$4 gas... question? |
Post Reply | Page <1 2345> |
Author | ||
Waterdog
Grand Poobah Joined: April-27-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2020 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Eric,
My Cummin's gets 26 mpg, 75 mph @ 2000 rpm. Last trip to Mi we went from Cleveland to Raliegh NC on 1 tank. If I push it 740 mi on a tank of fuel. |
||
Morfoot
Grand Poobah Joined: February-06-2004 Location: South Lanier Status: Offline Points: 5312 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I see the only problem with biofuel for Joe Q consumer is that fights will surely happen over who gets Mickey D's french fry oil when they are done with it.
We have a couple of guys here at work that run their trucks on bio-fuel and one even has a huge plastic tank in the back of his for collecting used oil. |
||
"Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman"
|
||
eric lavine
Grand Poobah Joined: August-13-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13413 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
you guys would never believe what i passed this morning, the gas station hah
dog, i think you are thinking of cornmash whiskey, next thing will be a grow room |
||
"the things you own will start to own you"
|
||
Waterdog
Grand Poobah Joined: April-27-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2020 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Gun driver,
Tell us more about making your own bio diesel. How much fuel can you make a week ? Did you build the distiller or buy a pre made one ? The cost of the distiller ? How much room do you need in the garage for the distiller ? Ect... |
||
eric lavine
Grand Poobah Joined: August-13-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13413 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I love the guys at the pump who, when done turn it off and wiggle the hose thinking their getting the gas left in the hose.
Brazil, uses sugar cane based ethanol???? moreso than crude... anyone notice food prices skyrocketing? Im with Trump on this one, protection will cost you. |
||
"the things you own will start to own you"
|
||
horkn
Platinum Member Joined: September-10-2007 Location: Cedarburg, Wi Status: Offline Points: 1511 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The US buys oil from 2 democratic countries...
Brazil and Canada. Nothing wrong with that. Relying on oil from countries that can't stop their own infighting ( middle east) is not a wise thing to do. |
||
78 martinique- refloored, reinforced, stringers re glassed, re engineered interior
GT40P heads Edelbrock Performer intake acme 4 blade http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/horkn/fish/nautique.jpg |
||
horkn
Platinum Member Joined: September-10-2007 Location: Cedarburg, Wi Status: Offline Points: 1511 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Drilling won't cut what the world will use by the time those drills produce anything. We do need to use our own resources, and it will probably come from the US armed forces developing biofuel as a viable alternative to unsafe shale gas production and other less viable and or responsible methods. As an odd bit of fate, the same day that "deepwater horizon" killed all those workers and sunk, the US navy flew their first biofuel powered fighter jet. Forcing the burdon of developing biofuel and alternative fuel on the US automakers is not the quick solution. The military getting the infrastructure to do biofuels will allow us to get a huge jump start on the real fix. |
||
78 martinique- refloored, reinforced, stringers re glassed, re engineered interior
GT40P heads Edelbrock Performer intake acme 4 blade http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/horkn/fish/nautique.jpg |
||
gun-driver
Grand Poobah Joined: July-18-2008 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Status: Offline Points: 4112 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The diesel is a $6,000 upgrade but along with the better towing and fuel economy you get a better resale value. I went to Kelly Blue Book and ran my truck with the diesel and then with the 5.4 Triton V8. The 5.4 was listed at 24,000 the diesel at 31,000. |
||
Keuka
Senior Member Joined: October-15-2009 Location: Keuka Lake, NY Status: Offline Points: 162 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Last summer I would pull up to the pump, pump gas into the suburban till it shut off at $75.00, then pull ahead and do the same in the Martinique. I have found that if you hit the "pay inside credit" button on the pump it doesn't shut off at $75 at my local station. Last fill up in the 'burb was $106.
David |
||
86 Martinique
|
||
harddock
Platinum Member Joined: June-04-2008 Location: Toontown, MA Status: Offline Points: 1763 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Luck you Eric. My little diesel (F250) gets 11-12 @>$4.00 per gal.
My new campaign is $100. I hand the attendent $100 and get as much as I can. I plan it wil be the same with the boat cause by summer it'll be $5 a gal and the tank is 32gal They'll see a hundred but will never see full. |
||
emccallum
Platinum Member Joined: August-08-2006 Location: Clarks Hill SC Status: Offline Points: 1084 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The US is supporting offshore drilling!!
