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Automotive News & Views How does gas at $4 and higher impact you?
2175 messages, Last post on Nov 05, 2009 at 3:05 PM
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 01, 2008 4:12 pm) Lets see if I have this right. The Prius and the Insight came out in 2000? Was fuel more or less expensive in 2000. So we have now seen $4.00 gas and just about everyone is making a hybrid and hybrids might suffer? The CEO of Toyota stands in front of the cameras and says he is committed to having a hybrid of every model of Toyota and we should worry that suddenly everyone is going to abandon hybrids? (not trying to shoot the messenger here Steve.) But this may be just another time we might want to remember who was crying wolf not all that long ago. I believe AutoObserver said we would never get back to $2.50 gas again. Wait, did we feel it? Is the sky falling?
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Replying to: boaz47 (Nov 01, 2008 5:25 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 01, 2008 5:38 pm) it makes fuelt mileage/cost less of a budget factor.
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Replying to: boaz47 (Nov 01, 2008 5:25 pm) No, I don't think that is what people are worrying about. It is rather the ADVANCEMENT of hybrid-electric technologies, especially around batteries, that some fear might slow down substantially now that it doesn't seem as urgent any more because the gas price is lower. Me, I see no reason this summer's prices couldn't be repeated at any random future time, and I think the advancement of alternative technologies is just as urgent as ever. Plus, I'm kinda hoping that whether it's McCain or Obama, that they will take a reduction in foreign energy dependence as a matter of policy seriously in the next four years. |
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Nov 01, 2008 6:03 pm) I know I haven't been driving that long. I know that when I'm grown up I'll be saying that I remember when gas was $2.00 and that will probably blow my kids', when I have some, minds. Or they won't even know what gasoline was or was used for. I always get the when I stated driving gas was $0.50 or something like that. My parents are both 50ish.
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Replying to: tankbeans (Nov 01, 2008 6:31 pm) I got my license in early 1987, and I remember gas being as cheap as 85-90 cents per gallon. That seems so long ago now, but for a brief period in late 2001/early 2002, it was back down to around 95 cents-$1.00 per gallon. I guess that won't be happening again anytime soon, though. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 01, 2008 6:40 pm) I also remember buying Bugs in the 70's and the mid-20ish mpg was a factor. Some stuff, like lead acid car batteries, haven't seemed to change much at all. Cars sure run a lot better, but the average mpg doesn't seem to have made great strides. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 01, 2008 6:40 pm)
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 01, 2008 7:06 pm)
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