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I filled up my tank with $32.00 dollars a litte while ago. There goes my pedicure
DON'T ...... neglect the tootsies.
BTW, before you guys , be thankful you live in SA (for the most part). It cost me $60 for my vehicle inspection up here in Dallas thanks to emissions testing.
Crazy white guy, don't you know people on the side
I filled up my tank with $32.00 dollars a litte while ago. There goes my pedicure
DON'T ...... neglect the tootsies.
they also have much much better public transportation than we do and a lot less sprawl.
Thank God for cheap weed.
I paid $58 to fill up on Monday.
Well this perfectly captures our dilemma. We only have one car (thank goodness), and we commute to work together, since we work in the same place (thank goodness he got that job on campus). We would love to buy something closer to work, but the further inside the 610 Loop in Houston you get, the more jacked up the house prices are (and we are not even looking at houses, really, more like condos and townhouses). Throw in the outrageous property taxes and we can't afford to live any closer than we are now. So we have to drive, because we live so far away from work. Taking the bus is a last option, because it's a two hour trip on a normal day. God forbid something happen and it break down, cause then you'll be late to work or miss work entirely. The only houses we could afford to buy are even further out in the suburbs than where we currently live, and in the areas of the outer city with the worst traffic, because there has been such an expansion that the highway system is incapable of supporting the transportation needs.
This sucks.
I wouldn't mind paying $1.89, but anything over $2.00 is just too much in my eyes. I don't see any relief in sight though.
We're going over our budget again. Not in the position to just absorb the additional fuel costs. Need to make cuts. Going to Dallas for Vacation in June so had to increase our budget for gas. Could be past $3 a gallon by then if not more. Time to look into a mo-ped.
I'm glad my Saturn gets great MPG.
I was in the Dallas area this past weekend and I had to fill up at a gas station where regular unleaded was $2.81.
I paid $2.75 for regular unleaded on Wednesday. Mind you, I think the average here is $2.69-2.72, so it was a little high, but that $.03 a gallon doesn't add up to much with a 10-gallon tank.
I seriously want to buy one of those Vaspers or something like that. Its a scooter.
Vespa. Very popular in Italy.
Did you know that the Saturn Vue offers a hybrid option, which gets 27 mpg city and 33 mpg highway and only costs $23000? Not bad for a hybrid SUV. The mileage could stand improvement, but they pointed out that in addition to improved mileage, you also use less gas overall because of the hybrid features (engine shut off while stopping, recharging while braking, etc).
Chevy is also coming out with a hybrid version of the Tahoe which is supposed to get over 30 mpg both city and highway, but the cost will be high.
Don't do it. Everytime I got to Cozumel they are scraping up tourists off the road from scooter accidents. The natives... that's another story. I have seen them with driver + 3 kids or 3 adults on a 50cc scooter lol...
If your getting a bike get a real motorcycle with quality disk breaks.
A friend opines that, after Katrina, the gas companies left it above $3.00 just long enough for us to get used to it, so that we'll accept anything below $3 with a sigh of relief that it isn't over $3
Another friend sends this gem from one of his farming publications--and, sorry, he didn't furnish a link, or even tell me which publication it was in:
To set the all time US record, adjusted for inflation, oil will have to top $90 a barrel to set a record and gas $3.19 a gallon at the retail pump; the record was set during the Carter administration
Let's all buy Scooters and we can start our own SKOOTER GANG
My Skooter Gang name will be : Taco Loco
Last edited by Taco; 04-14-2006 at 04:07 PM.
Anyone in Yuma (Ducks), knows how rediculous gas prices are right now. All the winter visiters are leaving, so gas is in demand (those damn RV's guzzle gas *shaking head* ) and in the last three weeks the price has jumped from a low of $2.35 a gallon to a high of over $3.00. In the last two days alone the price has jumped nearly a quarter.
Crazy. I can't wait until they are gone.
exactly!!
the reason we are oil-dependant is because we all absolutely. must. have. a car. to get. ANYWHERE!
its pretty ridiculous. in my example, denmark, having a car is so expensive that it forces the middle class to use public transport. this, coupled with extensive train and bus service makes transportation the polar opposite of suburban-sprawl US. sure, you see subways in places like new york, but the size of new york in comparison to copenhagen is ridiculous. ffs, we don't have any pedestrian streets in the US...at all! every store, office, house, whatever has its own parking lot and driveway leading directly to it. once you see europe, you see that its truly not necessary...
That lifestyle sucks.
Having your own vehicle and choice to use it whenever, whereever is part of the American way. Beep that euro sheiot. They get my car and my land when my gun is empty hehe.
That does not mean technology can't help us find clean practical fuels for the future. But give up your own vehicle.. no thanks. That's a downgrade in life big time.
I paid $2.99 today. On the radio I heard that parts of California is up to like 3.15 already.
Im Glad We Invaded Iraq I Said
I Said Im Glad We Invaded Iraq I Saiddddd
I've never paid for an inspection.Crazy white guy, don't you know people on the side
And about 40 % of my "renewed" registration tags have been picked up at locations other than the tax office.
Mine will be BlackBar.
Is your brain able to think about anything other than Bush?
The rest of the world is starting to buy cars. Millions of them.
Do you think 10 million new cars are just going to get gas from what?
That's right from the same supplies we all use right now. In China there are about 8 "million+" resident cities for every 1 of ours. And they are just now really starting to crank open new car dealerships. New roads and systems.
So expect China to buy millions more cars in the next few years. They might be 35 mpg 4 bangers but they still need gas.
Last edited by Vashner; 04-22-2006 at 09:51 AM.
I hate dumbass liberals. Iraq has about as much to do with our high gas prices as Can't Be Faded's small penis.Im Glad We Invaded Iraq I Said
I Said Im Glad We Invaded Iraq I Saiddddd
* Prices typically go up as we approach the summer
* China has about eleventy billion people who just realized owning a car is a lot better than walking everywhere
* Iran is doing the war hawk thing
* Population growth in India is also driving record car sales there
* Due to EPA standards (thanks to all the tree huggers running around crying about global warning) several states are having to switch/switched recently to an ethanol additive to gasoline instead of the 'global warming' inducing old additive. Ethanol suppliers have struggled to meet demand which has driven up the cost of gas due to its scarcity
* People seem to have forgotten that Rita and Katrina tag teamed to take out a ton of oil rigs last year. We're still missing over 350,000 barrels per day from production at this time last year. Think about that. Since last September, seven months ago, we've been missing anywhere from 300 to 350 thousand barrels of oil per day. To date we're short over 75 million barrels of oil out of the Gulf compared to the same time frame the year before .
But hey, why take the facts into consideration when you can make some dip crack on Bush?
Here's something else...
If you bought shares of Exxon-Mobil at this time last year, you would have gotten a 9.1% return on your investment, and another 2.1% from the dividend. 11.2% return on XOM stocks.
My 401k has grown 22% in the last year, I guess it's time we blame Bush for Fidelity mutual funds
Last edited by Aggie Hoopsfan; 04-22-2006 at 10:25 AM.
Way to be stuck in denial I saididdd
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