Whoa!! I never thought gas would come to this!!

[CDALEMX301]

So I was driving down the road today and see a lady in the middle of the road. I am like hmmmm whats this nutbag doing. I look in my rear view and this is what I see....
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/488798632_0e6931e426_b.jpg

[rcer450r]

haha, that us great and is about the truth...

[Mean250r]

Gas is rediculous! I pay like 80 bucks a week just for gas in my car! **** sucks

[sideways]

most accurate prices ive seen so far

[Scott-300ex]

LMAO

Thats so funny.


:D

mean 250r thats 80 a week X 52 weeks in a year thats.....are you ready?? 4160 a year (if you do acctually spend 80 a week) now lets say you get an average of 25 mpg

4160 divided by 3 (dollars a gallon) thats 1386 then times that by 25= 34666 ....not to call you out but i doubt you drive 34 thousand miles a year. The average person puts about 12 thousand a year on their car or truck, about a thousand a month, 250 a week...


not calling you a lier but you prolly are spending around 40-55 a week on gas, even at 50 a week thats 200 a month and still about 2500 a year....but hey you might drive 3 times more then the average person

[parkers30]

remember you said 'the average person'

my Mom put 34k on her Prius in 1 year, I put 25k on my truck and my dad has put nearly 50k on his. I typically put $80+ each week in my truck

[quadwanter]

thats also assuming he gets 25mpg...which isnt the case for a lot of cars

[underpowered]

i easily put $80 a week in my truck, at 15MPG, and that is just ONE fill-up. last week i spend almost 120 in gas. i put about 15k on my truck a year.

i put anywhere from 12-16 thousand miles a year on my car, it gets about 25-28 mpg on highway

[Predator Slim]

I drive about 39,000 miles a year, this is to and from work only. (75 miles each way) Didn't take long for me to get a compact car. But even at 30 mpg, I spend about $3,900 a year, just to get to work. Almost 10% of my income.:mad:

[400exrider707]

Originally posted by Honda86
mean 250r thats 80 a week X 52 weeks in a year thats.....are you ready?? 4160 a year (if you do acctually spend 80 a week) now lets say you get an average of 25 mpg

4160 divided by 3 (dollars a gallon) thats 1386 then times that by 25= 34666 ....not to call you out but i doubt you drive 34 thousand miles a year. The average person puts about 12 thousand a year on their car or truck, about a thousand a month, 250 a week...


not calling you a lier but you prolly are spending around 40-55 a week on gas, even at 50 a week thats 200 a month and still about 2500 a year....but hey you might drive 3 times more then the average person

A lot of people on here drive trucks, and most of them dont get no 25mpg. My ranger is good for 19mpg highway if I drive slow, towing its down to 13-15mpg.

Im buying a car for the summer.

My buddy fills up his truck twice a week just for work at about $80 a fill up, it is cheaper for him to buy a bike and make monthly payments on it than it is to pay for gas in his truck.

[ATC_KING]

gas is $2.55-$2.85 here in south dakota

[Predator Slim]

Originally posted by ATC_KING
gas is $2.55-$2.85 here in south dakota

Did it just drop? Or did you not see $3.00?

America as a whole is downsizing. My car gets a lil under 25 mpg in city and about 28 mpg on highway. I couldnt imagine owning a big truck that gets abou 12 mpg. My next car will be above 30 mpg. Or else i wont sell my car.

[sideways]

im kinda lucky my pickup gets 18-20. i WAS thinking of getting a gmc 3/4 ton, but have since changed my mind due to the 5 mpg difference

[Scott-300ex]

Originally posted by Honda86
mean 250r thats 80 a week X 52 weeks in a year thats.....are you ready?? 4160 a year (if you do acctually spend 80 a week) now lets say you get an average of 25 mpg

4160 divided by 3 (dollars a gallon) thats 1386 then times that by 25= 34666 ....not to call you out but i doubt you drive 34 thousand miles a year. The average person puts about 12 thousand a year on their car or truck, about a thousand a month, 250 a week...


not calling you a lier but you prolly are spending around 40-55 a week on gas, even at 50 a week thats 200 a month and still about 2500 a year....but hey you might drive 3 times more then the average person

Thank you Mr. Science.



