There's no hope

[Pico and ME]

I remember thinking the last time the price of gas shot up that consumers would to start to go for the smaller, less gas-guzzling cars. Ha. Some did I imagine, but not a year later what did I see? A dramatic increase in SUV's on the road. Its hilarious I tell ya.

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

I remember thinking the last time the price of gas shot up that consumers would to start to go for the smaller, less gas-guzzling cars. Ha. Some did I imagine, but not a year later what did I see? A dramatic increase in SUV's on the road. Its hilarious I tell ya.

for that very reason the Fixed Or Repaired Daily is a V-6. i get prolly 17 to 18 mpg. i can;t be without a truck and at the time i was in the market to buy it was convenient and affordable. whenever i do start that eng. job or get one for that matter i;m seriously considering a second vehicle like a jetta or a golf. something along those lines.....

[tw]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

I remember thinking the last time the price of gas shot up that consumers would to start to go for the smaller, less gas-guzzling cars.

Nonsense. Gasoline at $5 per gallon is cheap. plthijinx's V-6 does 18 MPG. What I got with a carbureted in-line six even after I designed and upgraded it with an electronic ignition ... in 1970. Forty years later and technology is no better? Exactly. Because gasoline even at $7 per gallon is so cheap.

One can ‘feel’ it is expensive. Or one can be politically incorrect, blunt, and honest. Make a decision after learning facts and numbers. Your feelings are irrelevant. (Resistance is futile. Think outside the cube.) Facts are always more important. Gasoline is so ridiculously cheap that more than eight of every 10 gallons burned in a vehicle do nothing useful. More then 8 out of every ten gallons only create heat, pollutants, and noise. Because gasoline at $10 per gallon is so ridiculously cheap.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by tw

Nonsense. Gasoline at $5 per gallon is cheap. plthijinx's V-6 does 18 MPG. What I got with a carbureted in-line six even after I designed and upgraded it with an electronic ignition ... in 1970. Forty years later and technology is no better? Exactly. Because gasoline even at $7 per gallon is so cheap.

One can ‘feel’ it is expensive. Or one can be politically incorrect, blunt, and honest. Make a decision after learning facts and numbers. Your feelings are irrelevant. (Resistance is futile. Think outside the cube.) Facts are always more important. Gasoline is so ridiculously cheap that more than eight of every 10 gallons burned in a vehicle do nothing useful. More then 8 out of every ten gallons only create heat, pollutants, and noise. Because gasoline at $10 per gallon is so ridiculously cheap.

Yeah, it does feel expensive, especially to those of us with long commutes and no public transportation.

Just another way we get screwed, in addition to making cars that suggest 30 mpg is a great deal, and the best you're going to find (when 50 mpg was easily found 15 years ago) we're supposed to feel oh so lucky that we don't have to pay 40 bucks for a gallon of gas, like in some countries where no one drives and public transport is the law of the land.

Bend over. Someone out there is not hurting from these prices, not hurtin' a'tall.

It ain't us working class, though.

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by tw

Nonsense. Gasoline at $5 per gallon is cheap. plthijinx's V-6 does 18 MPG. What I got with a carbureted in-line six even after I designed and upgraded it with an electronic ignition ... in 1970. Forty years later and technology is no better? Exactly. Because gasoline even at $7 per gallon is so cheap.

One can ‘feel’ it is expensive. Or one can be politically incorrect, blunt, and honest. Make a decision after learning facts and numbers. Your feelings are irrelevant. (Resistance is futile. Think outside the cube.) Facts are always more important. Gasoline is so ridiculously cheap that more than eight of every 10 gallons burned in a vehicle do nothing useful. More then 8 out of every ten gallons only create heat, pollutants, and noise. Because gasoline at $10 per gallon is so ridiculously cheap.

$7? $10?

you;re a fucking idiot.