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It was just last year when I filled up and it cost about $35.00. Last week it cost me $46.00 for the same fill up.

I am going to travel back in time when I drove a 1965 VW Beetle in high school - the year was 1971. I paid .25 per gallon of gas! It cost $2.50 for a fill up. You could also buy 5 White Castle Hamburgers for a buck.

This link is provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration - provides the historical rise of gas prices:

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_tt_usM.htm

Now leaping back to our current year.

Everyone is now fearing where this cost for fuel is going. The forecast looks bleak. The costs of food, travel, any products manufactured and carried to market - almost everything is being effected by the cost of rising fuels prices.

There is a huge push for alternative fuels. Solar, Wind, Hydro, Ethanol, Coal, Uranium, Hydrogen, used cooking oil - almost anything to meet our county's energy needs. attached is a link to Wikipedia about Alternative Fuels for more information. 

Everyday we are faced with rising living costs that are out pacing our incomes. Fuel prices are effecting everything in our lives. What is going to happen to our way of life? We will be forced to adjust - change our ways, our choices, even our lives.

I think many people will start looking back in time to see how people were able to make due with less. Growing your own food, making your own home furnishings, making your own clothes, and especially traveling less. We may even find ourselves using horses, bicycles, or anything that will allow us to travel in a more affordable way.  I also think communities will have to bond together and form coops for non profit reasons to survive. These coops will help provide food, clothing, building materials - the fundamentals of Life. 

Articles about the growing Gas Problems: 

http://www.nytimes.com

http://www.cnn.com

We still use electricity in our daily lives for cooking, TV and of course, the Internet.

We need to look towards the future to solve today's problems, but until then fill your tires to the correct pressure, change your air filters and drive slower.

What do you feel about the rising costs of fuel and the future way of life? 

I just ran across this article about Staycations from the Sun Sentinel.

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Well congress decided not to add wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance. Saying that it's too expensive. Gee - why don't they say that about the Iraq War! I guess it's better to die for the country and preserve Iraq's Oil fields then take care of our own US citizens.

Here's today's story:

Wind coverage plan gets walloped
High costs are cited as efforts to add an amendment for wind coverage to the flood insurance bill fails.

BY LESLEY CLARK
lclark@MiamiHerald.com

WASHINGTON –
A Gulf Coast-backed effort to add wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program was soundly defeated Wednesday in the Senate amid concerns that it would be too expensive.

The drive to add the amendment to the flood insurance bill failed 19 to 73. Opponents said they were leery of the cost and opposed to federal intervention in private markets.

The whole story: 

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/525128.html

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Good Article, but the real question is what is going to be built and how is it going to be paid for.

S. Fla. stuck with $3 billion sewage bill
The state Legislature passed a measure that requires South Florida counties to halt the discharge of sewage into the sea, but the bill comes with a hefty price tag.

By LAURA FIGUEROA
lfigueroa@MiamiHerald.com

TALLAHASSEE –
South Florida counties must eventually stop pumping hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage every day into the ocean, under a bill the Legislature passed Wednesday that also sticks the counties with the $3 billion cost.

''It's the same old story: The state leaves the county with the big price tag,'' said Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, who has been monitoring the measure from Tallahassee.

The whole story:
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/516483.html

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For Residential use Only - No commercial vehicles
New Program - Saturdays Only - April 5 - September 27, 2008 from 8:00am - 4:00pm

Recycle branches, palm fronds, tree limbs and trimmings for free!

Disposal Locations:

North Residential Trash Transfer Station
2780 N. Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach
(North of Copans Rd.)

Central Residential Trash Transfer Station
5490 Reese Rd., Davie

South Residential Trash Transfer Station
5601 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.,West Park
(East of U.S. 441)

For more information, call 954-765-4999 or visit Broward.org/waste

Program includes free disposal of yard waste, woody waste such as fencing and lumber, and bulky waste including large items such as sofas, chairs, mattresses, appliances and carpeting.

Free disposal is available to the residents of all Broward County cities except Pembroke Pines, Parkland, Pompano Beach and Hallandale Beach.*

*A current driver’s license/photo ID with a utility bill (water, electricity, cable, telephone) and/or tax notice are required as proof of residency (name and address must match). Any users without the required proof of residency will be denied access; residents without the required proof of residency will be required to contact their City for an Authorization Certification to be allowed access.

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Water managers vote to ease water restrictions
By Andy Reid |  Sun-Sentinel.com
11:55 AM EDT, April 10, 2008

South Florida water managers today voted to ease restrictions and allow twice-a-week yard watering starting April 18.

Two months of above normal rainfall and a wet start to April buoyed water supplies and prompted the district to stop the once-a-week watering limits, in place since Jan. 15.

Under the new restrictions, odd numbered addresses would be allowed to water on Wednesdays and Saturdays and even numbered addresses would water on Thursdays and Sundays. Watering would be allowed between 12 a.m. and 10 a.m. or between 4 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/