How Are High Gas Prices Effecting You.....

[AFA]

Well they actually make progress in those type things. Recycling is another.

I saw something on TV this morning about an electric care priced at $98k, that can go 200 miles on a charge and 0-60 in 4 seconds. Then GM showed their new electric car that would go 40 and it didn't seem to impress me as they bragged about it. David Pogue the commentator asked what happened to the GM EV1 which met with a relative amount of success. It was taken back and crushed, so goes GM's commitment to environmentally friendly vehicles.

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

 

[Legzman]

I used to laugh at those in a geo metro...now I really wouldn't mind having one.

Also I put 20 bucks in the tank a week, gets me to work and back all week and thats about it! I make NO extra trips now! Anything I need to get I get it on the way home from work!

 

[AFA]

I used to laugh at those in a geo metro...now I really wouldn't mind having one.

Also I put 20 bucks in the tank a week, gets me to work and back all week and thats about it! I make NO extra trips now! Anything I need to get I get it on the way home from work!

I used to go for very long rides on a real budget, so was always laughing at people next to me filling up some gargantuan monster with the chrome trim peeling off while I could zip around them like a bee buzzing an elephant, for about 1/4 the cost. 40+ mpg is quite funny I know!

My dick is already plenty big, thank you.

 

[Mauser98k]

i no longer use premium in my Firebird

 

[senob44]

Who Killed the Electric Car?

It was the Stonecutters! Well, they held it back at least.

Personally, I have been using less gas lately by taking less unnecessary trips. I LOVE to drive, you see, and I have my favorite roads and highways I like to drive every once in awhile whether I need to or not. It's a compulsion. Therefore, alot of my driving is unnecessary pleasure driving. I've cut alot of that out and neglected roads I like that are further away. They'll do OK without me. The last thing I will do is get a smaller car. I feel safer in a mid-size sedan and plus my height and size makes smaller cars very uncomfortable. Personally, I'm encouraged at the better fuel economy I have seen develop in mid-size cars like the chrysler sebring for instance. When my current car goes, that's the type of thing I'll probably get.

 

[free4440273]

Oil reached an all time high of $84 yesterday :eek:

 

[McRocket]

I sold my 500 horsepower Dodge Ram SRT-10 2 door (sniff). Now I drive a 4 cyl. Chevrolet Cobalt (sniff sniff).

Gas wasen't the main reason. But it was in there.

 

[slowhand]

I say lets all start riding bikes to work and were ever we have to go and run them out of business.



yeah those gas prices are out of control more up then down.

 

[senob44]

How are high gas prices affecting me? Well I'm getting along swimmingly now. In fact, an ExxonMobil rep came over the other day and offered me a lucrative contract for my gas supply. The techs came over today, and although the hook-up was a little painful (my ass is still sore), I'd say it's worth it.

I know...:lame:

 

[panther]

Don't own a car anymore so I don't pay at the pump, however the price of consumer goods (baked items and milk, holy shit!) are getting out of hand.

 

[Facetious]

Some.

It would be much cheaper if we had 30 - (?) million less people here (most that drive brand spankin new Tahoes, Denalis, Escalades along with full size long bed work (contractor type) trucks. (1)Who exactly are these people and (2)what are they doing here ?


1. The people who are here to do the jobs that Americans won't do" -
More of the endless Bushit that comes out of AWashington


2."To cut costs" - what the corporatists would like you to believe as their, (CEO, CFO, Top tier types) personal holdings / assets have absolutely skyrocketed upward, as the middle class is diminished.

The making of an Oligarchy, IMO

Would anybody care to ask / tell us how #s 1 & 2 are related to the thread title ?

Take Care ~

 

[AFA]

Don't own a car anymore so I don't pay at the pump, however the price of consumer goods (baked items and milk, holy shit!) are getting out of hand.

Grain has gone up. But so will everything else very soon, but there's no poverty in America, just people not born with a silver spoon in their hand. The rest of us just stay poor and dependent on what paychecks we do get.

 

[Becks...poamr]

They're not effecting me much. I don't have my own car, so I don't drive that often.

However, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to try to convince the man of the household that he does NOT have to go out for a drive every damn day.

How are high gas prices affecting me? Well I'm getting along swimmingly now. In fact, an ExxonMobil rep came over the other day and offered me a lucrative contract for my gas supply. The techs came over today, and although the hook-up was a little painful (my ass is still sore), I'd say it's worth it.

So THAT'S what goes on when I'm at work. :eek:

 

[marquis2]

I don't know what the present price is in the US but in the UK it's hovering around £1 a litre which is $2 ; this works out at around $7 a US gallon.
The US just doesn't have high price fuel yet , that may be a treat in store for you though!
I just changed my car for a diesel. Same size, weight and make.But I'm getting over twice as many miles per gallon.
But in the UK people just pay whatever it costs and carry on as before.Fuel costs are only a very small proportion of overall vehicle running costs. I believe the Automobile Association puts the figure at 19%

 

[pathfinder]

They bring my blood pressure up at the pumps and driving by the signs... beyond that... I'm not sure I really feel the weight of them in my wallet.