Memorial Day and the Economy
This past weekend (Memorial Day) brought me my first concern about the economic conditions here in northeast Georgia. I hope I’m over-reacting and just making conversation.
Prior to this weekend if I had not read a news story, listened to the radio, or watched TV I would have assumed that our economy is booming like never before. Massive traffic - everywhere, can’t get into a WalMart or Home Depot, restaurants packed - both fastfood and high-end - cars and homes selling like hotcakes. I was convinced this “economic slowdown” was a product of the news media (and it still probably is).
However - this past weekend my wife and I were a little concerned about what we saw - and what we didn’t see. Very little traffic - everywhere we ate there were no lines - few boats on Lanier - no crowds at the malls or shopping centers. A little troubling.
I believe that these bizarre gas prices are the culprit and either we will see some leveling off or members of Congress will get tossed out of office right and left come November. There is no excuse for this - we have complete control over what we pay for oil - we’ve got so much untapped resources it’s making this “oil crisis” comical.
Anyway…that’s my rant for the day.
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I had occasion to drive up to Greenville, SC twice over the holiday weekend. Very interesting drives. Not an 18 wheeler in the left lane, not one going over 70mph. Cars in the left lanes and very few going over 72 mph. I guess at $3.89 a gallon we have decided to change our habits!!! Isn’t that interesting!! But, at the same time, driving on Satellite Blvd. in Suwanee this morning was a young man, obviously less than 25 years old, driving his fire engine red mustang with “modified” dual exhausts, driving in a behaviour that makes Firestone/Goodyear/Michelin and QT very happy. I think his goal was to break the land speed record while between traffic lights that are not even 1/4 mile apart. Any of us ever been there in our teen age years at less than $1.00 a gallon gas? I guess the price of gas has age limitations sometimes.
We found the same thing to be true, fewer cars, quiet streets and most definately less people on Lake Lanier. Due to the drought, people that are not familiar with the lake and the under water obstacles are staying off the water. The good news is there were no fatalities on the lake over Memorial Day and no real accidents to speak of.
We recently had an interview with the Lake Lanier Sailing Club and they have a good thing going….SAILING….wind is their power not gas!! So anyone wanting to enjoy the water and not have to deal with high gas prices you might want to think about sailing this summer….
Check out our interview wih Jim Chinik the Commodore of the sailing club, it was very fun and informative!
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