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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: jigsaw on October 10, 2004, 12:25:55 AM
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Cost me just under $40.00 to fill 7/8 of a tank today. Thinking it's time to tarp the Jeep and untarp the bike until it gets too cold to ride.
Dating myself, but I can remember when gas was $.50 /gallon.
Ok, I'm finished venting for a while
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I used to drive a full size eddie bauer edition bronco, A/C 4x4 fully loaded, It was great too drive when gas was $1 a gallon, didnt take long to switch to driving a corrola as the price slowly climbed.
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I PUMPED gas at 63.9 and people griped because I left a bug smear on the windshield. Oh yeah, it was ALWAYS a riot when they honked the horn while I checked the oil and burned my hand on the radiator cap. That never got old.
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At 9 city, 13 hwy, I put off plans to buy this:
(http://www.autopress.be/Temporaires/SALON/GENEVE/Murcielago%20Roadster_1.jpg)
decided on this instead:
(http://www.hubcapcafe.com/i/2000/vw_jac/vw_6302.JPG)
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Luckily I don't need a vehicle here at college.
But when I was home over the summer, I'd fill up weekly in my drive to work.
Right now at home its 2+ a gallon and we're not even IN Chicago yet.
Here at Charleston, IL (population, 26,000 surrounded by less than 1k pop. towns for a good 20 mi) gas is $1.95
Thank god my S-10 gets 25 mpg avg.
Rumor has it that the prices have nowhere else to go but UP.
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I'd go without Coffee and Rent before I parked up my Jeep. Lucky for us the NZ Dollar is very strong to the US Dollar helping absorbe the recent oil price hikes.
...-Gixer
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Around Labor Day the local news was saying that gas would go up over the holiday, then drop, then go back up in November.
I don't know who the geniuses are that keep raising prices on things while salaries are staying the same or getting worse, but I want some of what they're on.
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im waiting for MT to come in and blame bush.
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Once production in the Gulf of Mexico spools up we should see a drop as the hurricane season hasn't exactly been helpful to supply.
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(http://www.toyota.com/images/vehicles/prius/gallery/exterior/large/photo_8.jpg)
60mpg city 55mpg hwy
:)
its what ill drive once it gets here.. already bought it :D
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so how much is gas in NZ gixer?
BTW... your recent posts have been interesting... Was kinda shocked really..
lazs
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Originally posted by rpm
I PUMPED gas at 63.9 and people griped because I left a bug smear on the windshield. Oh yeah, it was ALWAYS a riot when they honked the horn while I checked the oil and burned my hand on the radiator cap. That never got old.
I used to own a VW Bug in the early 60's. It had a 10 gallon tank, I was never able to put more than $3 in it to fill it up.
My parents bought a '57 Chevy wagon when they first came out, my dad used to ***** about paying more than $.20 a gallon.
As Archie and Edith Bunker would sing...
'Those were the dayyyyyyys'
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wow... crying toast guy owned a vw bug in what.... the sixties? that's a shocker eh?
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
so how much is gas in NZ gixer?
BTW... your recent posts have been interesting... Was kinda shocked really..
lazs
It's $1.20 NZD a litre which works out to be about.. $3.05 USD a Gallon. Most of the cost in gas here is tax, but I guess that's the same for most countries.
Shocked in a good way or bad? :)
...-Gixer
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I remember buying gas for my car at 19 cents a gallon. After Iraq becomes our 51st state we may see prices approach that again.
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I had a Veedub too. Fastback, with the requisite hippie tapestry seat covers and sky blue paint job. I paid $400 for it and it had a $200 stereo system (8-track of course).
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Mt had a bug too in the sixties? Wow...good thing I didn't try to generalize or anything...
gixer... tax here is about 35-38 cents a gallon. fuel is about 2.00 a gallon for regular. Shocked in a good way actually.
lazs
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have no fear, in real terms, we are at 1950's prices still:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/20/sky_high_gas_prices_not_really?mode=PF
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I had several Bugs in high school. We always took a cutting torch to them, removed the body and made stumpjumpers. :aok
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I friend of mine had a bug. If you take the hood off, it makes a great jacklighting vehicle. It also went everywhere that another friends chevy 4x4 went in the sand and mud.
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don't worry, when john heinz-kerry is prez he will provide all of us with alternate fuel.
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He does have a plan(TM).
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Originally posted by lazs2
Mt had a bug too in the sixties? Wow...good thing I didn't try to generalize or anything...
lazs
Fastback .. not a bug, and it was the '70's. I ain't near as old as you.
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bugs ain't just for liberal girlie-men
I drive this everyday to work
(http://www.pogbird.com/ebay/bug8x6.jpg)
.. with the Bush '04 bumper sticker in the rear window :)
Holden McGroin
how much did you pay for that sweet van?
