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3/10/22, 10:15 PM   #61
Re: Will your schedule change?
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After pretty much missing all of last year. I will go if I have to crawl to get there lol. Luckily we live very modestly, and are vehicles are fuel efficient. Every since paying $5.50 after hurricane Katrina, I always anticipate the oil companies sticking it to us every chance they get.
Ditto Brent. After lockdowns and limited racing with Covid 19, I swore at my age I will not miss a race that I really want to go see. I will stick to that promise to myself in 2022. Price will not stop me but rationing like the 70's would really alter my plans as I travel 350+ miles RT to see my Indiana nw sprint cars in action @ GC I 69 and Kokomo.
 
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3/11/22, 8:51 AM   #62
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I was about to say, it wasn't the price so much, as it was the availability, we usually carried at least 10 gallon extra to hope to get closer to home on the return trip, this time is different, the cost determines how far you go, I remember the rationing, and the stamps during the big one, I was pretty young, but it was demanding on everyone's mind to be able to have a job and be able to get there and get paid, to get food for the family, and coal to keep the house warm, we lived a lot off the land, but we survived, I think about that now, and in the 70s.
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3/11/22, 12:06 PM   #63
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$5 and $6 fuel is a psych spike so we ll be more accepting of $3 and $4 fuel
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3/11/22, 8:11 PM   #64
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$5 and $6 fuel is a psych spike so we ll be more accepting of $3 and $4 fuel

Not me, Im cutting out the floorboards and flintstoning it.
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3/11/22, 9:16 PM   #65
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Not me, Im cutting out the floorboards and flintstoning it.
That should be worth the price of admission!
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3/12/22, 9:54 AM   #66
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Great response from all you folks. I knew we couldn’t avoid ******** but I think we kept it pretty well reigned in. I have very strong political views but I’ll keep them to myself for now. But one thing that keeps going through my mind is, in the past I would ask a buddy or two to go to the races with me. Often times they might offer to throw me some gas money. My response was thanks but not necessary, I was gonna go anyway. Now I’m thinking I might have to recruit friends to go to split the gas costs or I might have to sit one out. Like my buddy Nodrama was saying. I was definitely planning on Husets this year, and haven’t ruled it out yet. But if things continue going in the direction they’re going, reconsideration may be required.
 
3/13/22, 5:58 PM   #67
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With the price of gas and my wife hitting me with a divorce last Monday (3-7-22) everything has gone down the dumper I had planned for this spring & summer right now it looks like the main problem will be the gas price with the divorce 2nd hope to still make the USAC Nationals at Husets but doubt if I will do Midwest Midget week also wanted to to do T-Town Showdown
 
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3/14/22, 12:06 AM   #68
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I may cut back on some other things , but not on racing .
 
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3/14/22, 12:38 AM   #69
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With the price of gas and my wife hitting me with a divorce last Monday (3-7-22) everything has gone down the dumper I had planned for this spring & summer right now it looks like the main problem will be the gas price with the divorce 2nd hope to still make the USAC Nationals at Husets but doubt if I will do Midwest Midget week also wanted to to do T-Town Showdown
Hang in there!
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3/15/22, 12:42 PM   #70
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Hang in there!
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