From WSJ article: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling Too bad it's not in U.S. waters. You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. " Goto WSJ online for the whole article....if you can stomache it! We are sooo *************** stupid in this country. Put people to work, drill our own and be done. |
||
ky82sn
Senior Member Joined: December-05-2010 Location: Finchville,KY Status: Offline Points: 201 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The reason gas is going to continue to go way up in price is because our current leadership in DC has placed a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf.
This started at the beginning of the BP Oil Spill. No one can drill in the Gulf until this is lifted. I don't think they will lift the ban until we elect folks who are pro USA and elect people who have the citizens of the US and not other countries and religions in mind. We have a Congressmen in KY, Steve Guthrie who is running his campaign based on Energy and the US being completely dependent on our own Energy Resources. I think he truly understands what the cause of this current recession is and unless we all get our heads out of the sand and vote for folks like him you may be talking about $10. per gallon gas and you may be thinking about selling your CC boats. I hope it doesn't get to that. |
||
1982 ski nautique
1966 Al Tyll Skier |
||
8122pbrainard
Grand Poobah Joined: September-14-2006 Location: Three Lakes Wi. Status: Offline Points: 41040 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
On my way to the Hurricane flipping, I paid $4.04 the other day. I need to fuel up tomorrow and I'll see what it's gone up to. Damn, with the card $$$ limits at the pay at the pump, now it will defiantly be a two credit card fill up!
|
||
skicat2001
Platinum Member Joined: November-24-2008 Location: Ft. Worth TX Status: Offline Points: 1950 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
10 4 david What are the prices up north and east??? Down here in tx ranges from 3.59 and 3.79.. Depending where you go?? Shell try to stick to peps down here. They always higher than evryone else. Those prices off course was regular octane |
||
1985 CC 2001-SOLD
Lee Michael Johnson |
||
skicat2001
Platinum Member Joined: November-24-2008 Location: Ft. Worth TX Status: Offline Points: 1950 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
10 4 David |
||
1985 CC 2001-SOLD
Lee Michael Johnson |
||
skicat2001
Platinum Member Joined: November-24-2008 Location: Ft. Worth TX Status: Offline Points: 1950 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
We got to pay for Obama fancy trips...
What gas price range up there in the north and east??? Average down here is 3.59 and 3.79 depending where you go?? I hate Shell gas... Seem to be always higher than others This off course is 87 octance prices... |
||
1985 CC 2001-SOLD
Lee Michael Johnson |
||
OverMyHead
Grand Poobah Joined: March-14-2008 Location: MN Status: Offline Points: 4861 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Chalk that up to government regulation.there is a anti gas war law that sets the bottom price for gas (a certain margin above cost. This is designed to protect the little guy from a prolonged price war from a big player, but also eliminates fire sales on gas.
|
||
For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
1987 Ski Nautique |
||
PAPA
Senior Member Joined: October-06-2009 Location: Fremont, In Status: Offline Points: 202 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
||
PAPA
Senior Member Joined: October-06-2009 Location: Fremont, In Status: Offline Points: 202 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
||
emccallum
Platinum Member Joined: August-08-2006 Location: Clarks Hill SC Status: Offline Points: 1084 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I have a few friends with newer diesel pick-ups and they dont get double the mpg that I get in my F150. Granted, they can tow a house, and have a heavier truck. It seems the diesel motor is about 10K more than the gas version. If diesel is .30 more than gas that means you have to use over 33,000 gallons of diesel to pay the extra cost of the motor. Bottom line, if you need a diesel, buy one. But, the gvt has the game rigged to make you pay about the same cost per mile as the gas. No free lunch with the diesel.
Isnt it funny how diesel prices changed about the same time the more efficient diesels started hitting the market? |
||
gun-driver
Grand Poobah Joined: July-18-2008 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Status: Offline Points: 4112 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
When I got sent on my little vacation by Uncle Sam overseas in '04 diesel was cheaper than gas. I sold my F150 before I left, before I returned I ordered a new '06 diesel to be waiting my return. Diesel was now more than gas.
