Edmunds.com | Inside Line | Auto Observer Your Account | Help | Directory
You are here:
![[F]](http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/townhall/webxicons/site.gif){kind=small}
Forums
Automotive News & Views Are gas prices fueling your pain? 
10042 messages, Last post on Jul 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM
You are in the Automotive News & Views Forum. Your Hosts are steve_ & claires
|
|
|---|---|
|
Replying to: snakeweasel (May 01, 2008 4:55 pm) WOW... Talk about taking advantage of someones disadvantage... Where do I sign up? I will let people barrow at that kind of interest rate all day long, that would be a good business. Its ridiculous, but so are people and it looks proven to work so that might be something to look into for a future investment.
|
|
|
Replying to: lmpracetech (May 02, 2008 7:44 am) 
|
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (May 02, 2008 7:07 am) If you went to the link I provided you'd have read how solar panels have actually gotten more expensive over the past few years due to rapidly increasing demand and a shortage of silicon. The article went on to say that manufacturing capacity has finally caught up and we should start seeing some significant price drops in the coming years.
|
|
|
Replying to: tpe (May 02, 2008 7:53 am) When clouds cover the sun, light levels are reduced. This does not shut down power production, however. If there is enough light to cast a shadow, in spite of the clouds, your solar panels should operate at about half of their full capacity. Thicker cloud cover will reduce operations further. Eventually, with heavy cloud cover, solar panels will produce very little useful power. |
|
|
Replying to: 1stpik (May 01, 2008 12:26 pm) when gas is at say, $100 per barrel, speculator A bought a contract of 10 mil barrels. Knowing that the US$ is tanking due to the agressive interest rate cuts and the economy in a sputter, oil is going nowhere but up. Subsequently oil does go up to $105 per barrel in a short time, so speculator A unloads the contract for say at $104.75 and you do the math how much short term profit speculator A made. Since the US$ keeps tanking, many many speculators join in the game and drive up the prices of oil higher than what they're suppose to be. Now, let's guess who are the speculators. I will start with George S.
|
|
|
streets near empty. Restaurants near empty. The 20 items or less checkout at Walmart is empty and waiting for me. Catching more green lights. At red lights, nobody is driving on the crossing street. I'm waiting for nothing at those lights. Kids looking for summer jobs at empty stores and restaurants not having luck. I have a V8 with low miles on it but some other cars with little 3.8L engines that I use for longer trips. At the current rate of acquiring mileage, I'll be just breaking in the V8 when hydrogen fuel powers 50% of all cars. I am lucky to be getting 24 mpg from a smaller $2500 V6 pickup truck I got with 88,000 miles on it. Thats with outside parking in 5 degree weather. A round trip to work was still under $5 with the peak in gas prices. The $15k I saved by not getting a new 29 mpg Fusion will never be even dented by the dollar a day difference in gas costs. I just won't have the smoother quieter ride of a new car, but it is the pay later option than still works. The car for sale on the bulletin board, a '02 Civic with 93k miles for $9900? The full coverage insurance it needs will eat the gas savings. I didn't get full coverage on the truck with 88k miles on it and it cost $4-5k more than the Civic did new.
|
|
|
Replying to: andre1969 (May 02, 2008 7:49 am) I thought I had diverted y'all from all the HELOC talk but I guess not (I would have grumbled sooner buy my ISP going dark for 14 hours didn't help any  ). Let's try to relate the posts to gas prices as much as possible please. Don't get me stated on nuke cars - they are already sending radioactive sand from Kuwait to SW Idaho to store here - I can just imagine what a 10 square mile radioactive car salvage yard in the desert would look like. Hypermiling has hit Fox News and NPR is offering gas tips. More Gas 'n' dash stories out there too. Nothing earth shattering you didn't already know.
|
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (May 02, 2008 8:37 am) Maybe some salesmen for those spike-barriers the rental car parking lots use, could make some $.
|
|
|
Replying to: dave8697 (May 02, 2008 8:20 am) |
|
|
I guess we need to buy something that is super-economical, Dear. What is everyone else buying? Americans rushed to swap their thirsty trucks and SUVs for fuel-efficient cars in April, making the month a turning point for the industry’s biggest segment shift in memory. The stampede to cars left in the dust a Detroit Three that simply weren’t ready for its magnitude because of their reliance on truck-based vehicles, while it lifted Japanese automakers whose traditional strength has remained in small cars. As U.S. consumers definitively reacted to $3.50-a-gallon gasoline, passenger cars outsold truck-based vehicles for the first time in at least 20 years. The move comprised a shift of six percentage points for the industry compared with last April, to 54 percent car sales. Did the Big 3 wake up late to the party or what? Regards, OW |
|
You are here:
Forums
Automotive News & Views Are gas prices fueling your pain?
New? Join Now!
Forum Tools
Search Forums
Browse by Vehicle
Browse by Board
Browse by Topic
Today's Chats
