GET A SCOOTER.....$700 and it can delivered to your door! Got mine from here: http://www.scooterdepot.us/ Bought one after seeing everyone in Costa Rica riding everything with two wheels. It will pay for itself in 2 months. Cost me $68 to fill up my explorer...costs $5 to fill up my 150cc scooter...do the math. Got surf racks to haul my board to the beach. Ride it 5 miles down ocean blvd to work everyday when its not raining. Never had a dui and those that think a scooter is for losers can go ahead and keep paying $70 - $100 to fill their gas guzzlin vehicle up. I get 2 weeks of drivin for $5 bucks...PURA VIDA BROS!!!!!!!
actually gnar well, gnar, to begin with, you don't have to look far to see those who DO blame obama for high gas prices....it's a major tenet of newt's campaign. that aside, blaming bush is probably rooted along the lines that bush and his family have had close ties with the oil guys and other saudis, including the bin ladens (who are mostly into concrete of all things), and his administration WAS saying that his plan would lower prices, and when prices did go up, so did profits. that seemed fishy to lots of folks, fair or not. the free marketeers will argue that you can't regulate that, but when the current president makes the same accusation you do, they deny it has any effect...let's face it....there are powerful folks who have lots of money to keep influencing the few to take as much money as possible from the rest of us...the funny thing is all the rest of us are blaming each other.....effective plan. i think we agree on one thing.... right now we are screwed but hey, 6-10 feet tmrw.....
yamaha-ha-ha i still have my '86 xt600 enduro.....3 gals goes 120-160 miles, depending how much time i spend on one wheel. not as trendy as a scooter, not as deadly as a crotch rocket, not as midlife crisis as a harley, and when the hills slide across PCH on sunday i can still make my way over it....
It's not just gas, everyting you buy is hauled by gas & many things are byproducts of oil. I would love to have an altenative to gas, there just simply is not one right now. I currently have a Ford Escape, could get a Hybrid for 10,000 more or I could get a Volt for 40,000. If there was a viable alternative to this, the market would have found it by now. Consider, the bottled water you buy in a gas station is more expensive than gas. Trouble is, the current administration wants high prices- its their energy policy. So, get ready for everything to cost more, from a tomato to a trip to the beach. Their answer to this is going to be the governement subsidising it some way or another. Food stamps, why not gas stamps? Think I'm nuts- Thats what you get in the military to buy gas in a country like Germany where 1 liter cost about the same as 1 gallon. Watch what happens when this is debated in the upcoming election- there are clearly two sides to this issue. The current administration is going to tell you they have no control of this & will poke fun at anyone that suggests lower prices. Just think back- what were they telling you 6 years ago? Gas Stamps- its coming.
I had to cancel our annual overseas trip this year because airfare is through the roof. Times are tough, and I'll just save that money for future trips. There is a bus service to work, and I'll probably take that a couple of times a week. But what really hurts me right now is the after work session, its about a 20+ mile commute from the workplace to the beach, and add 15 miles to go back home. I'm torn
if gas prices reach $10 a gallon it will shut the country down. On another note, I refuse to drive a practical car...they get better gas milage, yeah, but they're tiny, if you get in a bad accident in one of those things your toast. I'll keep my Jeep and Ford trucks, thank you.
What about Iraq? Didn't we just do that> Not to change the subject, but has anybody heard the two new songs from the new Mars Volta album? Here's the link, check 'em out--->http://www.themarsvolta.com/news
yeah I agree. In that last 20 years where gas prices have tripled and by most accounts people's savings are down the auto companies have convinced us we need bigger, faster, heavier, more expensive vehicles. Its a pretty huge victory for marketing.
its just supply and demand. they can only charge what the market will bear. Figure out how many dollars a gallon of gas is worth to you, and don't exceed it. Don't lie to yourself....its probably worth more to you than you think at first. What are you willing to pay? Nobody's forcing you to pay high prices.
Some say that the gas price equals our durrent inflation however our incomes having risen properly to match it. Major problem there. Politics, market shares are dominating the problem jst so some guys can get elected and have their way and just aking advantage of the rest of us who deserve to be paid properly. The FIAT system is not working spemding money that doesnt even exist.
Let me throw in my 2 cents. That's all I have in the bank. First Alvin wages have not kept pace. I have gotten over 30 percent wage increases in the last fours years but I'm more broke now than this time last year. The oil companies have made record profits for the last 6 yrs. that's profit vs. revenue. Also banks and wall st folks have been doing pretty well for a while. You want prices down, stop driving when you don't need to. Send the message that you won't pay it and it will come down. And the answer is definitely not to invade/attack some oil producing country like Canada. Did you know that Canada and Mexico have more crude than the rest of the world combined.
"Attack or invade some oil producing country like Canada." What- where did that come from? When have we done that & please don't say Iraq. I did the Gulf War & have plently of buds that did the leatest one. When a country invades another country, they typically don't leave voluntarilly or give it back. They also do not have "Rules of Engagement" that limit what they are allowed to shoot at. If you believe that, then we should have cheapest oil on the planet.
Because I have a fairly large family, and we road trip a lot, and because I need room for all kinds of gear and tools and crap, I drive an SUV. Not my first choice, but practical in my situation. I used to drive a Ford Explorer that got just over 14mpg. For the last 6 years I've been driving a '06 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Now I get 27mpg, and it's got 103k miles on it. In about 6 months, I'm giving it to my son, paid off, to put another 100k on it, hopefully. My next ride? 2012 Highlander Hybrid, rated by Consumer Reports #1 in it's class, as was the '06. Guess what kind of mileage the 2012 Highlander Hybrid gets... 27mpg. WTF?! Don't you think it should be getting well over 30 by now??? I figured if you own a car for 4 years, you spend about 10k on gas over the life of the car... average. If you got a Chevy Volt, and only drove it as a commuter car... maybe to the liquor store and around town and whatnot... and put a few solar panels on your roof, you could basically save $2,000 a year in fuel.
It would be cheaper to buy a used Prius, then buy the conversion to flip flop the use of the electric motor so it becomes more like the Volt, running solely on electricity and only running the motor to charge in times of need. Plus you can add a plug and make it more like a plug-in. You could get all that done for less than 20k.
yeah the volt is priced in the 40 thousands. buying a wagon 4 banger or vw tdi turbo diesel or w/e is going to come in 15k less, in which the 2k saved a year in volt purchase wouldn't return on investment compared to these alternatives for something like seven years... i just bought a 2.0l 4 cylinder jetta wagon getting 29mpg highway and like 23 city for a combined savings of twice of what my jeep gets currenty, which is like 13 combined give or take... lifted 4.0l with 33" tires.
