$100 fill-up coming to pump near you

[moshquerade]

really ridiculous to be driving low mpg vehicles right now unless you have to for your business/work. i see people in Humvees driving around getting 8-10 mpg and i wonder what they are thinking.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I'm currently sitting at $60 per week from my guzzling v8 dodge and thats just to/from work + occasional trips for fun.
I'd have some serious thinking to do if it hit that $4+ mark. I love my truck but not that much.

Problem is everyone else will be doing the same. A flood of low MPG vehicles with fewer buyers=less resale value=no savings in changing vehicles.

 

[TwiceOver]

Gas would need to be more than $8 to cost me $100 to fill up. Currently gas costs me about $32/mo.

 

[ForumMaster]

we're already at about $50-$60 a fill-up. not cheap at all.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
really ridiculous to be driving low mpg vehicles right now unless you have to for your business/work. i see people in Humvees driving around getting 8-10 mpg and i wonder what they are thinking.

I see people doing lots of things that cost $$$. Most of the time I don't question them. If they are okay with it, then who am I to tell them to stop.

 

[lokiju]

I've had my Tahoe since 2001 and granted it's horrible on gas, it's still cheaper than buying a new car at this point.

At some point though, it'll become more cost effective to buy a new car that gets great MPG than not but that's probably a few years away still.

 

[ThePresence]

Prius here I come.

 

[ponyo]

I'm already paying over $100 for full fill-up. My daily driver has 32 gallon tank, and it gets about 10 mpg. High prices don't really affect me other than to irritate me.

 

[Modelworks]

Motorcycles Rule !
If only it weren't turning cold

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Motorcycles Rule !
If only it weren't turning cold

..just make shure you carry an organ donar card.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Plus, the whole argument that SUV owners are hurting the most is ridiculous. Everyone hurts a proportional amount, whether you drive a Hummer or a Civic. The amount you pay will increase by the same proportionate amount, but the difference is that someone can afford an Escalade will generally have more income than someone who drives a Geo Metro.

That's a dumb argument. Which would you rather have, 5% of a million or 10% of a thousand? I mean, the second one's a higher proportionate amount...


Also, the link between vehicle mileage and owner wealth is weak at best. There are plenty of junky SUVs and fancy economy cars out there.

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Motorcycles Rule !
If only it weren't turning cold

That's what jackets are for

50+ MPG AND great performance FTW.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I'm currently sitting at $60 per week from my guzzling v8 dodge and thats just to/from work + occasional trips for fun.
I'd have some serious thinking to do if it hit that $4+ mark. I love my truck but not that much.

Me too. I get a $60 fill up every 4 or 5 days for my v8 toyota. I love my truck, I need to get a shorter commute.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..I hope it puts an end to idiots working and getting ready for work on the freeway. It'll make the streets safer to get a bunch of reckless morons off the road.

fixed that for ya


i drove a 96 suburban 4X4 or a long time. 42 gal tank. that sucker would go about 910 miles on that tank highway. 600 in the city and about 450 offroad. id say that was a pretty good range, considering every other car ive owned was about 350-400 miles for a tank, no matter what size it was. my current truck (dodge ram 1500 with a 318 and a 26gal tank) gets about 350 a tank too. more on the highway. i got it because it works for my job and i like trucks. if i was worried about paying too much at a time to fill my tank, id have bought something smaller. those new chevy silverados (6 years older than mine) get about the same mileage, and have way less towing power/ speed. ill stick with my guzzler.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: jagec
Also, the link between vehicle mileage and owner wealth is weak at best. There are plenty of junky SUVs and fancy economy cars out there.

Also, there are PLENTY of people who spend way beyond their means for a fancy SUV and struggle to make the payments. All the while they live in some run-down apt.