:D

[ATV Chic]

Originally posted by Scott-300ex
Thank you Mr. Science.



:D


haha x2 :D :p

[the 97]

Diesel is cheaper the gas now!!!!….and the funny thing is that I hear that diesel is a waste product of making gas. But the price is still going up….also thought that prices would go down cause of summer time and not having to heat you house and stuff. Getting between 16-18 with a ¾ton duramax….had someone tell me they got 22 with the same truck but I don’t know about that…..

[Scro]

Originally posted by Honda86
mean 250r thats 80 a week X 52 weeks in a year thats.....are you ready?? 4160 a year (if you do acctually spend 80 a week) now lets say you get an average of 25 mpg

4160 divided by 3 (dollars a gallon) thats 1386 then times that by 25= 34666 ....not to call you out but i doubt you drive 34 thousand miles a year. The average person puts about 12 thousand a year on their car or truck, about a thousand a month, 250 a week...


not calling you a lier but you prolly are spending around 40-55 a week on gas, even at 50 a week thats 200 a month and still about 2500 a year....but hey you might drive 3 times more then the average person

I just got a new job about an hour away. I spent $100 in gas the first week. This was driving a F-150 5.4 liter.

Originally posted by the 97
Diesel is cheaper the gas now!!!!….and the funny thing is that I hear that diesel is a waste product of making gas. But the price is still going up….also thought that prices would go down cause of summer time and not having to heat you house and stuff. Getting between 16-18 with a ¾ton duramax….had someone tell me they got 22 with the same truck but I don’t know about that…..

no actually the prices go up because the BIG OIL companies know we're gonna use it traveling....so we all might as well bend over now....because there is nothing we can do about it, and they know it...our governent ain't stepping in to help...heck no these companies contribute to much to re-election funds....they are making record profits, and say it's because of the war in iraq or some hurricane in the gulf of mexico... B.S. all of it!! it's called collusion, and they're milking it for all it's worth!!

[the 97]

very true.....................

[chazekxt]

3.29 here

[coolex]

just sold my jeep that was somehow getting 11mpg, and am getting a 5.7L camaro:devil: man u gotta love the gas guzzlers

[JJs450r]

my fiance mom is manager at a bp here in town and she said supposeldy there is one day coming up where everyone isnt supposed to put gas in the vechile and over night gas prices will go down any one else heard this?

[coolex]

Originally posted by JJs450r
my fiance mom is manager at a bp here in town and she said supposeldy there is one day coming up where everyone isnt supposed to put gas in the vechile and over night gas prices will go down any one else heard this?



yea they try to do that every month and it never works:ermm:

[coolex]

also if every didnt get gas one day that would meen so many people would need gas the next day it wouldnt be worth it, also face it everybody needs gas except electic cars, and what i know about supply and demand is that they could juack the price to 8.00 a galoon and you would still buy it

[YTZ250#1]

do the math. 20oz bottle of water $1.25
there are 6.4 bottles in a gallon.= $8
1 gallon of gas $3.?? . why are you not *****ing about the price of water?:confused:

[coolex]

Originally posted by YTZ250#1
do the math. 20oz bottle of water $1.25
there are 6.4 bottles in a gallon.= $8
1 gallon of gas $3.?? . why are you not *****ing about the price of water?:confused:



were im from we have this thing called sink, it includes a faucet and 2 handles one for hot one for cold, u turn the cold one for nice fresh cold unlimited free water,

so i dnt spend any money on water, just gas

[JOEX]

Originally posted by coolex
were im from we have this thing called sink, it includes a faucet and 2 handles one for hot one for cold, u turn the cold one for nice fresh cold unlimited free water,

so i dnt spend any money on water, just gas
Tap water isn't free unless you're hand cranking it from a well:p

[coolex]

its a well lol and i dnt think we pay for anything except for the pump ( wich was free)

[coolex]

o yea i guees it uses electricity ( im guessing thats what ur talkign about), my nieghbor has a hand crank well, its so antique i actually prefer using it

[JOEX]

