oh how I miss my Z-34

let me count the ....miles per hour..


now I'm stuck with a 4 cycl subaru outback wagon.. *shudders* every time I drive it. I can't wait to get a v6 again or perhaps by then electric cars will be dominant in the market

 

I hear ya bro. I am still hunting for a truck.

 

No luck yet? are you finding it hard to find a bargain or what. I can imagine gas prices in California aren't appealing either.

 

I love my Truck

'02 F-150
FX off road pkg
V-8
Quad Cab
Sprayed in bedliner so I can beat the hell out of it
sun roof, etc.....

Gas mileage sucks but who cares...it's a big bad truck

 

They went from $2.65 to $2.77 Monday and my wife heard a station owner at Costco complain her wholesale price was $2.89!
That is 87 grade..... I have seen 92 octane for over $3

 

stupid gas prices... you sure you're seeing 92 octane? i thought we're stuck at 91 octane here...

 

I plunked down 2.29 last night for 87. Considering some the prices across the country, I think that's pretty good. They seriously have to do something about the rising prices.

 

It is 2.14 here and climbing. It was 2.07 on monday. And we have two damn refineries in our state. Not that it makes a diff.

 

I went to Alabama several months ago.

93 octane gas was under 2 bucks, while here it was at least 2.30 for 87.


Its pathetic that the oil companies can jack up the prices whenever the hell they want to.

I am soooo glad that my car puts out 240 ponies @87 octane and gets 28-31 mpg.

 

!!!

me wants to move to alabamy!!!

 

We have like 6 or 7 refineries in the San Francisco bay area, and it don’t help with the prices at all……but, since I haven’t driven in five years, and don’t pump any gas, don’t see the prices

 

Thats because we truck our gas in from out of state. The stuff we produce instate doesn't meet the emmission standards, go figure.

 

Yeah, I hear you guys are getting hit hard.. what's your cost per liter?

 

Here in Spain, we pay 0.87€ a liter which works out to about $4.22 a gallon for regular gas at current exchange rates.

 

90 cents per litre here, which is about $4.00 a gallon in CDN $. OUr gallon is bigger, about 4.5 litre.

 

Yeppers come to sunny Australia. $1.04c per liter and set to rise to about $1-20 per liter. That's something like $4.54 per U.S. gallon.

Stupid thing is, that we produce many times the amount of oil and gas that we need. Go figure. They may be down under here, but their prices are over the top!

 

we have a .32 per gallon tax ourselves.

 

then there's that 9/10 of a penny...

 

yeah..lol, that's so rediculous..

 

Monty Carlo?

Were you a Guido in a past life?

 

Guido? Never.. I always went against the rules. I never conformed to stereotypes though I do have one problem. When my hands move, my mouth has to open. Something in the blood I guess.

 

don't you have a private commanche courtesy of NASA?

 

Does the commissary have any flavored ethanol? You could pour some of that into the tank.

 

speed limits schmeed limits, backroads don't count.
As for the fuel prices, It's getting ridiculous here in Ohio too. About $2.39 for regular.
I like how our governor has decided to raise the taxes on fuel, as if they weren't high enough already. Nothing like crippling your economy, fuel surcharges are already killing anybody that ships truck frieght. I swear, Taft is an idiot.

 

well, looks as though the gov't is going to spike gas like they did, was it 30 years ago now? Forcing technological improvements on enegry and energy conservation. It's a good thing in a bad way.

 

$2.40/gal for 93 octane last fill (I refuse to play the 9/10 penny game). High performance V-6 that requires high octane is a downer at the pump, but gets 23 mpg city, 28 highway, which isn't too bad, and I only live 4.5 miles from work, so it's still not a major cost for me.

At some point, it makes sense to either consider cheaper running vehicles, or living closer to where you work, or both. But so far I don't hear anybody discussing those. I wonder how expensive it has to get before we change our lifestyles in some way. During the gas shortage in the 70s, when there flat wasn't ENOUGH gas, at any price, with hours-long lines at the pumps and a lot of states staggering availabilty where you could only get gas on alternating days, everybody discovered small economical cars for the first time. For a while. For the most part, we all got over it. Here in the states, our refineries are all running at full capacity, meaning they CAN'T make more withoug building new refineries. They haven't built any new ones for something like 20 years. Nobody wants one in their backyard, EPA requirements are tough, and they take a long time to build. Will we soon be grumbling about not being able to GET enough gas instead of what the price is?

 

Yes; Oil will run out pretty damnned soon; especially considering that China's consumption is fast overtaking even you guys in the US, and that's without SUV's.

(FFS, people, if you buy an SUV, then you ought to be able to afford the petrol prices as well. It's all part of a thing called planning ahead- theres no point having a car if you can't afford to run it)

*ahem*, anyway, even though the UK is a net producer of fossil fuels (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html), we still have higher prices then you guys... go figure

(oh yeah, when oil does run out... we should switch over to vegetable oil works fine.. in diesel engines, afaik. )

 

hehe yeah, vegetable oil all the way

loved how they made it run

 

they outlawed B100 here in wacko land (California). Big oil claimed it was "too unregulated" and now they have to sell B20 which has 80 % diesel, and now is $3.50 a gallon compared to the B100 at $3.00.

Willie Nelson owns a distributorship of Biodiesel (B100) in the midwest and called Art Bell one night. Great program on how the engine runs better and cleaner. Helps the American Farmer growing the soybeans, and yet big oil kills it. It must be a good thing if they went to this much effort! My friend has a turbodiesel beetle and gloats on the 46+ mpg. I told her I would run B100 if I had one. I car shop again Nov 2007. Fuel economy is a big factor on the next one.

 

hell, if it helps the farmer,go for it The big supermarkets are already killing off many of the medium (small to you yanks ) farmers over here; this will let them grow something and make some money!