HAS GAS PRICES AFFECTED YOUR SERVICE TIME ANY?
OUTASERVICE (WHO HAD TO QUIT ALTOGETHER )
Seriously, do you think it will affect the good ole Society?
$3.15 per gallon and rising!
by Outaservice 28 Replies latest jw friends
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Velvetann
Here in Canada they will have to start walking out in Service. They carpool don't they? Everyone in my Moms congregation seemed to own Vans.
Last week when I gassed up it was $1.07 a litre which works out to the US Gallon to be about $4.86 a Gallon.
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Gopher
All they have to do is load up 6 or 7 people in a mini-van, and hopefully everyone will pitch in a dollar. Well actually, most JW's take a free ride -- they hardly ever offer to pay the driver.
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Jourles
If anything, the WTS will "pass on" the costs associated with printing, shipping, etc. to the r&f. But this can only be done indirectly - a simple "we need more money" article in a KM would do it. I'd also bet my left nut that they wouldn't say a word about the poor publishers having to pay for higher gas prices out of their own pockets either. It would be all about them and being able to sustain the printing work.
I honestly do not see the WTS telling the pubs they can back off a little in field service due to gas costs. They *might* tell the pubs to help contribute to the driver's gas fund if they take someone else's vehicle other than their own. Many do this already by dropping a dollar or two in a cupholder. But let's face it, a dollar or two is nothing if you're the one with a large SUV in the hall that everyone expects to take out in service all the time. And if it's very hot or extremely cold out? Guess what? The car is going to be idling while bro-1hr-RV does his thing. I wonder how many pubs these days deep down hate taking their own car out? If I were still in or if my wife was still here, I'd go sell her SUV and buy a two-door coupe instead(or hell, even a truck!).
I'd also assume that many are starting to spend more on gas out in service than they contribute at the hall on a monthly basis. Some pubs might feel that by contributing in that way would get them off the hook for the other. That would spell more bad news for the WTS too if it were true.
If there is one bright ray of sunshine regarding this recession(yes, we are in one) and high gas prices, it is that the WTS is probably seeing a huge drop in cash flow right about now. With the Pew Forum's recent survey on jw's, all of those low income earners need to save pennies wherever they can. I know if I were in that position, donations at the hall would be one of the first places I would cut back at.
I bet they didn't even see this one coming.
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daniel-p
No, i dont think gas prices will affect service much. Fear of dying at Armageddon is stronger than the economic pressure of gas prices.
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barbar
In th UK its about £5 or $10 per gallon, I'd love prices like $4.
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Borgia
A Gallon is about 4,5 litres against a 1,10 € / L = 4.95 € /g. That's equal to about 7,50 $. But then again, we don't have to drive 100 miles before reaching the first settlement.....a lot of families here are struggles to make ends meet. Indebtedness is growing. So when things getting worse...we may see more combined efforts. You know the ones we used to undertake when going to isolated/ never preached in territory?
I know of countries where they pay about 1,45 to 1,53 a litre, almost 10 $ a gallon.
thinking about it: the fateful & deceit slave may even devote a entire KM to alternative preaching other than 4 sardines in a can preaching: by bike, foot...
Cheers
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deaconbluez
There was a time when gas was thirty cents a gallon...and love was only sixty cents away.
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JH
In my congregation, JW's are richer today than they were 20 years ago, so they can pay for the gas.
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bite me
3.65 here and rising. and that is for the 87 gas!
I think it is because of the elections.
Sad, just last week it was 2.87.. I don't see how it can go up so much so fast.