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projekteg 09-01-2005 01:05 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
3.40 for premium here, almost 5 dollars in georia. a lot of it has to do with hurrican katrina smashing all the oil rigs in the gulf you guys ;)

MakAttack 09-01-2005 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by kwikcoupe
We could trade them like a better way of life for a direct pipeline to the use of unlimited oil.
oil is not an "unlimited" resource ::)


Originally Posted by Darkelvis
As much as flex fuel cars are a great idea ethanol is not the way to go (and I live in North Dakota where A TON of it is made). Even though E-85 (85% ethanol/15% gas) is on average $.50 cheaper than regular gas it also decreases your gas mileage by roughly 30%, so you have to fill up more often and end up spending more, it decreases horsepower by roughly 10%, it wrecks spark plugs QUICK, so you are spending more on tune-ups per year, and it is recommended that if you are using E-85 you also change your oil every 1,000 miles whereas in my daily driver I go about 3500-4000 per oil change (owners manual says to go 3500).

Like I said flex fuel cars are a great idea, but car manufacturers and flex fuel manufacturers have quite a way to go before using flex fuel is compairable to using plain old gas. :)
I only brought up ethenol because it is some kind of a substitue that could work. There are others, and there "should" be more in the making...but there's not, and that's my point. We're too worried about gettnig every last drop that we can now, when, that's only leaving that much less for the future. I kow many of you will be thinking, ---- that I don't care I'll be gone in 50 yrs anyways...but your children won't, and neither will your grandchildren. This may sound really lame and you might feel like it's something you'd hear your grandpa tell you....but, concerning this whole oil fiasco, we really ought to be thinking of ways to pave the way of the future for our offspring. Oil is and will run out.....then what. We really should be living this situation in a proactive way, not a reactive way. :-\ *shrug*

Again...just my two cents.

J-SMITH69 09-01-2005 02:09 PM
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future energy = synthetic gasoline

when oil supplies are low enough, they will begin making it.

and with something that can be made w/o having to find it or jump through loops to get it. the price can be made cheap cheap cheap



i predict

scottsi 09-01-2005 02:59 PM
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my prediction is the middle east will run out of oil and we will have our saved oil reserves in alask, while everyone is paying tons for oil until they eventually run out and were the only ones that have it, then we become the dominant super power, and all the countries beg or band together and attack us for it.

Racintweek 09-01-2005 03:15 PM
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south america has way more oil fields than we do.


gas is 0.12/gallon in venezuela

solfly 09-01-2005 03:43 PM
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i bought extra gas today just out of spite

scottsi 09-01-2005 04:12 PM
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then we shall invade south america after the middle east, to bring back oil, and bitches with huge asses, and to kill all transvestites

RabbitShit 09-01-2005 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by turbohf

3.01 a gallon...~35bucks and the GTI is full.... and you know what? i did a nice ripper down the street, cuz i need to enjoy that ---- at 3bucks a gallon ;)
Too bad you still haven't paid me for the $6/gal ---- I put in there before.

alfaaay 09-01-2005 04:42 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
I'm with Mary/MakAttack on this one, not enough R&D is being done in the way of alternative fuel sources. As car people, myself included, none of us want to hear this because with most alternative options, it means a drop in performance. But hey, the sooner these things are developed, the sooner we can make fast cars with these fuel sources. Bleh, I wouldn't know which route is the best to go, I just think that it's time that we start looking at alternative sources and work on making a smooth transition to them. Unfortunately, as someone already said, it's the American way to not do anything about it until we're damn near fucked.

93turbo16 09-01-2005 04:44 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
Originally Posted by scottsi
then we shall invade south america after the middle east, to bring back oil, and bitches with huge asses, and to kill all transvestites

I can't help but laught at that...


Atleast boosted hondas still get 30 mpg

HondaTuner 09-01-2005 04:46 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
I just put $22 in my tank. You know what? Can't avoid it. We need gasoline and we will buy it. :-\

MakAttack 09-01-2005 05:42 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
we wouldn't need it if there were alternatives ::)



but as always, we wait, and wait....and wait some more until we "have" to figure out something. we will pay high and UNNESSECARY prices for petrolium, when we COULD be firguring out ways to keep prices lower, avoid issue and keep the american people happy. but who cares about doing any of that ::) we're gonna sit on our hands, and wait til we're "damn near fucked" as alfaaay put it, and maybe then we'll conjure up something to solve a major issue that could have been kept a "minor" issue were we to actually become a proactive country.

lol i appreciate my counrty and my freedom, but that doesn't mean i can't be disgusted by it either. :-\

J-SMITH69 09-01-2005 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by MakAttack
we wouldn't need it if there were alternatives ::)

but as always, we wait, and wait....and wait some more until we "have" to figure out something. we will pay high and UNNESSECARY prices for petrolium, when we COULD be firguring out ways to keep prices lower, avoid issue and keep the american people happy. but who cares about doing any of that ::) we're gonna sit on our hands, and wait til we're "damn near fucked" as alfaaay put it, and maybe then we'll conjure up something to solve a major issue that could have been kept a "minor" issue were we to actually become a proactive country.

lol i appreciate my counrty and my freedom, but that doesn't mean i can't be disgusted by it either. :-\
acually.

if you figure in the cost of switching everything to your other magic "power source" it'll cost 100000000000x more than contuing to use oil/gasoline.

supply/demand

when it becomes less costful and more profitable to use "other sources" we will. as of right now. its easier and less costly to use oil/gasoline

MakAttack 09-01-2005 05:48 PM
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i'm not saying that as of tomorrow the entire US has to start using the "new" gas. ::) but it SHOULD be put into affect instead of just sitting around, pissing people off over the steady rise of gas prices, the continued use of a limited resource etc. etc. *shrug*

just my opinion though. ;)

swartz 09-01-2005 06:24 PM
Re: Don't buy gas Sept. 1st
 
$3.65 for 93 here...upstate ny

MakAttack 09-01-2005 06:44 PM
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I saw $6.07 (for premium i think) on the news for New Orleans :-\


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