Japanese Economy

Yeah the rise of Oil prices makes everything go up. Bottle of Soda, Gallon of Milk, everything. Its sad how one thing can affect everything.

And the US economy isn't doing so great nowadays either. The Oil Sure is making things easy.

And what pisses me off the most is 4.30ish USD per gallon of gas. And thats the regular one.

It's affected the food buying in my house. We buy our food cheaper than we used too. Used to be mostly from Tesco's and Sainsbury's. Now we shop mostly at Lidl. Budget food.

veggies are goot for youuuuuu lol, as for the oil price thingie guess it just mean hubs and me are less likely to go anywhere too far ^^;;;;

The oil price and people whining about it is on the news everyday. I'm getting tired of hearing about it, but at the same time I understand why people don't like the high prices, think of all the figures you could buy with that extra money you'll save if the oil suddenly had the same price it had 15 years ago.

well, anybody who looks internet notices, will see Argentina's economic situation rofl

My family's always been kind of frugal, but the rising cost of everything combined with the current crap economy is driving us to a new extreme. We've kind of gotten hit by the bad economy second hand--my dad's technically in a service industry, and even if he's earned 20 grand for the business in a month, he only gets paid if his clients can pay him, which lately has not been a good prospect. Not only that, but I'm in college, and even with a hefty scholarship housing, food, and books for me are quite expensive. Not to mention that I might have to throw down money for Adobe CS3 this semester. -_-;; This is why all the Figmas I want (save for Miku) are going on my Christmas list instead of my buy list.

Well we just got a note from the park manager that we'll be charged for the water we're using (before this is was free) so yeah it's affecting everyone. Milk is almost as expensive as oil but I drink soymilk and almond milk anyways.

Uhh not really.. i haven't felt the impact yet. Except movie tickets went up today. :(

Yep, been feeling the price of everything going up, gas, food. And by the way two of the largest banks in America have filed for bankruptcy I think Its gonna get worse before it gets better.

Interesting!
Food prices are up here in Brazil, but they stopped rising for now.
We are having a very hot winter time around here... hot AND dry.
Several states don't see rain for almost a month now...

Unfortunately just about everything in the States goes up in price due to the increase in oil prices. We would love to get people their food cheaper but it costs a lot more to bring it in and then ship it back out.

Oh yes, everything is more expensive now, it's quite sad. We have an F-250 super duty truck, it runs on diesel and diesel is hovering around $5.00 a gallon, it's horrible. =/ We actually went and rented a small can for our trip down to San Diego for Comic-Con, it turned out about half the price of filling up the truck twice for that trip. The truck would have taken about 2 tank fulls, $300 in total.

Everytime I see my parents getting mad at the high prices of things, it makes me want to help them. But if I do want to help them, I should do everything in my power to graduate as soon as possible!

If there's an impact, I haven't felt it. I would say that everyone else is feeling it, because I'm just spending about the same I as usually do: very little. I consciously try to get things used and not new recently, and I don't think I'm helping out the local economy through buying PVC from overseas.

Scares of stagflation are pretty popular here. Too late for prevention, need to find a solution. For the most part, news tends to switch between oil and subprime mortgages. The car is being used less and buying a car seems to be more attractive.

good news for vegetarians like me =D

The increase in everything is getting a bit irritating for me. I remember a cup of black coffee usually cost 60cents (those cheap ones)..But recently, it's 80 cents!! ZOMG!! Even the taxi is getting zomg expensive.

However, spending habits are still the same.. T__T

As far as gas goes, I'm lucky enough to work for a company that provides me an expense account for transportation. So on that front I'm good, but I am certainly feeling the strain in other areas... things actually wouldn't be so tight if it weren't for the fact I proposed to my GF and now I'm saving for our wedding.

Weddings = expensive.
Wedding Industry = a bunch of money sucking vampires

Things are more expensive but I don't buy many things anyway, and I don't have a car so I'm not feeling the burn yet.

I've noticed that there has been less cars on the road these days. which is also good for the remaining motorist since cars stuck in traffic jams eats up more fuel, stress' up the drivers and causes more pollution.
however what's really changing my spending habits are diapers, nursing pads and cotton swabs. they are eating up my gunpla fund. lol ^^

Just don't buy, simple like that.

It's a global issue - since we are so reliant on oil for everything, it is certain that when oil prices go up, pretty much everything goes up as well.
Maybe we should just be self-reliant and grow our own crops - like J.O. ...

