Cars..................................

Well today I had to do it, start thinking about buying cars.  I didn't want to, but the current situation has left me no choice.  I find both of the cars my husband and I drive on their last leg.  We both have almost made it to 200,000 miles, and several years without car payments.  The thought of the process of finding cars alone is mind boggling.  Why you might ask, because the prospect of a car payment is nauseating. All the news continues to talk about is the trouble in Egypt, if the government sways and falls into the Muslim extremist hands, then the middle east will be almost completely controlled by the " death to American people".  What would be the quickest way to reach death for Americans, stop the flow of oil.  Without the flow of oil from the middle east, our country would come to a stand still in a relatively short amount of time. Think about our dependency on the oil to get  to work, transport food and goods and so on. America has become a service country, we provide lots of services, but not many goods.  Thanks to our need for cheaper and cheaper retail, we have killed our own economy of self sufficiency. No longer do we grow our own food or purchase locally grown food from our neighbors. As we face the prospect of $5.00 or more for a gallon gas in the future, how will we meet the challenge?  Will we carpool, work closer to home, or God forbid, do without some of the lifestyle we have currently grown accustomed to? Who knows.  Which brings me to my dilemma about the car situation. Not only do I need to decide if or when to buy a car, should it be new, or used, car or truck, gas hog or gas miser, 4wd or 2wd, one or two. As with most things in life we often over prepare or under prepare for the unexpected.  Remember the debacles of the Y2K thing.  This will definitely be an ongoing decision making process. Wish we could power the world on bullshit, Lord knows we have plenty of that to spare. This is going to put a real kink in my New Years resolution...............

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