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Haven't been able to find mine yet, but ebay has a couple for the 3000 range. That one just sold recently.
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Wow! I guess it's all relative, but it's hilarious to hear you guys moaning about petrol at $3 a gallon.
Over here it's 82p a litre ($1.47271) x 3.78 (litres in US gal) = $5.57
:eek:
In saying that, I remember when I first started driving 13 years ago, petrol was 50p a litre. 60%+ rise in 13 years is a bit steep.
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Just wondering, what is the average salary in the US? Here in the UK, afaik, it is about £23k (about $41.5k).
Is it relative? :)
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We make much more than that. About 130K is the poverty line, the streets are paved with gold, and 84% of us are either in cattle, automobile production, petroleum, or the movie business.
The other 16% are into some form of litigation or politics.
Even lowly Austrian immigrants are virtually assured untold wealth and success in movies and politics.
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MT.. the early 70's were really the 60's.
lazs
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and glas.... most of us p[ay about 10% in income tax.
lazs
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I had a Veedub too. Fastback, with the requisite hippie tapestry seat covers and sky blue paint job. I paid $400 for it and it had a $200 stereo system (8-track of course).
'65 squareback here, jet black, with aftermarket 8-Track. :) Paid $200 for it in 1976.
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Originally posted by jigsaw
Cost me just under $40.00 to fill 7/8 of a tank today. Thinking it's time to tarp the Jeep and untarp the bike until it gets too cold to ride.
Dating myself, but I can remember when gas was $.50 /gallon.
Ok, I'm finished venting for a while
In 1976, the first year I was driving, gas was $.065 a gallon where I lived.
Today, $2.00 a gallon.
Now, when I use the inflation calculator (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/), it shows that $2.00/a gallon was $.061 a gallon in 1976.
Go figure..
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seems like every decade or so people forget just how bad those cars were and get all nostalgic about em again... they forget all the people killed when the car rolled on the freeway because wind caused it to go into dramatic under/oversteer... they forget that you couldn't take a 20 mile drive without seeing a veedub on the side of the road with it's little trunk lid open letting the smoke out from the siezed engine... they forget the anoying being behind one on the uphill and then having it tailgate you at 80 on the long downhill...
And most of all they forget that every fair sized city had a couple of shops that would swap out your worn out engine for a new one during lunch and that those shops were the busiest auto repair shops around.
lazs
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My first car was a beaten up old Ford Falcon XA Coupe, and the car I wish I'd never sold. :-(
(http://falconcoupes.tripod.com/xa/xa4.jpg)
...-Gixer
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Seems like the cost of gas didnt really jump up except for the past few years. Back in the summer several years ago I remember it actually DROPPED to 99 cents a gallon over in missouri.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
We make much more than that. About 130K is the poverty line, the streets are paved with gold, and 84% of us are either in cattle, automobile production, petroleum, or the movie business.
The other 16% are into some form of litigation or politics.
Even lowly Austrian immigrants are virtually assured untold wealth and success in movies and politics.
How do you live???? Our streets are paved with diamonds. I only work one day a week and that is just to sign for my pay which is paid straight to my Swiss bank account.
We don't use cars much because helicopters are so much more convenient. But if we did petrol costs the equivalent of $4.65 a gallon. Which is mostly tax, but is still cheaper than most of Europe.
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Originally posted by Gixer
My first car was a beaten up old Ford Falcon XA Coupe, and the car I wish I'd never sold. :-(
(http://falconcoupes.tripod.com/xa/xa4.jpg)
...-Gixer
Geez, that car was so old, it was even hosted on tripod! :D
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Originally posted by lazs2
wow... crying toast guy owned a vw bug in what.... the sixties? that's a shocker eh?
lazs
Yeah Laz, I bought a '61 bug in '63, also bought a new Tempest that year, I was 19 and had owned my own business for two years, paid cash for both cars....we liberals are a currious lot, huh?
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Originally posted by Glas
Just wondering, what is the average salary in the US? Here in the UK, afaik, it is about £23k (about $41.5k).
Is it relative? :)
Here average salary is less then $3,000 US (less then three thousand American dollars) yearly. And petrol (it's a word that civilized people use instead of "gas" ;)) costs 15 roubles ($0,5) per litre, it's approximately $2 per gallon. Natural gas for cars is about 5 rubles per litre, 3 times cheaper.
Americans reached Russian petrol prices. Now the West finally left us behind :D
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Around $1.78 per gallon here.
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bought my first house (in the bay area in California) when I was 19... big deal. things were different then. had no interest in buying a VW tho.... go figure. Had to wait 4 more years to get my own bussines.
lazs
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I can remember the gas wars. My dad ran a Standard Oil service station back then. Can recall gas prices as low as .18 a gallon.