Today crude prices closed at an all time high of $90.60. Gas prices will follow it pretty soon. You would have already seen a $0.10 cent increase in the last ten days. I have posted some articles and ideas in my discussion board -
My ZJ gets better mileage at about 60-65. Most wastage is bad driving habits at lower speed. Racing from stoplight to stoplight can cut your mileage in half. Synthetic lubes, higher tire pressures, clean air filters, replaced O2 sensors, all go a long way to better economy.
Another way to lighten the fuel budget is taking lunch to work at least twice a week. Where I am it takes at least a six mile trip to get someplace that serves good food for lunch. So if I eat out every day that's 12 miles a day, 60 miles a week. For me that's about $13 a week in gas and $30-40 in food.
Yeah, right, sure it does.
Your dreaming. BTW, gas will store for a pretty long time if it is keep sealed. It is when it is open to atmoshpere that it has a short shelf life. Do not hold your breath for lower prices as they are here to stay and expect $4 bucks a gallon or more in a few years tops. Bes tway to deal with it is dump SUV's as daliy drivers and use a econbox and save the hog for weekends and such. I have thee 4x4s (two streetable) but they are not daily drivers as I have 4 cylinder cars for that.
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That's where I'm going with my next car. Gonna keep the ZJ as my toy and get a smalleconoputtabout for the commute. Something in the 40-50 mpg range.
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I have missed accidents on smaller manuverable cars that I would have never avoided in a big lead sled. To suggest that you need a 3 ton 10 MPG tank to be safe and get to work and store is plan stupid and has helped get us in the gas mess we are in today.
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Uh huh. There is no "gas mess". As supplies decline prices rise. That is the way of things and no matter what we drive, if it burns gasoline then eventually that point would be reached. If everybody rode a mo-ped then it might have come later, if everybody drove an
18-wheeler it might have come sooner, all that driving habits affect is the when. Eventually the price will rise to a level where something else will replace it and the "mess" as you call it will end.
hey dumbass gas now in all states is a winter and summer blend mandated by the epa and they can not remix the gas so they have to sell it that is why we see gas prices drop at the seasons change even though oil has been more than
70 dollars a barrel which usually has gas above 3 dollars a gall> >You're wasting your breath talking to SnoMan on any topic.
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I don't remember any "gas glut" when the double-nickel went in.
Oh but there is a mess because we use too much of it. The US has less than 5% of world population and yet uses about 30% of the oil used in world. Detriot has done a fine job convincing you that you need a 4x4 SUV to go to work and WalMart. To put this into perspective, the amount of "oil" we use everyday here would now file up about 100,000 semi tanker trucks a day, every day just to keep up. (7,000 gallon capacity each truck). The means to fill/supply this amount every day is not limitless. Teen add in another aprrox 350,000 truck for rest of worlds usage and you have over 450,000 truck loads a day. (or about just under 400,000 cubic yards of oil a day in US or about about 2 million cubic yards a day for world. Like it or not, beleive it or not we are reach the limit of our abilty to pump it out of the ground on a global scale and that happen prices will skyrocket. Should happen in 2008 or no later than 2009. Grain fuel is not anaswer because if it was all converted to fuel (a stupid idea too) it would only meet about
1/3 of US demand (politicains never tell you that either) and even no food prices are starting to climb becuase grain prices are climbing because some is going to fuel. I could go on but what is the point as you likely beleive like others that supply is unlimited and will never run out, just like global warming is not man made either. BTW, if you say there is a lot of oil to be had, if the entire Alaskan refuge could be pumped dry (the one they want to drill) it only has at most a 6 month supply of oil for use if used exclusively and at peak output (which would take several years) it would supply less than 1% of US oil needs for a few year. More can be gained through conservation than trying to tap that pipe.----------------- TheSnoMan.com
No matter how much you conserve, it's going to run out. Get used to it, it's going to run out. No matter what you do, it's going to run out.
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