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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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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 12, 2008 12:34 pm) |
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Replying to: claires (Sep 09, 2008 8:44 pm) My most recent purchases and the fuel price at the time: 2007: '99 V6 ext cab Sonoma, gas was $3, gets 24 mpg combined. 2006: '98 V6 Mustang, gas was $2.70, gets 27 mpg combined 2004: '96 V6 Riviera, gas was $1.60, got 26.5 mpg combined, 31 on trip. 2001: '01 V8 4X4 4DR P/U, gas was $1.60, 15 city, 18.9 hwy. 1998: '98 Astro, gas was $.89, gets 18 mpg combined. With my driving spread across 5 vehicles, I won't be wearing any out, nor will swapping one out for a 30 mpg model save much off my $355 a month gas bill, so I am in pain but it could be worse. $5 gas could force me to make move. My first car I ever owned was a 3.8 L V6 that got 23 mpg back when it took 1/2 hr work to buy a gallon.
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| most stations are at about 3.659. borrowed the explorer from my daughter, so i put $20 in it. the station i drive by every day has been 3.859 for what seems like weeks now. | |
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Replying to: dave8697 (Sep 12, 2008 12:43 pm)  Do you just cycle through them that much that you don't have to put much gas in any one car? |
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Replying to: nippononly (Sep 12, 2008 6:54 am) " LOL! I guess Exxon and Valero shut down operations to ride out the storm, which impacted gas prices along the Texas coast nearby. I am not expecting prices to jump near me unless a significant portion of oil production is put out of commission by Ike. " Well actually it is. But temporarily of course. 95% of all gulf oil production is shutdown until Ike is well past. More than just Exxon & Valero, my guess would be almost all of the 26 refineries on the gulf coast will be shutdown until Ike is out of the way. Gas prices typically rise from fear of refinery damage during storms. Refarding oil futures prices, interesting how the specs can't fight the tide once a paradigm is broken.So high gas prices for a while and if no refinery damage then back down. Keep in mind the oil that refineries use was purchased several months ago so we could get the weird anomaly of oil down and gas up if there is damage. But overall the trend is down.
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Replying to: tankbeans (Sep 12, 2008 3:00 pm) I meant they will not need replacing for a long time as long as I can enjoy still driving them for a while. My monthly gas use at an avg of 22 mpg means I'm driving all of them less than 20k total miles per year. Spread across 5 vehicles, that is less than 4000 miles a year each. A year ago I was driving 51k miles per year. Glad that's over. As far as $355 a month in gas, that would be about 90 gallons. The 5 tanks hold 114 gallons but I only put a 1/2 tank in some so the gas stays fresher. |
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Replying to: duke23 (Sep 12, 2008 4:01 pm) |
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Replying to: dave8697 (Sep 12, 2008 5:35 pm) You buy 80-100 gallons of gas a month?  
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Replying to: dave8697 (Sep 12, 2008 5:35 pm) Once the nice weather's over, though, the old cars won't get driven as much. And I'll make my car-less roommate drive my '85 Silverado to work, and take back my Intrepid!
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