Beansprouts in Singapore are the only veg. that's still cheap. That and mineral water. >_< Someone build a solar elevator quickly!

well oil/gas = distribution, since without gas/oil we can't tranport the products
and current hybrid car still can't replace standard gas car, from what i heard its more expensive to pay the electric bill rather than buying the gas

Same here as well. Everyday in the news all you hear are about oil prices going up and everyday necessities going up with it. Kinda tired of hearing about it really, people should just use bicycles. heheh! Or someone should make a teleporter. XD

does the price of petrolum has anything to do with the high price of PVC figure? Generally, it used to be around 4,800 yen in 2004, then 6,800 yen in 2006, and now almost 9,000 yen for an Alter/GSC level pvc figure.

Rising oil prices affected me big time, the price of air fare to Tokyo has been risen about 25% this year compared to last year. I paid about $875 to a round-trip to Tokyo last summer. This time, I paid $1135, that's almost $300 increase!

And also I heard airline gonna start charging for drinks and even meals so I hope that's not the case for my flight...

Well, there's some controversy down here that the petrol companies are putting up the oil prices more than they actually do compared to the oil prices. Governments are making sure petrol companies don't charge 'extra.'
Sydney is really dependent cars, since the public transport system is just so bad. If I wanted to go anywhere besides the city, I'd get my parents to drive me.

I don't really like vegetables so...

Wow the price of rising oil is making every one in the US change their driving habits...some get smaller cars and others don't drive and start taking public transportation...wonder how long it'll take to end up like Japan subways...

Our family has never really bought from 'expensive stores' before, now we're just careful with our buying

Jup, everything getting more expensive here too. Thankfully it's not really affecting us personally, but the consumer trust seems to be at an all time low. Not that the media are helping much by milking out every negative trend there is....

It's the same here. Most products cost more becasue of oil, but watermelons are so cheap farmers can't make profit, so they dump them as protest in the parking lot in front of Tesco's.

Woohoo - cheap moolies!

Here in the UK our economy is tanking badly. The UK economy has literally fallen off the cliff. Last Summer you could get nearly 250 yen for your pound, now it's 200. House prices are crashing, a big bank failed, folk are losing their jobs and the new prime minister is perhaps wishing he'd never taken the job. The worst thing is that the Labour government of the last 11 years have saved absolutely nothing for a rainy day, so the next few years will be brutally tough for many folk (especially those under 35, who have known only good economic times).

Happily my otaku programming skills have never been more in demand, as our recent graduates prefer to study wooly subjects such as sociology and acting.

Most goods and necessary items for daly life (food, water, hygiene products) have become more expensive here as well, though that's been so for a few years now since the Euro was introduced here. The past two years with the increased oil prices fuel and food prices have increased more sharply though.

Add to that our country hasn't had a decent working government for over a year now... which certainly isn't doing the economy any good.

If veggie are cheap then convert to biofuel....or somthin like corn oil....darn these gas prices that makes plastic cost even more!!!

I'm very interested on the price of pantsus, are they going to be so high that school girls wouldn't be able to buy them?

High oil prices are causing a lot of people to cut back on spending, not just myself. Though I can be thankful that the high prices should come down

High oil prices are causing a lot of people to cut back on spending, not just myself. Though I can be thankful that the high prices should come down in the next couple of years

Yeah, this whole downward spiral economy has affected my spending habits.

E^d

As much as it may be dwelling on others unhappiness, the low oil prices are helping me ^^

South African Rand/Japanese Yen and South African Rand/US Dollar exchange rates have shot way down over the past two weeks... my trip to Japan has got 20% cheaper ^^;

well the gas prices and food prices rising has made my family not go on so many trips obviously, and my mom buys from local places (like farms and all that) so then they dont have to travel across the country to get to us (like oranges from florida she wont want to buy as often, but she'd rather buy apples from the local farm instead, plus 100% of the money goes back to the farmer) so i guess people buying local vegetables will only help their economy it sounds like and they dont have to pay so much for gas(???)

idk much about this stuff but thats just my guess -_-

must look for alternative, it looks like were running-out of oil in the near future, if our generation wont preserve, the next generation would be on doom

alright cheap fruits and veggies :D

Here in Bulgaria, NO MATTER what happens people always spend money like crazy(even thought the salaries are lousy - where do they get the money from?) and the prices of the products are going higher and higher NO MATTER WHAT! That's my impression.