 

[MovingTarget]

Highest I've hit is $74. Of course I don't normally wait until my tank is empty. '87 Caprice, 5.0v8, 21gal tank. Mileage is still better than a lot of trucks/suv's even some modern cars, but it is getting expensive. I wish I could afford another vehicle. If gas hits $4/gal the only thing I'll be able to afford to fill is a Vespa.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Highest I've hit is $74. Of course I don't normally wait until my tank is empty. '87 Caprice, 5.0v8, 21gal tank. Mileage is still better than a lot of trucks/suv's even some modern cars, but it is getting expensive. I wish I could afford another vehicle. If gas hits $4/gal the only thing I'll be able to afford to fill is a Vespa.

my brothers vespa has a 3 gal tank... 12 bucks is all you spend on gas now? :laugh:

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
Highest I've hit is $74. Of course I don't normally wait until my tank is empty. '87 Caprice, 5.0v8, 21gal tank. Mileage is still better than a lot of trucks/suv's even some modern cars, but it is getting expensive. I wish I could afford another vehicle. If gas hits $4/gal the only thing I'll be able to afford to fill is a Vespa.

my brothers vespa has a 3 gal tank... 12 bucks is all you spend on gas now? :laugh:

Hehehe... nah, just that maintainence is a bi*** sometimes. I used to be able to work on it more myself, but I live in an apt now. No garage FTL. I commute about 110mi round trip each day. Fuel is a pretty big percentage of my expenses nowadays.

 

[GoatMonkey]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
really ridiculous to be driving low mpg vehicles right now unless you have to for your business/work. i see people in Humvees driving around getting 8-10 mpg and i wonder what they are thinking.

Apparently to them, there is some value in driving a Hummer that they would not get in another car.

Fuel economy is clearly not the only thing that people look at when purchasing a car, there are a lot of other factors. You also have to consider that when they bought it, the price of gas was probably much lower than it is now.

I have always hated SUVs, but people have a right to buy them if they see some sort of value in them. It may seem crazy when looking at them at a distance, but I'm sure they had their reasons.

 

[crystal]

Deja Vu. These kind of threads always come up when gas hits a certain price mark.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: moshquerade
really ridiculous to be driving low mpg vehicles right now unless you have to for your business/work. i see people in Humvees driving around getting 8-10 mpg and i wonder what they are thinking.

I see people doing lots of things that cost $$$. Most of the time I don't question them. If they are okay with it, then who am I to tell them to stop.

where the hell in that statement does it read that I am out there telling them to stop.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: altonb1
I call Shens regarding $100 fill-ups.

Most pumps cut off at $50 or at the most $75 for credit card transactions.

never heard of that for gas, i go over 50 bucks with my camry all the time, now diesel yes that was true in Denver last year when there was a diesel shortage and pumps cut off at $75.00

 

[Tooncesthedrivingcat]

it's time like this I'm glad I drive a civic hybrid. I get around 44 mpg in the winter.

 

[mugs]

*yawn*

At $3.50 a gallon I could drive for a month for about $40.

Originally posted by: Citrix

never heard of that for gas, i go over 50 bucks with my camry all the time, now diesel yes that was true in Denver last year when there was a diesel shortage and pumps cut off at $75.00

The cutoff depends on the station. I've had to re-swipe my credit card to finish filling up when I was driving a box truck for work a few years ago.

 

[PingSpike]

Well, I'm looking forward to the used market being flooded with cheap trucks and SUVs since I'm looking at buying one in the near future.

We live a little further out then before, its a little over 20 miles commute to work for us (we car pool these days) but in the elantra that amounts to like ~130/mo for getting to work with current prices so I'm not hurting to much there.

My dodge neon is just sitting in the fucking driveway 98% of the time now, waiting to stop starting altogether. I really don't want to drive that hunk of crap any more. But we could use a truck with 4WD.

There's a ton of rangers for sale all of a sudden. I think I might end up buying one even though I was looking for a nissan recently.

 

[Juno]

wow, it takes me to fill 16 gallons for about $55.

prices in NJ FTW.