GAS PRICE
#61
05-14-2008 | 11:49 AM
Rock Crawling
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 372
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From: Montrose, CO
RE: GAS PRICE
Today in Montrose, Colorado premium is $3.85. To the guy sick of hearing people scream about high fuel prices I have to say that you don't get it. It is everything else going up as a result of high oil prices since everything is either transported via gas/ diesel or made with oil based products. I have seen grocery costs go up at least 20% in the last 6 months as fuel costs are passed on. Airlines are going out of business and ticket costs are skyrocketing. If it was just high gas and nothing else then we could live with it but the entire economy in this country is teetering due to high energy costs. Maybe your salary is going up but mine is not. I work at a business where we are getting concerned that may might close up as costs escalate for everything. We laid off 80 awhile back and all are running scared. It is not just gas prices. It is the entire economy and our jobs on the line.
#62
05-14-2008 | 12:16 PM
RE: GAS PRICE
ORIGINAL: bearcatfans
Just to be the counter-point here.......All I hear everyday at work, the grocery, the radio, the stupid Liberal media that has led the "Consumer Panic Campaign of '08" and everywhere else is how the world is coming to an end because we all have to pay more for gas. This all seems crazy to me.
Ifan SUV cost $45-50 to fill up two years ago and now costs $75-80 to fill up now, that comes to approx $1300 a year more which comes to an extra $25-30 per week! We smoke cigarettes at $5 a pack and talk on luxury-item cell phones for $50+ a month and have digital TV signals costing $75-100 a month but no one says a darn thing about any of that - why is the cost of fuel so special? I guess we are lucky considering the fuel prices around the world.
To blame the president who would like to drill and produce more crude here and cannot does not make alot of sense. (The area of Alaska that would be "disturbed" by drilling there is the same size area as a postage stamp sitting in the corner of a football field endzone) As long as we keep buying oil from people who hate us and want to kill us, we will have problems with prices. Furthermore, even if we do produce it here, who wants the government 'regulating' what the free enterprise companies can charge for it? Not me. I don't want to live in that kind of country.
The market should determine what a gallon of gas will fetch, so as long as we need it to fuel our love of driving, IT IS WHAT IS IS. By the way, what should gas cost and why? Anyone.....anyone.......anyone. If I hear one more person here in my town cry about losing their home, job, cars, pets because their fuel costs are $25-30 more per week, I will vomit!!
93 octane forever.
Aaron
2003 SE7 Discovery
Just to be the counter-point here.......All I hear everyday at work, the grocery, the radio, the stupid Liberal media that has led the "Consumer Panic Campaign of '08" and everywhere else is how the world is coming to an end because we all have to pay more for gas. This all seems crazy to me.
Ifan SUV cost $45-50 to fill up two years ago and now costs $75-80 to fill up now, that comes to approx $1300 a year more which comes to an extra $25-30 per week! We smoke cigarettes at $5 a pack and talk on luxury-item cell phones for $50+ a month and have digital TV signals costing $75-100 a month but no one says a darn thing about any of that - why is the cost of fuel so special? I guess we are lucky considering the fuel prices around the world.
To blame the president who would like to drill and produce more crude here and cannot does not make alot of sense. (The area of Alaska that would be "disturbed" by drilling there is the same size area as a postage stamp sitting in the corner of a football field endzone) As long as we keep buying oil from people who hate us and want to kill us, we will have problems with prices. Furthermore, even if we do produce it here, who wants the government 'regulating' what the free enterprise companies can charge for it? Not me. I don't want to live in that kind of country.
The market should determine what a gallon of gas will fetch, so as long as we need it to fuel our love of driving, IT IS WHAT IS IS. By the way, what should gas cost and why? Anyone.....anyone.......anyone. If I hear one more person here in my town cry about losing their home, job, cars, pets because their fuel costs are $25-30 more per week, I will vomit!!
93 octane forever.
Aaron
2003 SE7 Discovery
AMEN TIMES ONE MILLION. You hit the nail on the head. Lets take a look at the real facts and you will see who is really at fault....
No one likes these prices and it really is hurting some, but until the liberals let us drill for oil in Alaska NOTHING is going to change. And to blame the President for the gas prices is rediculous, trust me he doesnt set them himself.
#63
05-14-2008 | 12:38 PM
TReK
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,111
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From: Dallas TX
RE: GAS PRICE
ORIGINAL: Spike555
I dont know about the rest of the country, but Chrysler is offering $2.99 a gallon for the next 3 years if you buy a new car or trk. Are they desperate to sell cars or what?
I dont know about the rest of the country, but Chrysler is offering $2.99 a gallon for the next 3 years if you buy a new car or trk. Are they desperate to sell cars or what?
Here in Dallas TX I paided $3.89 for 93 octane and
4.19 gal diesel but that was last week.
#66
05-14-2008 | 01:10 PM
TReK
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,111
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From: Dallas TX
RE: GAS PRICE
ORIGINAL: riden686
you guys are lucky, i cant find 93 oct anywhere in town, and i pay 4.01 plus for my 91 and usually an octane booster on tpo of that. I'm hopeing my newO2 sensors will help my mpg a little.
you guys are lucky, i cant find 93 oct anywhere in town, and i pay 4.01 plus for my 91 and usually an octane booster on tpo of that. I'm hopeing my newO2 sensors will help my mpg a little.
