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Automotive News & Views How does gas at $4 and higher impact you?
2183 messages, Last post on Nov 21, 2009 at 5:13 PM
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in several months, gas is up - the average price is up $0.12 from a month ago, still only $1.78 though. Here in the Bay Area our average price is $2 right on the button. Very manageable.  I think if gas gets back to $3 this coming summer, it will put the squeeze on many folks much more than $4.50 gas did last summer, and those dealers who are hanging onto a bunch of Priuses may live to cheer their decisions to load up on them now while things are slow. But I could well be wrong. That's the great thing about Edmunds, you can speculate and have 25 people remind you how wrong you were later on! Except perhaps for the May-July period last year, I would think most Prius purchases were calculated and intentional, and those buyers are not regretting their choices now even though the price of gas is at 5-year lows. Remember, only 1 of the 3 reasons people buy those cars is to save money - they also do it to (1) make an environmental statement, or (2) reduce imports of foreign oil because they feel it is a national security issue.
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Replying to: nippononly (Jan 12, 2009 7:12 am) |
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Is FedEx expecting fuel prices to go up? They have been charging a fuel surcharge for the past 2 years and continue to charge it even when gas was $1.50 per gallon. Could it be aviation fuel is still high? More than likely customers become accustomed to the surcharge in the delivery price.
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Replying to: guss (Jan 12, 2009 8:13 am) |
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Replying to: nippononly (Jan 12, 2009 7:12 am)
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Replying to: boaz47 (Jan 12, 2009 1:34 pm) If the economy keeps going the way it is going people won't be buying bread let alone cars. My BIL works for a manufacturing plant which was sold by GE to a private equity firm (same deal as Chrysler being bought by Cerbrus). They just told him that they are cutting his wages by 40% and making him do the work formerly done by 3 people. His union is fighting it but he doesn't have much hope for a happy ending. There is one person who won't be buying anything soon. I can't see gas going back up to $4 with the economy in the dumper. People were drained of all their reserves this summer. They simply don't have the money.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 12, 2009 4:12 pm) Agreed. Most of us will be sticking close to home this summer. I'd be surprised if gas prices in my neck of the woods (downstate NY) hit $2.50/gallon.
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Replying to: jimbres (Jan 12, 2009 4:24 pm) You know gas is till pretty cheap relative to other things, even at $3.00/gal. I mean if you're going on vacation, a decent rental at the beach is at least $1,500 for the week, meals for a day for a family of four are $125(?), and then throw in some ice cream and mini-golf. Gasoline really isn't much of a vacation budget. Plus for anybody who has a newer car, it seems pretty strange to have a vehicle worth $10K, $20K, or $30K sitting out in the driveway and then saying you can't afford the $50 to fill it up. You might as well buy an Armani suit and then sit in your house and watch wrestling in it. 
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Replying to: boaz47 (Jan 12, 2009 1:34 pm) |
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