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....well since my '32 blew up 3 weeks ago I'm saving money! My rental car at $535 a month plus gas in it is CHEAPER than putting gas in my '32!!! Almost everytime I leave the house I put $50 bucks worth of gas in the '32..... zzz

Just saw premium tonight $ 3.99.9 and Diesel $ 4.53.9.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Just saw premium tonight $ 3.99.9 and Diesel $ 4.53.9.

Don

Heck, I paid $4.09 last week for premium.....It's $4.17 this morning

over the weekend Chicago and New York areas had highest fuel prices---gas well over $4 and climbing daily Saw diesel at $4.999

We're moving our shop back home because of time enroute and fuel for 22 mile drive 6 days per week---has been about $100 fuel and 18 man hours ( 2 people) weekly plus utilities and taxes for 10000 ft shop.

Originally Posted by stovens

Don
Both my wife and myself have been commuting with coworkers this last year. We are considering buying a Toyota Yaris. The stated gas milage for freeway is 35-36 (depending on 2 door or fourdoor models, cars are 11-13k new, (we get Topyotas at cost) so about 258 a month. It will drop our gas bill about 125-200 a month, so it makes sense in the long run, plus they are nice simple little commuter cars!

Get the Yaris. My dad just bought one (4 door, manual trans). He is getting over 40 mpg. It is actually pretty peppy for an economy car.

I been using my gas money to buy 45 rounds and shotgun shells,got a nice axe a water purifier and night vision ...OOhh and a real nice scope for the 30-30,some good water proof maps,.......you never know whats going to happen when they publicly announce the dollar is worth less than 50 cents,people get crazy...

I sure would have liked to get the steel roll downs installed over the windows before the end of the month and that third coat of stucco on the walls ....O well.
And just soo there is no outlet at all for them,beer went over 10 dollars a 6 pack here.....soo no sitting home drinking beer,while you can not afford to drive.
Guy went off last night in the store too ,he was like WTH is this ,gas is over xx.xx and 6 pack is 10 dollars ,needless to say he was about to snap on the poor cashier.....soo I am getting ready for the snappers to start falling down.
Soo silly only police and ex military can get bullet proof jacketts,glad I have friends!!!!!

Ceh383 wrote:

Heck, I paid $4.09 last week for premium.....It's $4.17 this morning

Never really envied you guys from the West coast, and do even less these days. Seems like everytime gas/oil goes up, it goes up in CA first. Just filled my 34 up Monday at $3.96 premium. Yesterday same gas was $4.05 for prem (reg.$3.79) Now crude is up to $130, so I guess regular gas will be up to $4.00 by the end of the week.

I can retire anytime but wife still needs to go to work (80 miles/day) so I might as well go too (we work in the same complex) unitl she is ready to retire. Right now it's costing about $70/week in gas. Good thing is that the jobs pay well, otherwise it would be a whole lot tougher, with tough decisions to make.

Ford2custom wrote:

Unless your walking to church you would be saving a little more fuel, I think the grace you would lose would out weigh the fuel savings imo.

Not walking to church. Church is 20 miles away. Might have to find new religion. Got a Luthern church about a half mile away, maybe I'll convert. Always good to stay in His good graces. Think I will give up the beer and split the pizza with the cats.

It really affects our business, the freight company's give us a sur charge, you can't get freight quotes at 30 day's any longer. It's day by day. Pretty soon the freight will cost more than our product
Ken

I think I'm gonna find a good ol' Studebaker round fender truck and put a modern EFI V-8 with AOD in it along with appropriate creature comforts. Build it as a driver, then find a comfortable little Civic or other such economy car to drive daily. That gives me a good cool truck when I need one, but one I can park when I don't. I only drive about 15 miles a day during the week, but am using my '01 Silverado to do it. Can't see replacing it with a new little car. Or maybe I'll just keep driving the Chevy. It's paid for and gets 16 mpg around town.

Pat

There was just a story on the local news about a computer repair business that has converted all of it's diesel trucks to run on used cooking oil. They made a deal with some restaurant chain to swap computer repairs of all the old cooking oil the restaurant no longer needs.

I see lots of posts everywhere from people who are starting to think of converting cars to propane and other alternative fuels. I asked the guy at UPS yesterday how this was affecting their costs, and he said they have increased prices by 30 percent and are going to go even higher.

Glad I bought my little moped.

Don

been eating more steak-um sandwiches or hotdogs for dinner. And that is just for the gas to keep the lawn cut. Get fined here in town if grass over 3".

Don, when di you get up here and take a picture of me on my way to work???

Chris

Actually that picture reminds me of a guy I used to work with years ago. He had a little 100cc Honda he rode about 20 miles to work most days. He was about that size, too. I had a full dressed Gold Wing that I used follow him with, and he always told me to not follow too closely because people would see his bike, then mine and laugh at his. Said it was embarassing.

I might have to put $99 down on one of those new Smartfortwo mini cars. Good safety rating, same mpg as a Gold Wing (40 mpg), better roll cage protection, and half the price @ $11,600 fully loaded. Either that or find me a nice little used Honda Insight (2 seater 68 mpg hwy).

Of courrse, what I really need to do is win the lottery, retire, move to Ft. Myers, and borrow Don's "hog" when I need to pick things up from the store.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

There was just a story on the local news about a computer repair business that has converted all of it's diesel trucks to run on used cooking oil. They made a deal with some restaurant chain to swap computer repairs of all the old cooking oil the restaurant no longer needs.

I see lots of posts everywhere from people who are starting to think of converting cars to propane and other alternative fuels. I asked the guy at UPS yesterday how this was affecting their costs, and he said they have increased prices by 30 percent and are going to go even higher.

Glad I bought my little moped.

Don

Don,
I hate to have to tell you this but be careful, I’m no math kid but the size of the moped vs.the rider could mean the moped could get lost if you hit a bump!! Be careful.

Richard