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Automotive News & Views Are gas prices fueling your pain? 
10042 messages, Last post on Jul 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM
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| ...already has premium gasoline at $4.09 a gallon per the news show I watched this morning. | |
by consolidating errands. Ended up hitting the gas station, doing my weekly beer run, and picking up cigs for my roommate all in one trip. Unfortunately, I did it in a '76 LeMans that gets about 10 mpg in local driving.  I'll tell ya what's really incredible, is how much cigarettes have gone up! A pack of Marlboro Medium is now something like $5.59! They were running a sale on menthol, but the guy at the liquor store didn't recommend getting those for someone who's not used to them. I ended up getting him some Parliament, which was running a sale of 2 for $5.99. It wouldn't surprise me to find out my roommate's cigarette habit costs more per year than my fuel bill! Oh, as for the gas? 93 octane at the local Shell came out to $3.679 per gallon. |
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Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm) I think highly of Honda products. Whether it's a lawnmower, generator, motorcycle, outboard motor, personal watercraft, and cars. If you think about it, Honda 225HP outboard will get a max 4mpg pushing a boat. Since many offshore boats have two handing on the back, make that 2mpg. Regardless, I love boating and am just throwing this out there. Honda does make so called gas hogs. Besides, honda needs someone to build a vehicle that can tow the boats they put their outboards on. BTW, a 225HP Honda outboard costs more than a Civic. Not going to tow a Honda PWC with a CNG Civic. Besides, it doesn't bother me to fill up my Suburban, so I'll keep driving it. Is CNG really that great to power our cars. My NG bill in the winters are high enough. No free lunch. |
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Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm) That's not an option where I live; and probably for many people. The gas company lines stop about 40 miles east only serving a few cities. The main fuel used here in homes is oil, followed by propane, and then wood. A lot of the natural gas that is available here in New England is brought in liquified on tankers. Needless to say not many communities want to harbor this process due to the tanks and the danger. Security is very high when these tankers come in, so that someone doesn't do a "Cole-type" attack and create a mile-wide fireball. In Boston they even close a major bridge while a tanker passes underneath. And as far as those 36" delivery pipes go, how do you protect thousands of miles of those if terrorists decide to one day knock those out (for a week or so), and thus bring the transport in the nation to a stop? |
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Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm) "Natural gas production in the United States peaked in 1971. Since then Canada has increasing supplied the United States to 15 percent of its needs in 2002. However, in 2002 Canadian gas production declined. That trend continued in 2003. Currently, 80 percent of all wells are drilled for gas not oil, but in spite of this increased effort the production decline has not been reversed. The amount of gas found per foot drilled has also declined 50 percent in the past decade indicating that the easy-to-find large fields have already been discovered. New gas wells are showing decline rates as high as 80 percent the first year." -Originally published in Natural Resources Research Here is another good article, including the follow-up questions and answers... How the coming home heating crisis could threaten the grid
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Replying to: chadx (Apr 18, 2008 6:24 am) I'll continue to drive my Honda  and laugh every time I drive by a fuel/gas station
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Replying to: lbeaver (Apr 18, 2008 6:50 am) |
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Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm) Except for the fact that neither agency has anything what so ever to do with the vehicles the manufactures choose to make or what citizens choose to purchase. It is actually the publics demand that decides what manufactures build. No one buys any SUVs? Then they stop making them. Demand for econo-cars skyrockets? They step up production of those models and put more R&D into that category (remember there is a 3 to 5 year lead time on what rolls off the assembly line). If certain models sat on dealer lots and didn't sell, you can be they would make less of them. But when everyone that walks in buys a V8 rather than a V6 in a vehicle, or a V6 rather than an inline 4, that is what the manufactures build. Blame your neighbor, not gov. agencies. Supply and demand, remember? |
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Coming to a full stop at intersections wastes gas, right? So let's either legalize California stops or swap a bunch of stop signs out for yield signs. No one stops at them anyway: Does anybody really stop at stop signs? (Straightline) (Dang Andre, beer, cigs and gas. That's three bad "addictions" you have going there.  )
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 18, 2008 7:36 am) You forgot the worst - Mopar tanks!
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