#67
05-14-2008 | 01:30 PM
Recovery Vehicle
Joined: Sep 2007
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RE: GAS PRICE
I met a guy the other day (at Subway) who had driven down from the Twin Cities on 'grease', which is about 5hrs away from me. He converted his Jetta TDI over to dual-fuel (diesel/oil) so he was running on straight waste french fry vegitable oil. I too have a Jetta TDI, that's how we got talking about it,but it was the first time I'd see the conversion first hand and talked to someone who had been doing it for a couple years. He said he doesn't have any problem finding the grease (plus he gets 42-50mpg so doesn't need that much). It's too bad there weren't more LR TDi's shipped to this country. They'd be really 'hot' now. I'm just curious how many miles/galDisco TDI's get? I know guys with full-sized Chevy Diesel Tksthat get 22-25mpg.
Mark G
Mark G
#68
05-14-2008 | 02:39 PM
TReK
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,111
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From: Dallas TX
RE: GAS PRICE
ORIGINAL: Mark G
I met a guy the other day (at Subway) who had driven down from the Twin Cities on 'grease', which is about 5hrs away from me. He converted his Jetta TDI over to dual-fuel (diesel/oil) so he was running on straight waste french fry vegitable oil. I too have a Jetta TDI, that's how we got talking about it,but it was the first time I'd see the conversion first hand and talked to someone who had been doing it for a couple years. He said he doesn't have any problem finding the grease (plus he gets 42-50mpg so doesn't need that much). It's too bad there weren't more LR TDi's shipped to this country. They'd be really 'hot' now. I'm just curious how many miles/galDisco TDI's get? I know guys with full-sized Chevy Diesel Tksthat get 22-25mpg.
Mark G
I met a guy the other day (at Subway) who had driven down from the Twin Cities on 'grease', which is about 5hrs away from me. He converted his Jetta TDI over to dual-fuel (diesel/oil) so he was running on straight waste french fry vegitable oil. I too have a Jetta TDI, that's how we got talking about it,but it was the first time I'd see the conversion first hand and talked to someone who had been doing it for a couple years. He said he doesn't have any problem finding the grease (plus he gets 42-50mpg so doesn't need that much). It's too bad there weren't more LR TDi's shipped to this country. They'd be really 'hot' now. I'm just curious how many miles/galDisco TDI's get? I know guys with full-sized Chevy Diesel Tksthat get 22-25mpg.
Mark G
Check out http://www.tdiclub.com/
one person pulled apart his motor and the carbon on the valves from the fry oil was BAD.
Look under (Alternative Diesel Fuels).
I'm "2slowtdi".
#69
05-14-2008 | 05:44 PM
Drifting
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 29
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From: Springfield, MO
RE: GAS PRICE
91 octane @ $3.92/gal - Springfield, MO
Roverrocks is right - for a lot of us its not just the gas prices. It's everything. Gas is often just easiest to complain about because typically the price rises at a rate of 10% each year, however the price rose 85% in the last year alone (roughly 250% in the last 5-6 years). As for bearcatfans I don't understand your rant...I mean, for anyone who is sick of hearing people complain about high gas prices, a forum labeled "GAS PRICE" is an odd place to choose to go.
Roverrocks is right - for a lot of us its not just the gas prices. It's everything. Gas is often just easiest to complain about because typically the price rises at a rate of 10% each year, however the price rose 85% in the last year alone (roughly 250% in the last 5-6 years). As for bearcatfans I don't understand your rant...I mean, for anyone who is sick of hearing people complain about high gas prices, a forum labeled "GAS PRICE" is an odd place to choose to go.
#70
05-14-2008 | 05:51 PM
RE: GAS PRICE
OK, this wasnt meant to be a political post, two things you never discuss with your friends or family, politics and religon. Now with that being said, here are my two cents...
Drilling for oil in AK is not the answer. There is only enough oil there to last us about a year.
And an extra $25 per week when you dont have an extra $25 per week may as well be a million dollars. Do I not buy gas or groceries for my family?
Dumped digital cable and went with basic, slowed the internet down, no land line just cell phone, reduced the amount of insurance on the cars, no usung the central air, used blankets and kept the house cold all winter, and still cannot afford to leave the city because wages are not going up. Milk went from $1.60 per gallon to over $3.00, costs more to truck, costs more to feed the cows, cost more to plant the field, costs more..., costs more...
We need to get out of Iraq. They dont want us there so they are raising their price on crude, eventually we will get the hint, but not as long as we have a person who supports big companies over the little guy.
Drilling for oil in AK is not the answer. There is only enough oil there to last us about a year.
And an extra $25 per week when you dont have an extra $25 per week may as well be a million dollars. Do I not buy gas or groceries for my family?
Dumped digital cable and went with basic, slowed the internet down, no land line just cell phone, reduced the amount of insurance on the cars, no usung the central air, used blankets and kept the house cold all winter, and still cannot afford to leave the city because wages are not going up. Milk went from $1.60 per gallon to over $3.00, costs more to truck, costs more to feed the cows, cost more to plant the field, costs more..., costs more...
We need to get out of Iraq. They dont want us there so they are raising their price on crude, eventually we will get the hint, but not as long as we have a person who supports big companies over the little guy.