Ultra-low process had some to do with it but it's also the road tax we're paying, I get to pay the same road tax as a semi truck. The upside is the mileage increase like Eric stated. With my 150 pulling my trailer I got 8mpg with my diesel pulling the same trailer on the same trip I get 16mpg. |
||
eric lavine
Grand Poobah Joined: August-13-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13413 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
needless to say, that wasnt a bad raise
|
||
"the things you own will start to own you"
|
||
eric lavine
Grand Poobah Joined: August-13-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13413 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
here is my logic, because i drive a diesel, people alawys question me why i drive a diesel, and i will from here on out, they always say diesel is more expensive than gas so why would i want one. here is my reply, you are roughly getting 20 mpg on gas, i get on average 45 mpg, so to go 45 miles it costs me 4.00 bucks for you to go 45 miles it costs you about 8.50....is this very hard to understand?....now if your getting 12 mpg, figure that out lol
the only way i ever get a raise is to cut down on costs, so driving the diesel was my raise for the year |
||
"the things you own will start to own you"
|
||
eric lavine
Grand Poobah Joined: August-13-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13413 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
are we surprised?
|
||
"the things you own will start to own you"
|
||
harddock
Platinum Member Joined: June-04-2008 Location: Toontown, MA Status: Offline Points: 1763 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Is your diesel the low sulphur kind because youres is considerably less than gas and ours is the opposite? What can you expect, they have us paying a buck for a pint of water. |
||
Kristof
Grand Poobah Joined: October-08-2007 Location: Bree, Belgium Status: Offline Points: 3391 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Current fuel prices in Belgium...
Diesel: 1,463 euro/liter equals 8,039 $/gal Gas: 1,679 euro/liter equals 9,226 $/gal LPG: 0,692 euro/liter equals 3,803 $/gal And they're gonna keep going up in the following weeks... Just to put things back into perspective for you guys... |
||
- Gun control means: using BOTH hands!
- Money doesn't make one happy, but when it rains cats and dogs, it's still better to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle... |
||
OverMyHead
Grand Poobah Joined: March-14-2008 Location: MN Status: Offline Points: 4861 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
In 1976 gas cost .60 per gallon today it is about $4.00 an increase of 666%. In 1976 bread cost .30, today average is 2.28, an increase of 933% yet I never hear complaints about big bread profits. I have heard oil company profits have been remakably consisten at a return of 7% on the dollar invested for years. That is a return of 1.07 for every dollar spent. In 2008 when then candidate hillory clinton was complaining about record profits for oil companys racking in that big 7 cents on the dollar, verison wireless made 100% profit, 2 dollars returned for every one spent, but the media and politicians make the oil companies out as the greedy bad guys, and our ignorant electorate buys the whole scam. Demand for gas rises nearly every year, giving oil companys record sales nearly every year. Taking the same 7 cents on the dollar for each gallon of gas gives them record profits nearly every year. It is all about volume. At 4$ per gallon oil companys make about a 28 cent per gallon profit, meanwhile in Minnesota gas taxes are 45.6 cents per gallon. The oil companies buy or drill for the oil, transport it or build pipe lines, refine it, store it, transport it to the gas stations and sell it for .28 cents per gallon profit. What is the government doing for its 45.6 cent share? Building light rail? Have you ever tried to hook up your correct craft to a light rail train? As far as the differnce between 2008 and now, oil is sold in us dollars and that has not changed (yet),but it is not just the purchase of raw crude, everything the oil company has to do (listed above) has to be paid in US dollars. With our country monitising its debt, our currencies value is dropping on the world market, and we are seeing real inflation in transportation cost here in the U.S.. also in Minnesota gas taxes have gone up 5.1 cents per gallon since 2008. It all adds up, and goes way beyond oil company profits.
|
||
For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats.
1987 Ski Nautique |
||
MartyMabe
Grand Poobah Joined: February-21-2006 Location: High Point,NC Status: Offline Points: 3974 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
GaryS-- I've got another Buick V-6 hanging on the Engine Stand right now! You want to build it up nice? As for the driving the Company truck--The 99 Toyota Tacoma gets 22 mpg ,in the city- I get 330 miles a tankful, and I drive no less than 200 miles a day!! Fill up every other day!
And the guy next door at Sunshine Racing- he has his VW Jetta set up for Veggie Oil. In the mornings, when we have the doors open, you can smell him pulling in. We might smell Hush Puppies one day and Fish the next! |
||
davidg
Grand Poobah Joined: January-07-2008 Location: NW Chicagoland Status: Offline Points: 2239 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Drill Baby....Drill!!!!
We need to use our own resources instead of relying on OPEC! I remember in '08 gas in downtown Chicago was $4.60/gal. Here in the suburbs, it was ~$1.00/gal less. Now, most stations around here are at $4.09 even in the milktoast burbs. But, whats the alternative? A Chevy Volt?? |
||
sweet77
Gold Member Joined: January-06-2011 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 666 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
$104.00 in my 3500 Chevrolet service truck today im getting 11.4 miles to the gallon. I drive roughly 125 mi a day yeah it sucks. ive just decided i took up the wrong business. Should have just been born rich
|
||
Post Reply | Page <1 2345> |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |