". Every country needs to maintain a diverse economy with solid midrange jobs and manufacturing capability. Imported goods need to be strictly novelty or luxury items as they were in the past, not critical staple items.
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