Cutting Back...

[Mixability]

My Tahoe does also.
Do you live in SA?

Were do you gas up?

I said it TAKES e85, but not that I've ever tried it.

Randolph FuelUSA? is the only local e85 station.

[Mixability]

i guess you don't know everything else that ethanol affects. you do know that there's more gas in ethanol than ethanol itself. i'm talking about corn ethanol which all these global warming idiots are ing over.

I don't know, because I don't use ethanol.

To tell you the truth, I bought my "big ol' honkin' SUV" cause I needed the space, kid haulin' and such. I bought it knowing that gas prices were on the rise.

[leemajors]

ethanol subsidies need to end now. they're driving up hop prices, which in turn makes me pay more for my delicious IPA's.





the effect on food prices also sucks.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I don't know, because I don't use ethanol.

My v8 does take ethanol fuel, so that makes me feel better about driving alone sometimes.

you are danyo, are you? look in the mirror if this is a hard question.

[easjer]

Eh, not really yet. But we'll have to soon. SFIE and I already commute together, and that will continue even after he leaves campus. Biking from our area is impossible - it's 16 miles by straight highway to get to work. Now, biking to some areas is possible, and we should get a new tire and take advantage. There is public transportation, and if gas prices get particularly outrageous we may have to resort to it. But it is not something I want to do. The commute time in the car is 30 - 40 minutes on average. The commute time via bus is 1.5 -2.5 hours, one way. I don't have time for that. I would love to live closer to work, but the cost of living is way beyond our means.

The one thing this has changed is that we no longer plan to buy an SUV or a mini-van in a year when we get a new car. We'll stick with the sedan until our children are numerous enough to need a bigger vehicle (which would be when we hit 3, because it simply is not possible to fit 3 carseats in the back seat of a sedan). And hopefully, by the time we hit that point, hybrids will be more affordable and more widely available, and more extraction crews will be trained in using jaws of life on a hybrid car in case of emergency.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

So, am I supposed to have 2 different cars ... one for when I have to take my son and all of his crap to baseball practice and my daughter and all of her crap to softball, and then another waiting for me at their respective fields for after I drop them off? Dude, sometimes I have be all alone in my truck. It happens.

C'mon SW, that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about commuting. Fact is most people drive alone to and from work, often in oversized vehicles, and commuting makes up over 60% of most people's travel. Of course people are going to drive alone sometimes!

However, if every vehicle car pooled with one other person you'd vastly reduce traffic congestion (and thus wasted gas from sitting in traffic jams) and greatly increase transport efficiency whilst probably lowering gas prices. And if everyone drove vehicles with 2L engines rather than 4L engines, which are largely unnecessary for city dwellers...

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

BTW - I am NOT a support of ethanol made from corn or any other foodstuff. It is absurd to make transport fuel from FOOD! From a George Monbiot article about the growing global food shortage:

"I am sorely tempted to write another column about biofuels. From this morning all sellers of transport fuel in the United Kingdom will be obliged to mix it with ethanol or biodiesel made from crops. The World Bank points out that “the grain required to fill the tank of a sports utility vehicle with ethanol … could feed one person for a year”(5). Last year global stockpiles of cereals declined by around 53m tonnes(6); this gives you a rough idea of the size of the hunger gap. The production of biofuels this year will consume almost 100m tonnes(7), which suggests that they are directly responsible for the current crisis. In the Guardian yesterday the transport secretary Ruth Kelly promised that “if we need to adjust policy in the light of new evidence, we will.”(8) What new evidence does she require? In the midst of a global humanitarian crisis, we have just become legally obliged to use food as fuel. It is a crime against humanity in which every driver in this country has been forced to participate."

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008...-of-the-flesh/

Now ethanol made from bagasse and other crop wastes, as long as sufficient wastes are left on the land to replenish the soil, makes sense to me.

[SpursWoman]

C'mon SW, that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about commuting. Fact is most people drive alone to and from work, often in oversized vehicles, and commuting makes up over 60% of most people's travel. Of course people are going to drive alone sometimes!

However, if every vehicle car pooled with one other person you'd vastly reduce traffic congestion (and thus wasted gas from sitting in traffic jams) and greatly increase transport efficiency whilst probably lowering gas prices. And if everyone drove vehicles with 2L engines rather than 4L engines, which are largely unnecessary for city dwellers...

So I'm supposed to have 2 cars at my disposal? One to go to work in (commute), and another to haul around my family? Because that is what you're saying...pretty much...because no one at my work lives even remotely close to me so carpooling isn't an option, and like I said, there is no public transportation in my area. Your lofty ideals might work for youself in the singular, but when you start having to add other people into the equation, they're just not that realistic.

[JoeChalupa]

I just put $60 to fill up our tank on the Explorer. Thank God I've still got my Saturn that we use most of the time. It is a standard to the wife has had to learn so she can take it to work. I tele-commute most of the time now and that has really helped. But when we go out we normally take the Explorer but even now when we go to Fiesta Texas we all pile in the Saturn to save gas and $$.
I've also got the tires on my bike ready to go.

[clambake]

60 bucks ain't bad for an explorer.

i paid 4.06 a gallon today.

[Los Spurs]

There was no cutting back on Fiesta this past Saturday.
I spent $175.00 at Oyster Bake and it was only me, my husband and my niece.

NIOSA may have to wait till next year

[BigZak]

yesterday, my buddy changed out my spark plugs and wires and changed the oil on my car and removed the air filter...

my wounded lumina is back to normal! it's been over two years of sputtering cuz my deadbeat mechanic that i used to trust couldn't change damn sparkplugs correctly...

and i drive 25 miles to work and 25 back, not to mention the cruisin!

so man, i was burning 40 bux plus every 5 days...

and now it takes a 50 to fillerup.

so i'm glad i don't have to floor it to get up to 35mph anymore...

trigger rides again!!! and it's only 33 bux a month for insurance before you laugh foos!