Fill 'er up... quickly!

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Reply #15 – August 31, 2005, 10:35:09 AM

Sam's Club Murry Wed
5:37 AM
66 TH State St SLC ( With Membership)
2.70/gal

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Reply #16 – August 31, 2005, 09:23:20 PM

OUCH !! $3.39 for the low grade this afternoon (jumped from $2.65 this morning) and said to be going up again tonight. I feel like my pants were yanked around my ankles this afternoon and someone slapped me on hte back of the head because I was too stupid to stop this morning.

I put my first shot of Acetone in the tank also...my luck just about guarantees my motor will blow by Thursday afternoon, and I'll have a full tank I can't use.

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Reply #17 – August 31, 2005, 10:16:52 PM

Noon Yesterday $2.56
Noon today $3.19
And still climbing.

Whach the price of your fruits, vegies, and other things climb right along with it.

Time to see what E85 does to a tired out 200,000+ mi SO 5.0.
Keep those fingers crossed.

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Reply #18 – August 31, 2005, 10:37:22 PM

Your going to run E85 in your car? Hmm. Should run great for like a year then your pump, fuel lines and possibly the injectors will need replaced.

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Reply #19 – August 31, 2005, 10:51:02 PM

Actone will sweal any rubber in comes in contact with. Even when dilouted to less than one tenth of a percent. Never put that in your fuel tank. Many tests have been tryed, especially in the long haul trucking industry for fuel savings, in both gas and diesel engines.

The results were marginal savings for gasoline engines, but not nearly enought to warrant the damage you are doing.

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Reply #20 – August 31, 2005, 11:11:58 PM

who else thinks that we will have another end to what ever era this was. for cars. and anything performance from the factory.. i guess in a way they are really trying to get old cars like ours off the road. and get these hybrds on the road/ you little civics and such. im not giving in.

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Reply #21 – August 31, 2005, 11:27:15 PM

is this the beginning of madmax or what?i agree with you CougarCoupe88,just trying to get rid of our "clunkers".all i can tellem is to blow it out there tailpipe!!!they will have to pry the wheel and shift out of my cold dead fingers."VIVA LE FOX"

excuse me,got carried away!!!

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Reply #22 – August 31, 2005, 11:44:13 PM

I dunno about our old "clunkers" - after reading Car and Driver magazine tonight I see that a Chevy Impala with the V8 gets 18 city/29 highway. That's pretty ed close to my 17 year old V8 Thunderbird...

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Reply #23 – September 01, 2005, 02:26:08 AM

The Cougar has been parked in the driveway 90% of the time.
I've been driving the family truck - a '94 Mazda with the 2.3l 4-cyl and 5-speed. It's a dog, but it's not as thirsty as that 4.6 is.

Mark my words. This is going to get far worse before it gets any better.

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Reply #24 – September 01, 2005, 06:15:42 AM

Just peaked at 3 bucks even today. Took me 10 bucks to fill up the bike. I remember when that would get me half a tank in the ol' tbird. If these oil people don't watch it, alternative fuels will kick thier asses. The only reason they haven't so far is because the cost was too prohibitive, but if gas will cost just as much, I'd say goodbye to mid east oil in a heartbeat. And why isn't the government doing SOMETHING to ease the stress on the system. Fuel costs will raise the cost of everything else. Surely they could cut the tax down a bit. It seems our president is on vacation more than in the office Thanks a ton bush supporters! It may sound like hindsight, but would kerry have spent the better part of a term on vacation? At least kerry got his money from ketchup, not oil. Hmm... rich texan with oil money is our leader... Enough ranting for me, i'm going to have an aneurism if my blood pressure gets any higher, grr....

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Reply #25 – September 01, 2005, 09:52:29 AM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken

I dunno about our old "clunkers" - after reading Car and Driver magazine tonight I see that a Chevy Impala with the V8 gets 18 city/29 highway. That's pretty ed close to my 17 year old V8 Thunderbird...

The difference is in the 303hp/323lbft and an extra 23ci.

That's a long haul from 150hp. It sure sounds like advancement to me.

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Reply #26 – September 01, 2005, 11:12:38 AM

But Oldraven, I'm sure if we upgraded our cars to 303 horses or more we could still get mileage very close to that if done right. Of course our actual observed economy would be much lower because let's face it - if we spend money to upgrade our engines to 303 horses we're gonna want to use those horses.

Which, of course, is all moot. The point I'm making is that nobody is trying to force us out of our cars that get almost 30MPG on the highway. Our 30MPG compares well to a lot of contemporary cars, whether they double our horsepower or not. The real problems are the ones that drive SUV's and pickup trucks that get 12 MPG on the highway. The problem is that aside from econopoopsters cars do not get any better mileage than they did 15-25 years ago, and in fact many get worse. Yes, an '05 V6 Camry makes about 80 more horses than an '89 V6 Camry, but the fuel mileage is likely not much different, and when gas approaches $4/gallon, people start to be interested in things like MPG's more than horsepower. Even my old 300,000 mile Dakota, even though it's only got 125 horses (100 of which have likely dies long ago), gets much better mileage than my father's recently purchased '05 Dakota. And econoshiznitboxes could get 100MPG, but it wouldn't matter because people don't want econoshiznitboxes. Yet. Give it a year at current (or likely higher) prices, then woe betide anyone trying to sell a used Suburban...

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Reply #27 – September 01, 2005, 11:44:16 AM

Quote from: Haystack

I put 200 miles on every friday AND saturday. Thats like 6 tanks in a pay check

Sounds about the same as me. Putting 600 miles on per week and there's no way around it. None of this at cruising speeds, all city and/or stop and go. 20mpg every time. ~$350 for the last few months. Guess I can expect half a grand soon enough

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Reply #28 – September 01, 2005, 09:20:09 PM

This whole hybrid car thing is not happening as soon as it could. Think about it, even though the government is not minding this raise in gas prices (pen 15s) if we just ran out of gas and the last million or so barrels cost 300 bucks a pop, the world would shut down. Bammm. Plains would fall out of the sky, the military would be nocked back 100 years and yada yada yada. You know well they don't want that to happen.

We have the technology to make hydrogen cars, hybrids, biodeisel (my favorite) and efficiant electric cars. If the government told the car companies they needed this to happen and quickly it would already be done. I remember hearing that the US had enough oil in reserve that they don't use, to run the country for like 75 years? Can someone elaborate. They are no doubt trying to slow the use of oil but if we had to come up with another fuel it could already be done.

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Reply #29 – September 01, 2005, 10:01:36 PM

I just got home from taking out my cougar for the last time. I'm pulling it off the insurance policy since I can longer afford the 3.89 /gallon for me to run her.

It's only going higher. My 6 dollar an hour job just can't afford it anymore. :(

I'm so upset. I'm almost at the feeling where I'm like helplessly lost on what to think anymore.