High Fuel Prices and the Five Stages of Grief

[klenger]

Five Stages of Grief



(1) Denial: The initial stage: "It can't be happening. "



(2) Anger: "Why me? It's not fair. " #@$%!



(3) Bargaining: "Just let me live to see my children graduate. " :-{}



(4) Depression: "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"



(5) Acceptance: "It's going to be OK. "



I've noticed a totally different tone in the posts the last couple of days regarding high fuel prices. It seems like we may have made it to step (5) as I am seeing comments such as "I'm parking my CTD", "I taking the wife's car", "What's a cheap high milage car to get", etc.



Fill in your responses to each of the five steps.

 

[Wiredawg]

Denial=Diesel can't be more expensive than premium gas, can it?



Anger=%#*$# Diesel can't be more expensive than premium gas!!!



Bargaining=I'm bargaining the oil companies record record profits again! and again! and again!



Depresion=How high will the price of diesel go?



Acceptance: It's just money... do I really want to leave it to my kids???:-laf



Wiredawg

 

[The patriot]

Skrew it! I'm making biodiesel!:-laf

Where does this one fit?

 

[GDMRTN]

Denial- NO, I won't drive a gasser cuz it's cheeper

Anger- sh1t, I'll need fuel soon.

Bargaining- Now, where is the cheepest place? And where did I put them 10 gallon of waste oil?

Depression- I just filled up and drove down the street and saw cheeper place.

Acceptance- I guess I gotta accept the fact that it smokes more with large amounts of waste oil.

 

[WDixon27]

i am still stuck on anger, the last full tank of fuel i bought i paid 2. 86 for and hated doing it, took my time running that out and filled up with some of the jet A that i picked up to run the shop heaters (that i ran out the last of my diesel to go get like 60 miles away) ran about half of that out and topped up with diesel and now i have maybe 100 miles of fuel left and i don't wanna know what it'll cost to fill it :{

 

[JDiepstra]

Denial - Never felt that way, it was more like " I know the dang price would start shooting up since I just bought the dang thing.



Anger - "Why does this always happen to me"



Bargaining - "I have to make this tank last till it goes back down to under $4. 00 per gallon. Just drive really nice till then"



Depression - "Floor it!" Depression gone.



Acceptance - Nope, back to the bargaining step.

 

[BigPapa]

... i paid 2. 86 for...

Do you mean $3. 86?



It's OK. I do it all the time, too. Some kind of mental block about fuel CAN'T be more than $3. 00 a gallon.



Man I must be getting old.



Scott

 

[WDixon27]

nope two eighty six been driving the truck only when needed instead of for fun, which sucks because i love my truck

Do you mean $3. 86?



It's OK. I do it all the time, too. Some kind of mental block about fuel CAN'T be more than $3. 00 a gallon.



Man I must be getting old.



Scott

 

[The patriot]

Dont feel bad. I KNOW some of the fuel in my 550 I just emptied is from when it was $0. 59. 9. #@$%!