Originally posted by coolex
o yea i guees it uses electricity ( im guessing thats what ur talkign about), my nieghbor has a hand crank well, its so antique i actually prefer using it
Yea, that's what I was getting at;)

I bet cranking the pump in February isn't much fun:p

[coolex]

lol i prefer using it soemtimes, like the past few days

[YTZ250#1]

ya means ya all gots indoor plumbing? wow! us rednecks hear in NY heard thats only in the big city.

ya see thats my point. it's free from the well ,but $1.25 from the vending machine & that adds to $8 a gallon.yet every 1 has to complain about the price of gas & never the price of water.who is the bigger crook?
the oil company or the spring water company.?at least the oil company pays for the product they need to refine to make gas. the water company has to pay for the bottles.they just steal the water from some Indian reservation land up in the mountains. oh ya. most people that live in a populated areas like towns & cities (you might of only heard the elders in your clan speak of such places) have a water & sewer bill , not a free well.

[coolex]

ive herd of idiots actually paying for town water before , ( most my family does lol), town water also tastes like chit,

so ur complaining about people complaining about gas prices, were in turn they should really be complaining about water

[YTZ250#1]

No. don't do any good to complain. nobody listens anyway. so don't complain at all. or complain about the real problem in this country.not just the gas prices.:)

[MX MaNiAc 06]

Im pretty sure ur paying for the bottle, cap n paper on the side more than the water inside. But who cares about water anyway..

GAS PRICES SUCK!!!

[Scott-300ex]

Originally posted by JOEX
Yea, that's what I was getting at;)

I bet cranking the pump in February isn't much fun:p

Uh yeh especially since the water would be FROZEN in the lines. LoL. Melt the snow for the winter for water, only way.

[Rastus]

Originally posted by dlerch
no actually the prices go up because the BIG OIL companies know we're gonna use it traveling....so we all might as well bend over now....because there is nothing we can do about it, and they know it...our governent ain't stepping in to help...heck no these companies contribute to much to re-election funds....they are making record profits, and say it's because of the war in iraq or some hurricane in the gulf of mexico... B.S. all of it!! it's called collusion, and they're milking it for all it's worth!!


What alot of people don't understand is that oil is one of the main elements in our economy, and without it we WOULD collapse as a nation/society. We use it for gas/kerosene/petrochemicals(plastics, etc.) and the list goes on and on. All the complaining and moaning around won't help, the only thing that will help is to reduce consumption and start recycling more. End of story. You aren't "sticking it to the man" by not buying gas one day.


dlerch, for someone that complains about wanting more freedom, you're sending mixed messages. You're yelling "Give us our freedom back Gov't!" and then you head into a gas thread and start saying things like "Why won't the Gov't help us?! They won't step in and do something!" :rolleyes:

Gas caps and interventions are a completely socialist idea. Which are you? Capitalist or socialist?


Besides, the gov't makes far and away more money off of gas sales than the companies do. Why would they mess up their gravy train?

Originally posted by Rastus

dlerch, for someone that complains about wanting more freedom, you're sending mixed messages. You're yelling "Give us our freedom back Gov't!" and then you head into a gas thread and start saying things like "Why won't the Gov't help us?! They won't step in and do something!" :rolleyes:

Gas caps and interventions are a completely socialist idea. Which are you? Capitalist or socialist?


swoooosh....here that? that was my point going over your head!!! my point is the government is there to protect us last time i checked? not just the "rich" part of us....when ever they turn a national park into oil fields, who do you think profits LARGELY from that? they stepped in when mocrosoft had a monopoly. so why not step in since the oil companies are colluding to rip us off? they've talked about a "windfall" tax on big oil...well all that will do is tax us again!! if the government has the power to enforce a windfall tax....then i would think they have the power to control how much BIG OIL slams us for gas!!

and as a business owner i am a capitalist.....but i don't own a restaurant that people HAVE to eat at everyday....and if they did, i would be happy with that amount of business/profit. i wouldn't jack up the prices to make an even more obnoxious amount of profit(10 billion for exxon alone last year)...but if i did, i assure i would be man enough to admit it was because of pure GREED!! not because of a hurricane in someplace, or a civil war somewhere else etc etc etc.....i hope i put in a way you could understand it....;)....anyone else confused?? :devil:

