Switching from the vette to the bike wouldent help me

The bike uses 2-2.5 gallons every 20 minutes of runtime and thats Sunoco purple 110 or Citgo 110 mixed 40:1 with Motul 800 2T.

 

The price of gas will have little effect on the classic car that is driven every other weekend 6 or 9 months our of the year. The big concern is when adequate fuel will still be available. It may take 15 years, mabe 20 , maybe 30, or 40 years. Gasoline will not be around forever as it is today. You can find gas stations all over. In out futuristic world that will not be the case. There may be one place in town that still carries the 'old' stuff. Eventually, sometime down the road, you'll buy it but the gallon container. You'll put a couple of gallons in it, drive it around the block to show off to the neighbors and park it. Good thing is I might be worm food by the time that happens. Keep in mind that the goverment will be forced to looking into alternative fuels, no matter who is president (including the Bush family). Sorry to throw a plotical jab in there.

 

ya, methinks i'll have to start charging more for servicing the ladies!

 

Now stop beating around the BUSH (pun intended)

 

Try filling it sooner,like at half a tank....it would be cheaper....and you would beat inflation...

 

There's more oil in Canada than anywhere else in the world except Saudi Arabia. When the price gets to about $5 per gal, this will start to get tapped and we'll all be able to drive our Vettes another 100 years.

What's worrisome to me is that the paranoids won't let us use clean, safe, cheap nuclear power but will force us to burn expensive and rare natural gas for electric power...


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../22/CANADA.TMP

 

I thought a full 1/3 to 1/2 that already posted made excellent points (that agreed with me, of course!)

First: I've been driving for a quarter century and am on about round #8 of the "in the know" doom approaching silliness - I don't listen to it.

Second: At $2.45/gal - the most I've paid yet (about $2.25 this week) - it's still much cheaper than it was from, oh, '78 to '87 or so, when it was numerically about half that. Everyone I know is making more than three times what they were making then, including people the age now I was then, so the logic is obvious.

Third: Cost increases only make available new sources or new substitutes. There IS no realistic limit any of us will see - even if all the medical tech promised on Star Trek makes us live to 250. One of the cheaper alternatives is totally renewable alcohol fuels which are readily adaptable to and offer some advantages. None of them even impact the junk-science CO2 emissions greenhouse sillliness as they are from carbon already in the system. Whether blended with gasoline, more or less pure ethanol, more or less pure methanol or the handy mix referred to as fusel oil at one time, all allow much higher compressions, even if they lack the same heating value, and come from any handy source of recent dead things.

Fourth: Repair, upgrade and whatnot costs way, way exceed my increases in fuel!!! (I think I went through $7K in the last quarter on this albatross!)

Fifth: Factor in the cost of a NEW "efficient" car payment of a medium grade if you aren't trying to frankenstein a supercar out of a C3 but just getting one up to decent condition and you can get a tanker truck full of gas for free. (Wait till one of those trendy POS electricmobiles needs it's BATTERIES replaced!!!)

Sixth: Did you pay $85/mo for cable in 1975? $100/mo renting videos?
$50/mo on a silly cell phone? $75/mo on a silly computer and net fee?
$300/mo on health insurance? $10 for a movie? $50 for a dinner?

Seventh (yes, and FINALLY I'll shut up!): Like one poster said - flying in my royal PITA project car (for the 2.7 hours MTBF it has had this last year) brings me more piece of mind and contentment than saving a half buck a gallon on a few hundred gallons in gas.

Oh....we'll call it a "P.S.".... just to counter the "Bush" thing....yeah, I guess Jimmy and Billy don't have to pay much for gas building houses or getting astroturf burns in the back of an El Camino...

 

i am already paying $1.30 per litre and there is 4.5 litres to the gallon you do the math

 

At 90+ cents a litre it costs me $55 to fill up now! ...but with a small block it lasts about 5 days.

 

a gallon is 3.785 liters

 

its the same here and they are saying its gonna go up more.................

 

What sucks, when gas goes up, EVERYTHING goes up: Groceries, plane tickets, mail, etc, and anyting that is shipped using fuel, or a by procduct of petroleum

It sho' doesnt stop at the pump

 

I have already been paying that here in San Francisco....Average right now is 2.69

Jim

 

we have the highest gas prices of anywhere in the world, it's gotta stop. The wages here are nowhere near as high as in scandinavian countries and the high prices are really having an effect on the economy, people are putting their money on the bank instead of buying stuff.

 

True for U.S. gallons, but Canadians previously used Imperial gallons, which were about 4.5 liters/gallon. That's why they do the math funny to this day.

 

I only drive my car 300-400 miles per year. If gas were $100.00 a gallon I'd still drive it.

 

wanna good look at what's to come? read "COLLAPSE" currently a bestseller. we're going down the road of the Easter Islanders (and others) if we don't change our ways.

 

I pay 5 dollars a gallon for race gas so thats about 100 bucks a fill up. and to go out in my bout its about 270 dollars.

 

Looks like the Doctor Dooms are emerging...

 

not really. just the realists. excessive excesses lead to extinction of resources. the price of gas going up... and up...... and up...... and up is just ONE example.