OMG, $57.75 to fill my Camry up.

[zerocool84]

It takes $45 to fill up my car but it's only a 12.5 gallong tank, takes premium, and gets really crappy gas mileage whenever I boost which is fairly often. SO HA!!!!!

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: owlface

Originally posted by: huberm
be grateful you dont have a toyota tundra like me. 26 gallons to fill up, 17mpg highway/15 city.

the cost of gas caused the value of the truck to go down. The loan is now upside down. It would be hard to find a buyer because no one is buying trucks right now.

My solution? For the time being, I bought a cheap geo metro for under $1k to drive around, while the truck mostly just sits in my driveway. I'm not quite sure yet what to do with the truck.

Why did you buy that truck in the first place?

It was trendy for awhile to buy big trucks and SUVs despite their poor gas mileage. The worst part of the trend was the increased demand for those trucks with 6 wheels (4 wheels on the wheel axle). Those trucks look HIDEOUS, and it's impossible to sneak past them if you want to make a right turn and there's no right turn lane.

All of those people are paying dearly for their stupid choices now. The only people I pity in this situation are the truck owners who have a legitimate reason for owning a truck (ie they haul things).

 

[lokiju]

It usually cost me $75 to fill up and I usually fill up when I have 1/4 of a tank left.

Having a 30 gallon tank sucks ass atm but it's still cheaper to keep my '99 Tahoe than buy a new car with high monthly payments.

The longer time goes by the closer it gets to being more practical to get a high MPG car, but that time has not yet come.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Baked
2.4L I4 engine FTW! $40 to fill up.

You realize you don't fill the engine dumbass.

Tank is what matters.

:roll: <^>

Originally posted by: hanoverphist


10 gallon tank? sounds kind of small...


i fill up weekly, have a 26 gallon tank and drive about 350 miles on it. usually i pay about 68-70 bucks a week on it. i dont bitch, its my choice. would i love to see prices go down again? hell yes. will i all of a sudden start car pooling/ riding public transpo and the like? hell no. this is a work truck as well as my personal vehicle, and im not willing to carry around all the tools and crap i have in my truck to share mileage with someone else, even if there was another employee in my area to share with.

Nah, it's a 14 gal tank, but I never wait till the light comes on, I fill up when it's down to the last block on the gauge.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Baked
2.4L I4 engine FTW! $40 to fill up.

You realize you don't fill the engine dumbass.

Tank is what matters.

:roll: <^>

my I4 2.4L was over $50 last fillup at about 15gallons. $3.649 a gallon.

Also tank size really doesn't matter when one says it's expensive to fill up either though....it really matters how much you get to the gallon and if anything the larger tank lets you buy fuel at a lower cost right now with gas going up almost daily.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Queasy

4) Build more refinery capacity

LOL, refineries CUT production last week because they complained that profits and margins were TOO LOW!

The world is using 400,000 less barrels per day than last year and US is using less for the first time since 1991. Also, gasoline supplies are 9% above the historical "norms". Falling dollar, speculative trading and asshat's middle east adventures have caused this. The president of OPEC has stated that prices will fall once bush is out of office (not suprising).

 

[alkemyst]

gas pricing has nothing to do with a shortage anymore than diamond pricing does.

Even in Iraq they charge our soldiers over double the price for gas that their homeboys can buy it at, while we are paying to protect them (which is really we are paying to make a profit)...

This whole war is really about money I would have thought most of our members would have known that.

The thing that pisses me off about this war is the soldier recycling...you are basically in until you die it seems. A marine reservist worked for us, older guy with kids...he was over 5 times, last I spoke to him he was sent back over. Each time other guys from his group died and they had been recycled a few times prior...all older guys that wanted to be military career dudes joining during a time of peace.

sucks.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

My goodness, what a thread! I now know that a Camry is a "high end model", Britney Spears is talented, and if my daughter should ever complain about milk costing $10 a gallon, I will simply tell her to kill 1 or 2 of my grandchildren. We all must do our part, and never complain.
To the OP, might I suggest a $8000 solar powered skateboard, and a $ 800.000 card board box closer to where you work.

 

[Synomenon]

It cost me $35 to fill up my Yaris hatchback's almost completely empty tank yesterday. When I got my Yaris it only cost $25 to fill it up. I need to start looking at getting an Aygo or Smart! 😛

 

[jagec]

Yeah, the other day it cost me $16 to fill up my bike. $16! That's more than my monthly insurance premium!

 

[DVad3r]

I paid 76 $ last time to fill my Lexus up, don't feel bad, that's a record for me.

 

[hoihtah]

$79+ for my e420. i get 15-18mpg on it. at $4.05/gal, it's easy to see how we're all working for gas.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Engineer
The president of OPEC has stated that prices will fall once bush is out of office (not suprising).

What is that?! A light at the end of the tunnel? OMG... oh-emm-geeeee.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: alkemyst
i'd be more concerned having to drive a camry.

WTF does that even mean?

- The only thing that looks better than a Camry is a sports car
- They have some of the highest safety ratings on the market
- The MPG is superb
- I have much more power in my V6 '95 Camry than most cars on the road (unless you're of the incorrect belief that most cars are vipers)

Where are the cons?

Wow, that's a whole lot of crap you just made up.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: Queasy

4) Build more refinery capacity

LOL, refineries CUT production last week because they complained that profits and margins were TOO LOW!

The world is using 400,000 less barrels per day than last year and US is using less for the first time since 1991. Also, gasoline supplies are 9% above the historical "norms". Falling dollar, speculative trading and asshat's middle east adventures have caused this. The president of OPEC has stated that prices will fall once bush is out of office (not suprising).

valero is providing guidance between 10 cents and 35 cents a share. well below the estimate of 98 cents a share and even further below what they made last year.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Mahaguru

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: ViperVin2
carpool, take the bus, bike, or walk

prices will continue to stay high so better get used to it

1. nobody i work with lives where i do
2. no bus service
3. 35 miles 1 way, i dont think so
4. 35 miles, defiantly not

not everybody lives in the city or close to where the work is.

keep your blanket solution in mind the next time you pay more for your food because truckers are spending $1,000 to fill their tanks every 24 or so hours.

That's the lifestyle you chose, and you are now paying for it.

Some chose to live in cities where they had options to live close to work and take public transportation, while some chose to live far away from the city and commute everyday.

So the solution is to jam everyone up in the cities and bulldoze everything outside of the city zones?

No the solution is for the cities to build mixed-use infrastructure so that living in the city becomes more tenable. Therefore the dinosaurs who still buy into sprawl and suburbanism can live out their lives wastefully outside city limits while the population as a whole moves on and adapts to a changing reality.

:disgust:
wow just wow....

Why wow just wow? Is it that you think that suburbia is sustainable, or is it that you believe that integrated urban living is impossible?

Or is it that you think that you really need 1/2 acre and a driveway to be happy?

Do you think that's air you're breathing?

 

[Modelworks]

Anyone watched the road warrior lately ?