[md1985250r]

Originally posted by Honda86
mean 250r thats 80 a week X 52 weeks in a year thats.....are you ready?? 4160 a year (if you do acctually spend 80 a week) now lets say you get an average of 25 mpg

4160 divided by 3 (dollars a gallon) thats 1386 then times that by 25= 34666 ....not to call you out but i doubt you drive 34 thousand miles a year. The average person puts about 12 thousand a year on their car or truck, about a thousand a month, 250 a week...


not calling you a lier but you prolly are spending around 40-55 a week on gas, even at 50 a week thats 200 a month and still about 2500 a year....but hey you might drive 3 times more then the average person

I have a 2005 F-150 , that was tagged in May , so its 2 years old right now ....are you with me so far? It has 80,790 miles on it and it takes about $90 every three days!! Lucky for me I dont have to pay the bill!!:D :D

i dont drive anywhere unless i HAVE to. 20 bucks would last me about 5 days.

[Sjorge450R]

$20 gets me about 100miles. Thats all need to be driving....lol. I drive that in about a week and half. (still in school)

[Rastus]

Originally posted by dlerch
swoooosh....here that? that was my point going over your head!!! my point is the government is there to protect us last time i checked? not just the "rich" part of us....when ever they turn a national park into oil fields, who do you think profits LARGELY from that? they stepped in when mocrosoft had a monopoly. so why not step in since the oil companies are colluding to rip us off? they've talked about a "windfall" tax on big oil...well all that will do is tax us again!! if the government has the power to enforce a windfall tax....then i would think they have the power to control how much BIG OIL slams us for gas!!

and as a business owner i am a capitalist.....but i don't own a restaurant that people HAVE to eat at everyday....and if they did, i would be happy with that amount of business/profit. i wouldn't jack up the prices to make an even more obnoxious amount of profit(10 billion for exxon alone last year)...but if i did, i assure i would be man enough to admit it was because of pure GREED!! not because of a hurricane in someplace, or a civil war somewhere else etc etc etc.....i hope i put in a way you could understand it....;)....anyone else confused?? :devil:

I'm sorry to tell you this, but the point of Government isn't there to protect us and play nanny all the time. How are the "rich" protected by this either? Do you know anyone personally that is getting rich off of this? I sure don't.
The richer people pay most of the taxes, and they still pay the same amount for gas that you and I do. Adding more taxes on each gallon of gas won't help either, the Gov't already makes around 45 cents or so on each gallon, along with 6 cents on each dollar where I live. That is pure profit for them, they don't have any of the costs of exploring/refining/shipping,etc. that the companies do. Why would I want to give any more of my money to Uncle Sam? He already gets enough to give to criminal immigrants. How many national parks do you see being carved up?

Just because you own a restaurant doesn't mean you're pro-capitalist. A socialist economy allows for private business ownership, as long as it's not a major industry(i.e. electric generation, water services, etc.). It's actually kinda funny that you made fun of my intellectual level when the second word of your opening statement is misspelled. ;)

They got involved with Microsoft simply because it was ONE SINGLE COMPANY that controlled it, not many companies controlled by share/stockholders. If the whole software market wanted to charge $500 for a operating system that would normally cost $100 before, what choice do we have in how they set their prices? Who are we to try to tell a company how much to charge for THEIR product?


I agree with you though, I don't like the price of gas. It would be nice if we all could fill up for free, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. :)

Originally posted by Rastus
I'm sorry to tell you this, but the point of Government isn't there to protect us and play nanny all the time. How are the "rich" protected by this either? Do you know anyone personally that is getting rich off of this? I sure don't.
The richer people pay most of the taxes, and they still pay the same amount for gas that you and I do. Adding more taxes on each gallon of gas won't help either, the Gov't already makes around 45 cents or so on each gallon, along with 6 cents on each dollar where I live. That is pure profit for them, they don't have any of the costs of exploring/refining/shipping,etc. that the companies do. Why would I want to give any more of my money to Uncle Sam? He already gets enough to give to criminal immigrants to pay bills. How many national parks do you see being carved up?

