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#8564 of 8805 Re: Another price jump [fintail] by fezo Jun 02, 2009 (3:27 pm)
Replying to: fintail (Jun 02, 2009 9:38 am) I have a friend who takes the cost per mile to extremes. Of course he is in a state where he has to pay property tax on the car every year so his method really makes sense. He buys a cheap but dependable used car and drives it forever. Has a old Volvo 850 that he paid maybe $3,500 for. He's put on 110K himself and it hasn't taken major repair. His cost of ownership is minuscule.
#8565 of 8805 Re: Another price jump [larsb] by berri Jun 02, 2009 (4:11 pm)
Replying to: larsb (Jun 02, 2009 9:25 am) Its not speculators per se, but Wall Street manipulators and dumb government. Laugh if you want, but until the commodity exchange rule changes (incidently I believe these happened under Clinton and Gore even though Bush always gets the blame) when you bought commodity futures you had to either find a buyer before your option expired or take delivery. Under those rules we didn't have near the volatility and extremes. Now risk is substantially reduced encouraging profiteering while Wall Street greed screws average middle class working Americans yet again. When Wall St. greed works the US citizens get shafted so the privileged "few" get extraordinary wealth and when Wall St. breaks the average American has to subsidize those who were just screwing them over with government loans, tax breaks, etc. Replies to this message: jae5 (Jun 04, 2009 4:44 am)
#8566 of 8805 Re: National Average up [larsb] by explorerx4 Jun 02, 2009 (4:42 pm)
Replying to: larsb (Jun 02, 2009 6:23 am) it starts out with sqealing a little rubber. next thing you know, you are going to have an affair with a muscle car.
#8567 of 8805 Re: Another price jump [fintail] by jae5 Jun 04, 2009 (4:40 am)
Replying to: fintail (Jun 02, 2009 9:38 am) Our premium is now going for $3.10 in my neck of the woods - had another price jump yesterday - 87 octane is now average $2.86, with some already at $2.90. The city is much higher still. We've pretty much jumnped a dollar in the last month!!   I'm lucky my daily driver only needs and likes 87 octane. My Olds likes 89 but I fed it 87 last night.
#8568 of 8805 Re: Another price jump [berri] by jae5 Jun 04, 2009 (4:44 am)
Replying to: berri (Jun 02, 2009 4:11 pm) Agreed. It's all about their short, big gain - not thinking ahead of how this will effect everyone. We average, middle Americans get screwed coming and going. Maybe that's where the phrase originated - money guys sitting around at the club trying to figure out how to screw the little man. Then someone comes up with the scheme and says "With this, we can get them coming and going...muh-ha-ha-ha".
#8569 of 8805 Phoenix by larsb Jun 04, 2009 (6:28 am)
16 days = +60 cents. Crazy. The last time it went up that fast was Katrina.   Well, at least more people might start thinking AGAIN about fuel efficiency and buying a more efficient vehicle. Replies to this message: fintail (Jun 04, 2009 6:37 am)
#8570 of 8805 Re: Phoenix [larsb] by fintail Jun 04, 2009 (6:37 am)
Replying to: larsb (Jun 04, 2009 6:28 am) Was there a big change in supply or demand that we missed? Or some disaster that the news media didn't catch?   Or do some people just feel entitled to a bigger yacht? Hang em high...
#8571 of 8805 Good one here (central VA) by 210delray Jun 04, 2009 (9:12 am)
RUG at Sheetz increased from $2.39 to $2.45 yesterday. At the same time, diesel went up from $2.19 to the same $2.45. So much for the brief window when diesel was less than RUG.   I think the cheapest for RUG around here is about $2.39 today, and I've put off filling up any of my cars for the last couple of weeks ... not running on empty yet.   I've said it many times before: the only thing predicable about gas prices is that they are completely unpredictable.
#8572 of 8805 Up again? by lemko Jun 04, 2009 (11:52 am)
Fuel prices rose two cents since this morning at the Sunoco station on Rising Sun and Longshore in NE Philly. At 8 AM, RUG = $2.49, at 12:30 PM it's $2.51! Nuts!
#8573 of 8805 Re: National Average up [gagrice] by andre1969 Jun 04, 2009 (12:20 pm)
Replying to: gagrice (Jun 01, 2009 8:57 pm) Oh my total cost per mile on that '67 Catalina is probably hideous, simply because it's more of a fair weather toy than daily driver material. It gets about 10 mpg in mostly local driving, although it has broken 17 on the highway.   Premium fuel is currently going for around $2.70 per gallon around here, so this thing would cost me 27 cents per mile just in fuel!   I've been keeping track of my 2000 Intrepid's expenses, and over the ~9.5 years and ~146,000 miles I've had it, it's come out to around 22 cents per mile, plus gas/insurance, for a total of around 34 cents per mile.   At the rate I drive these days though, just about any car is going to have a pretty bad cost per mile. Most of my driving is local, and any money that I put into repairs (or a car payment, if I had one) is going to get amortized over fairly few miles.   I probably drive about 600 miles per month right now. So if I were to get a new car, my cost per mile would be about 16.7 cents per mile, per $100 of car payment. PLUS gas, insurance, maintenance, repairs, etc. So you might be right after all... something like a Toyota Camry Hybrid might actually end up costing me a fortune, on a CPM basis!

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