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 Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: bkg]
#881604
04/20/08 10:00 PM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 11,727
Web Wheeler
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You only burn your reserves when every else it tapped out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />
98 Montero with cold weather package
96 Toyota Land Cruiser, fully locked Mall Machine :-)
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: LRJ4x4]
#881605
04/20/08 11:12 PM
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 633
Rock Warrior
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The whole topic makes me sick! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/drunk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: LRJ4x4]
#881606
04/20/08 11:19 PM
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Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 3,935
Roll Me Over
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You only burn your reserves when every else it tapped out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" /> So... In the mean time, we allow ourselves to be held hostage by OPEC - countries that HATE us - and spend all of our money investing in "alternative fuels" that thus far, have done nothing more than double (or more) the cost of many food items? Allowing other countries to kill our economy over some idea of "pride" isn't what I call smart... or <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />
Brian K. Gallus
I have nothing important to say.
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 Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: sparkem]
#881607
04/21/08 01:23 AM
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 10
Need a Spot
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Ive been paying $4.29 to $4.50 a gallon for diesel in New Mexico and $3.55 a gallon for gas. Ive always thought diesel was cheaper to make. Biodiesel here I come!
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: bkg]
#881608
04/21/08 02:06 AM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 11,727
Web Wheeler
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We double our food prices and American's hardly blink. People in poor countries are starving because of grain diverted to bio-diesel production. Of course of lot of poor countries starve their people to get cash from the IMF <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" /> Every day when I'm driving to work I see only one person per 3000 lb car or 4500 lb SUV. Any way you slice it, the economics and physics of using 4500 lbs to move a 180 lb person to and from work is wasteful. I should know I have a 96 Land Cruiser <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/oink.gif" alt="" /> I plan on getting a Smart car or other toy car even for my 5 mile commute. I'm sure the car companies have plans for more 60 MPG cars in the works. Heck I'll settle for a old Subaru Justy 3 cylinder AWD <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
98 Montero with cold weather package
96 Toyota Land Cruiser, fully locked Mall Machine :-)
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: sparkem]
#881609
04/21/08 02:17 AM
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 5,690
Trail Leader
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<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> $3.29 for 87. Ouch. I really need a stupid little car.
Take that almost everyone else.
What about you? Same.. But I'm just up the road 11 gallon tank made my fillup @ $34, I'm good for the next 400 miles or so <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
1999 Mitsu Montero - Crappy Weather
1992 Isuzu Pickup - Zombie Apocalypse
2008 Saturn Sky Redline - Nice Weather
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: sparkem]
#881610
04/21/08 03:27 AM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 2,649
Roll Me Over
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Being on a fixed income, fuel prices have really put a damper on my travels. But a friend of mine sent me an E-mail that stated things could be worst.
Hard not to complain about the price of gasoline, but just read this.
All these
examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap;
they just illustrates
how outrageous some prices are....
You will be really shocked by
the last one!!!!
(At least, I was...)
Compared with Gasoline......
Think a gallon of gas is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 .. $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ..........$9.52 per
gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ..... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ........ $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ........ $33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 . $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ... $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 . $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .$84.48 per gallon
And
this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49..........$21.19 per gallon!
$21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the
source.
(Evian spelled back-wards is Naive.)
Ever wonder why computer printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink
at................
you won't believe it...................
but it is true.........................
$5,200 a gal..
(five thousand two hundred dollars)
So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on
water, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto
Bismol, Nyquil or God forbid, Printer Ink!!!!!
I guess the Gas guy's are not as bad as they seem. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />
Michael j
TreadLightly! Trainer
Grasscat III, 1994 Gen 2 Five speed, Stock ( for a little while )
GrassCat II, 1998 Gen 2.5 Locked and loaded. Ran off with Hector.
GrassCat I, 1991 Gen 1 Ran off with Justice.
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: Grasscat]
#881611
04/21/08 05:03 AM
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 11,727
Web Wheeler
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Eye drops for kid $100 for 4ml =$94,000 per gallon!
98 Montero with cold weather package
96 Toyota Land Cruiser, fully locked Mall Machine :-)
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 Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: LRJ4x4]
#881612
04/21/08 10:14 AM
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Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 6,896
OP
Trail Leader
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Yeah, that 25 gallons of white out a week can get expensive. I need a better mistakes per word pen.
I just want to tell you both good luck, and we're all counting on you.
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Re: I just paid the most I have ever paid for regular gas
[Re: Creeper]
#881613
04/21/08 10:16 AM
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Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 409
Mudrunner
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I still believe the post Katrina price hike was a test to see if Americans would pay $3+ per gallon. Once everybody did, I believe it was easy for the suppliers to justify charge more. I'm just glad I live in a small town with a short commute.... Unfortunately it is a combination of China and India's demands as well as speculators that is pushing fuel prices up. It is figured that $20-$30 a barrel is due to speculation. The rest of the rise is due to increased demand world over with most of that coming from China and India.
-- Bryan
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