Our car dealer says we should be changing the oil in our new car every 3,000 miles, in order to insure the warranty. We can do this by driving out to the dealership, waiting in line, and either leaving the car, or wait in the waiting room, and then pay $55. It usually takes more than an hour, if you get there real early during the week.
The last time I had the oil changed at 10,000 miles, I took the car to Jiffy Lube - it took only about twenty minutes and I paid them $65. They talked me into getting synthetic oil - Royal Purple. They tried to sell me an air filter for $18 - but I declined. According to Click & Clack, The Tappit Brothers, you can go over 6,000 miles between oil changes. I've always been fond of Texaco oil. I get almost all of my oil from either Spindletop or from the Permian Basin. Dad goes 5,000, because it's easy to remember the numbers. One guy, a car mechanic, once told me that oil never breaks down - all you have to do is change the oil filter and add a quart of oil. Go figure. So, this time I took the car to Pep Boys for the oil change: $19.95 for Pennzoil, with a discount coupon, and half an hour waiting. And, I bought my own filter for $12.95 and put it on myself. The rent is too damn high! On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > My electric bill through the summer and up until November is usually > around $45. California homes are built for cooling not heating. My > November bill is $20 more. I'm not looking forward to the bill now that > the furnace has kicked in. The new roof I had added in 2007 improved > cooling quite a bit so AC seldom needs to be run but that December was very > cold so at the first of the year I had more insulation put in. The old > shake roof was actually better for heating and not so good for cooling. > > > On 12/06/2013 07:50 AM, Share Long wrote: > > > Richard, my electric bill was $11 last month. In summer it can be as high > as $90, depending on how much I run the window air conditioners. > > Are you all in a drought area? I've heard that much of the west gets its > water from the Rocky mountains and that's why water is so expensive. Water > wars around the corner! > > > > On Thursday, December 5, 2013 2:28 PM, Richard Williams > <pundits...@gmail.com> <pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In September our water bill was $90; so we cut back; then in October > the bill was $40. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > We tried to use less water by: > > 1. Only doing full loads of wash using cold water once a week. > 2. Filling the sink with water for dish washing, instead of leaving the > water running. > 3. Taking quick showers and low tub fills for bathing. > 4. Stopped watering the front lawn and half of the back yard. > > Then, the November water bill came in at $110. This is just outrageous!!! > > Who are you going to call? So, I called the San Antonio Water System > (SAWS) to complain, to no avail. The water company is a monopoly! One guy's > bill was over $500 for one month, and he was out of town for ten days. Go > figure. They found a leak at his place - in the concrete foundation pipe! > > So, I've started to monitor the water meter. Do they actually read those > meters, or is it just a guestimate? > > The rent is too damned high! > > [image: Inline image 2] > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > > The rent is too damn high! > > Now we're going to have to pay higher taxes in order to get heath > insurance. You can't keep your plan or your doctor and you can't sign up at > the exchange. And now I'm finding out there's a marriage penalty.It's just > outrageous! > > The rent is too damn high! > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:26 PM, <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Not only has it already been passed long since, it's survived a Supreme > Court challenge. The Republicans--a minority of the most > conservative--aren't trying to keep it from passing, they're trying to get > it repealed, defunded. It's just insane. That's why the government is shut > down and why the debt limit increase is in jeopardy, threatening default. > This small group of House members is holding the country hostage. > > Once Obamacare is fully in effect, unless things go badly wrong somehow, > a lot of people will change their tune. Folks are bellyaching, generally > speaking, because they're either misinformed (by the Republicans) or > uninformed. > > Somebody took a poll the other day asking people if they approved of > Obamacare; then asking them if they approved of the Affordable Care Act. A > sizeable percentage approved of the latter but not the former. In fact, > Obamacare IS the Affordable Care Act. Just different ways of referring to > the same exact thing. > > The new government Web site where people can find out about and apply > for Obamacare has been mobbed the past few days. That's the good news. The > bad news is that it wasn't prepared for such a huge onslaught and has been > malfunctioning rather seriously. You just want to tear your hair out. > > Ann wrote: > I gotta tell you I do not, for the life of me, understand why Americans > are belly aching about a new health care set up in the US. Nothing could be > any more expensive and out of reach for the average American than it is > now. I think if the damn thing ever passes all this fear-mongering and > whining will prove unjustified. Christ, I hear some people are even afraid > the US will become a (gasp) socialistic society as a result. I've got news > for you guys, you already are. > > > > > > > >
