Author Topic: Just filled my truck up with gas................... (Read 1145 times)

Beefcake · « **on:** May 23, 2004, 12:27:09 PM »

Just filled the old 98 Dodge up with gas as the fuel warning light as been on for the last few days.

The bill? $67.95 for 28 gallons of 87. Our state has the lowest gas prices in the nation (last time I checked).....but damn thats alot.

No real point to this post.....just thought I'd whine about something.

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:28:45 PM »

Drove past Panamint Springs on Friday. 87 octane was priced at $3.10 per gallon.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:29:59 PM »

Ummmm..no. If you had gone to the Shell station down the road and filled it with 87 octane it would have cost you $56. Still can even find it for $1.90 at some places.

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:31:41 PM »

damn that is alot of money.
lucky i dont have a car (yet)

lazs2 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:37:11 PM »

If you vote for democrats you may never have one b17.

lazs

DiabloTX · « **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2004, 12:38:11 PM »

Yeah, I'd like to have 2 B-17's.

VOTE BUSH '04!!!

Furball · « **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:01:03 PM »

28 gallons = 106 liters

Price of say, unleaded = 82p

106 * 0.82 = £87

£ 87 converts to $155.56

and there's talk of fuel bein £1.00 ($1.8 ish) a litre soon. (3.78 litre's to the gallon)

strk · « **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:01:57 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
If you vote for democrats you may never have one b17.

lazs

lol lazs

a vote for a democrat is a vote for higher mileage standards, alternative powerplant and energy research. Those hybrids, hydrogen and solar vehicles are going to get here a lot quicker if the dems are elected.

Bodhi · « **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:06:17 PM »

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Originally posted by strk
lol lazs

a vote for a democrat is a vote for higher mileage standards, alternative powerplant and energy research. Those hybrids, hydrogen and solar vehicles are going to get here a lot quicker if the dems are elected.

Yeah, but the damn demos will tax the crap out of you so that you can't afford it... but don't fret, that crack ho on the street corner who pipes kids out every 10 mos will have two with the welfare check the demos give her. Meanwhile, us hard workers will be paying $4.25 a gallon as we work our way into government dependancy and poverty!

Yeah, vote democrat, hasten the US's decline....

Morpheus · « **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:10:05 PM »

yeah Gas prices SUCK!

No fun to drive for the fun of it any more. All you hear are dollar signs when you turn the key

strk · « **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:24:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
Yeah, but the damn demos will tax the crap out of you so that you can't afford it... but don't fret, that crack ho on the street corner who pipes kids out every 10 mos will have two with the welfare check the demos give her. Meanwhile, us hard workers will be paying $4.25 a gallon as we work our way into government dependancy and poverty!

Yeah, vote democrat, hasten the US's decline....

what do you make of this:
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-welfaremothers.htm

Summary

Welfare mothers actually have less of an economic incentive to have children than nonwelfare mothers. Studies have not been able to find a correlation between family size and the size of welfare benefits. Welfare families are virtually the same size as nonwelfare families; indeed, both have been declining over the decades. The New Jersey "family cap" experiment, which denies extra benefits to mothers who have more children, appears to have no effect on the welfare birthrate.

Toad · « **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:26:11 PM »

We've been through this before; I'm sure some of yas are old enough to remember it too.

That time I actually bought a Chevy Vega and kept it two years. Ugh! What a lousy car.

Replaced it with a '76 280Z.

Like last time, this will lead to change in the automotive marketplace. Given the new tech available, it's probably going to be a good thing over all.

No pain, no gain.

(I think I'll start looking for an econobox to drive around town for the next two years while I consider what a nice reincarnation of that Z car would be.

)

Otto · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:42:50 PM »

Gas is still cheaper than bottled water.... Not that your car cares....

Gyro/T69 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:48:49 PM »

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We've been through this before; I'm sure some of yas are old enough to remember it too.

I think that's the core of the problem. Most of them aren't old enough to remember. Gas was $.34 cents a gallon when I started driving.

straffo · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2004, 02:08:50 PM »

Welcome in Europe

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