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| Unleaded today is $3.25, diesel is $2.50 per gallon. They mix number one & two to prevent gelling. That is the only station in the village. Access is by ice road in the winter. By airplane the rest of the year. Shows how badly we are getting gouged in most of the US on diesel. No wonder the truckers block off the freeways. The ice road is in good shape today. It is good when it stays 30 below zero as it has the last 2 weeks. It is a 70 mile drive from Prudhoe Bay, that takes 2.5 hours. | |
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Now between the wife's car and my car we put about 2800-2900 miles per month on the road. So maybe this will be a better illustration. For the year 2005, which had some pretty high gas prices in it, Quicken tells me that Auto:Fuel was about 3.3% of my total spending. Slightly less than what I paid for electricity for the year. My mortgage payments totaled about 6 times what we paid for gas for the cars. Medical expenses were about the same as gas. Interest expenses alone were over double what I paid for gas (Yes, that includes mortgage interest) Insurance (life and car) cost me almost double what I paid at the pump. And back to the grocery store, total groceries cost me over 3 times what we paid for gas for both cars. Heck, the casual $20 from the ATM just because was more than double what we paid for gas. The rising prices tick me off too, especially because of the way pricing seems to be determined in the futures market (not a big fan of panic)... but it's a close race with the "woe is us" sentiment that gets whipped up about everything anymore. 
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Shoot, we use 6 gallons a week. The kids gotta have it when they wake up and before they go to sleep. Cereal with orange juice just plain stinks.  As for that H2, james nailed it. And look at trucks in general, now the majority of the market, and getting all kinds of breaks that cars don't get. The laws were put in place to give breaks to work/fleet trucks, to keep the cost of doing business down, not for soccer moms to take their kids to the mall in these behemoths. -juice
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Replying to: ateixeira (Mar 31, 2006 1:31 pm)
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 31, 2006 1:43 pm) -juice |
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Replying to: bottgers (Mar 31, 2006 12:02 pm) me: Most individuals don't even drive 1/2 that. Higher prices are going to get people to think whether they can reduce the amount they drive (Please we don't need to get into anyone's personal reasons). Just consider why you're driving so much, and others aren't. You can also save a lot on maintenance by driving less. |
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Replying to: bottgers (Mar 31, 2006 12:02 pm) You're right there. My 2005 GMC PU is still under 2000 miles. I bought it the end of June. I did put 7700 miles on a new Passat TDI bought in April of last year. The Lexus did not go 1000 miles all year. I'm still waiting for high gas prices to alleviate the traffic. So far it has not worked. |
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 31, 2006 1:43 pm)  years ago, i used to commute 35 miles one way to work. after a while, i decided i didn't want to spend that much time in a car on a regular basis. regular gas still 2.59x x=9. |
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I'm half surprised we haven't seen any stations playing with that x= number to "undercut the competition" yet 
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Replying to: pf_flyer (Mar 31, 2006 3:59 pm)
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