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The price of 87 octane regular was $3.47/gallon here yesterday.

Perhaps the only thing a non-political rodder can do is to start to look at lightweight vehicles if this political gridlock continues. The cultural switch to three-wheelers with HD engines will at least have a traditional base in the long history of motorcycles. Even then I checked out the big HDs at the agency at the end of my street and found they only get about 38 mpg. Well pardon my frustration, but with all the coal in North America and recently documented oil deposits in Colorado/ND and oil sands in western Canada, it looks to me that the problem is more environmental-political than geological!

My Congressman answers my e-mail messages so maybe maybe NSRA and even SEMA folks should keep the messages flowing asking for common sense development of U.S. oil and coal deposits; let your congressman know how you feel about caribou versus oil in ANWAR. Considering the increase in food prices relative to oil maybe there should be caribou-burgers, but then there would need to be some transportation costs to bring the burgers to population centers. That just shows how important oil is to food as well as heat and transportation.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don last month our gas bill was 400.00
I told my wife that we could get a brand new Toyota Yaris as a comuter car for about 250.00 a month car payment. We'd save at least 100.00 a month in gas economy as it gets around 35-36 stated gas milage on the hiway. A friend has one and says he gets around 40mpg. We actually test drove one, and it was comfortable and peppy for a little beater base model commuter.It also fits into those relined tight car spaces at work! I feel guilty that both cars we have only get between 20 and 22 mpg. We each commute to work. My wife goes 15 miles each way, me 25miles each way. I already car pool with a coworker, which helps. I'd love a cleaner burning hybrid, but theres that huge sticker shock and the problem with what environmental impack all those batteries have. The Yaris is just a cheap 11k new Toyota with great fuel economy. We figure if we bought one it would be like having a new car for about a hundred fifty a month plus insurance!