They got involved with Microsoft simply because it was ONE SINGLE COMPANY that controlled it, not many companies controlled by shareholders. I hope you can understand this ;)

huh? what makes you think i want the government to get anymore tax dollars....i said if they have the power the enforce a "windfall" tax, they have the power to cap the pricing on gasoline.....your right microsoft was one company...but what happens if microsoft(which have share holders, and lots of people working for them also), apple, ibm, compaq, dell etc etc etc, get together and say that computers cost $5000?...and all the components cost $xxxx amount...this after the fact that our society has been set up for the last 80 years to survive on computers....would the government step in? well that's what's going on with the oil companies. look up the word collusion, and you will understand ....and if the government isn't here to protect us? then what do we need them for? their number one job in my book is protection....whether it be from terrorist, murderers, or HUGE companies rippin' me off....i pay those morons for protection..job#1...yeah the rich pay plenty of taxes sure, but guess what? they also make plenty of money too!! and the rich don't care about $5 for a gallon of gas, because they are rich!!:rolleyes: that's why they drive obnoxious gas guzzling vehicles....:ermm:

[Honda TRX250ex]

you mean i gotta give a leg to ride my 450?!

[1fst400]

I dont event look at the prices any more, I figure regardless im still going to buy it.

[chris46250r]

Originally posted by 1fst400
I dont event look at the prices any more, I figure regardless im still going to buy it.

Same here, gotta have gas no matter what it costs. I drive a lifted GMC Jimmy with a 350, driving across town to save 10 cents on a gallon costs me money in the long run.

the other day i was about to get gas then i thought "heck ill see what it is down the road, its on the way home" and it doped 20 cents i about mile and 1/2...you shoudl atleast look to see the price IMO

Originally posted by 1fst400
I dont event look at the prices any more, I figure regardless im still going to buy it.

no disrespect to you....but this is the attitude the oil companies hope for...:ermm:

[stalefish_132]

Originally posted by dlerch
no disrespect to you....but this is the attitude the oil companies hope for...:ermm:

so the price goes up and you'll quit using gas alltogether?

i drive a jeep with a 20 US gall on tank (75 litres) and to fill it it costs about($1.17 per litre) $88 to fill it at the moment. it gets 15-16mpg when driven normally. years ago when gas was cheap (say 87cents a litre) it would only cost around $66 to fill it up.
so in 10 years ago i would have saved $22, but i would also be making about $0.75 less per hour at minimum wadge. really it doesn't pay me to drive a jeep but no way in hell i'd drive a honda insight.

i read somwhere that if at every corner of the earth we grew corn to make ethonal fuels, on everypart of the earth any where that is growable it wouldn't even put a dint into the amount fo fossil fuels that we consume. nothign agais ethonal based fuels but we aren't going to be runnign out of oil any time soon, there are large i guess lakes is what you would call them of fossil fuels just waitign to be taped into ( here in Canada that is). If the price of oil went down the price of gas woudl hardly drop because of the amoutn fo tax that the government takes in. If the government really wanted to give us cheap gas & diesel (here in Canada at least) there is more than enough gas and oil under Canadian soil that if we stoped the importign of foreign oils we could sustain oil own oil supply for a couple hundred years or so.

all this " don't fill up on tuesday" will never work. basicly the only way to reduce our amount of gas that we use is to drive cars & trucks that get better milage or just drive less.

sorry about the rant, i'll get off the soap box:ermm:

[Rastus]

Originally posted by dlerch
no disrespect to you....but this is the attitude the oil companies hope for...:ermm:


I'm not trying to get in an argument lerch, because we all enjoy the outdoors and riding our Bikes and ATVs. What I/many others think it really means is that it doesn't affect their spending and life style to a point where they HAVE to think of alternate means of transportation.


Seriously, everyone ask themselves this question: How much would gas have to cost for you to stop driving your trucks/SUVs and buy/invest in something different? I own a fullsize chevy truck that gets 12-15MPG, I will state that right now. I've already got a street and trail bike that I ride whenever I can, and within the next couple days I will have an older BMW that gets around 30MPG for a work car. I've cut my spending where I can, others refuse to do it.

Some people whine, complain, and rabble rouse about the cost of gas and how it should be cheaper, and then proceed to fill up the tank on their truck/SUV. :ermm:

If gas gets to that high of a price point, there will be something to atleast somewhat replace/reduce gas use. Necessity is the mother of invention, and there will be someone wanting to take market share and consumers from the oil companies everyone hates.

[Scott-300ex]

You know wut though, Everyone should just SHUT UP about gas prices. And everyone's like, "Well its just so high now." Yeh well in 1970 when minimum wage was like $1.75 and gas was wut $.67? Well now its 2007 and its around $3.00.

Hell I remember when we were all b!t(hin about $1.07. So if you can't take it, call the White House and Complain to them.

We'll all fight 2 stroke vs. 4 stroke=We'll all whine about gas prices.


YOU'LL NEVER WIN!

Originally posted by Rastus
I'm not trying to get in an argument lerch, because we all enjoy the outdoors and riding our Bikes and ATVs. What I/many others think it really means is that it doesn't affect their spending and life style to a point where they HAVE to think of alternate means of transportation.


Seriously, everyone ask themselves this question: How much would gas have to cost for you to stop driving your trucks/SUVs and buy/invest in something different? I own a fullsize chevy truck that gets 12-15MPG, I will state that right now. I've already got a street and trail bike that I ride whenever I can, and within the next couple days I will have an older BMW that gets around 30MPG for a work car. I've cut my spending where I can, others refuse to do it.

Some people whine, complain, and rabble rouse about the cost of gas and how it should be cheaper, and then proceed to fill up the tank on their truck/SUV. :ermm:

If gas gets to that high of a price point, there will be something to atleast somewhat replace/reduce gas use. Necessity is the mother of invention, and there will be someone wanting to take market share and consumers from the oil companies everyone hates.

my whole thing is the fact that our government is in bed with these big oil companies....instead of letting them "rape" us they should be controlling what they can charge us for gas...i mean after all how much profit do they have to make???...all our government does is take take take, and it just gets annoying after awhile....when are they gonna give back to the great people of this country? i am a man of principle, plain and simple. i make more than enough money to pay these gas prices...to be honest with you between my wife and i we spend around $500 a month on gas...i'm a restaurant owner and she's a business analyst for the navy, so money is not the issue...again it's the principle that our government is suppose to be looking out for us, all of us....i just get sick and tired of them doing nothing for what i/we pay them(taxes)...when are they gonna earn the jobs we've given them? there is absolutely no reason for gas to be $3 a gallon....other than pure greed on the oil companies part....and the fact of the matter why our gov. doesn't step in, is because of lobbying/campaign contributions. and i think that is pathetic...we deserve better....

d lerch "you dont liek the way this country is ran, dont let the door hit you on the way out" lol jk


The government really shoudl do something about it though. My car gets 24-27 mpg and thats bad enough. My next car will be above 30 MPG

I heard on the radio that gas prices are going to be over $4 this summer :eek2: :mad: Gues we all better start driveing mopeds :D :cool:

[Eviltanker]

I drive around 200 miles a day round trip for my job (military attached to Philly PD) not to mention all the other running around I do. My other car before it finally died was averaging 30 to 40,000 a year. I broke down and bought a 2007 Honda Civic with the 5 speed automatic, Very happy now get 38-40 mpg on the highway. As I am also unhappy about fuel prices I figure
b&^%hing about it here isn't going to solve anything. I understand people gotta vent, I vent when I fill my truck up (26 gallon tank 98 dodge 5.9L) and only get about 10mpg on the highway hauling my quads. I understand how people get mad but, I'm not going to become Amish so I can ride in a horse&buggy so in my little mind I can feel like I'm fighting the man.

[ATV Chic]

This is getting out of hand, seriously. Price at lunch here today had jumped from 3.17 to 3.39 down the street! :grr: :mad:

[parkers30]

Originally posted by sexyatvchic
This is getting out of hand, seriously. Price at lunch here today had jumped from 3.17 to 3.39 down the street! :grr: :mad:

and today was suppposed to be the 'gasout' that was going to magically LOWER prices atleast $.30 gallon.

Diesel has been going down :blah: