gAs $3/gal effect?
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From: Minnesota
Originally Posted by smoothsailing
Forcast now is $3.00 per gallon by next year. If this happens how much effect do you think this will have on our hobbie? Car values, time driving etc. 
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From: Smile, it's just the internet.
at $3/gal, that's about $55 to fill up and will entertain me for a full day at LEAST. Last time I took the family to the movies, it cost me $50 for two hours of marginal entertainment...
Nope. Still gonna drive.
Nope. Still gonna drive.
Drifting
Joined: Jul 2003
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From: East China MI
Food? Who needs food? Give me the gas.
Seriously, based on the cost of living index, gas is cheeper today than it was in the 1950's. It also consumes a lower percentage of personal income today than it did then. This is all media hype. How much did a house cost 20, 30 or 40 years ago? How about a car, a loaf of bread or anything else for that matter? What would your income have been back then? Come on, we don't complain about $20.00 a gallon bottled water, but $3.00 a gallon for gas is high? Even at $3.00 we will have the cheepest gas in the world. Ever read in the papers that the sky is falling because of the high cost of news papers? Journalists are not necessarily experts or even knowledgeable. Where's OJ when we need him?
Seriously, based on the cost of living index, gas is cheeper today than it was in the 1950's. It also consumes a lower percentage of personal income today than it did then. This is all media hype. How much did a house cost 20, 30 or 40 years ago? How about a car, a loaf of bread or anything else for that matter? What would your income have been back then? Come on, we don't complain about $20.00 a gallon bottled water, but $3.00 a gallon for gas is high? Even at $3.00 we will have the cheepest gas in the world. Ever read in the papers that the sky is falling because of the high cost of news papers? Journalists are not necessarily experts or even knowledgeable. Where's OJ when we need him?
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From: Phoenix AZ
I don't like paying more at the pump, But in my first year of college a gallon of gas was 1/4 of my hourly wage. It's cheaper now compared to my income. If it gets back there again I'll still be driving my Vette.
Drifting
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From: Burlington WI
Que sera
Gas is going to cost whatever gas will cost. It still won't diminish the enjoyment of driving my Vette, my 68 GMC or riding my Harley.
1978 L48
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Oh yeah, and a 5 HP gas powered Devilbis compressor and a Weedeater lawnmower
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1978 L48
1967 Harley Davidson FL
1968 GMC 1/2 ton
1999 Dodge Dakota
Oh yeah, and a 5 HP gas powered Devilbis compressor and a Weedeater lawnmower
CO rules!!
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From: Patchogue New York
I will still be filling her up with super, when she's empty no matter what the cost. When I go for a ride, it clears my stress. That's worth a million each time I get out, so $3.00 a gallon is nothing. 
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we hit close to 7$ today 
The weather is nice and I was driving my truck every day last week but I put it in the garage again, over 60$ a day on gas was a little too much still enjoyed driving it though.
The weather is nice and I was driving my truck every day last week but I put it in the garage again, over 60$ a day on gas was a little too much still enjoyed driving it though.
Last edited by Twin_Turbo; Jun 21, 2005 at 07:10 PM.
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From: caraquet N.B Canada
Originally Posted by CGGorman
at $3/gal, that's about $55 to fill up and will entertain me for a full day at LEAST. Last time I took the family to the movies, it cost me $50 for two hours of marginal entertainment...
Nope. Still gonna drive.
Nope. Still gonna drive.
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From: The Armpit of Illinois Platato says..... "Sometimes your the windshield & sometimes your the bug".
St. Jude Donor '05
My God!! $3.00 a gallon? That means I'l spend $30 per year in gasoline!
Those oil company Ba$tards!
STW!
Platato
Now, the cost of wax! That's the thing that really chaps my hide. The stuff runs me about twice my yearly fuel cost!
Those Ba$tard bees and carnubas!
Those oil company Ba$tards!
STW!
Platato
Now, the cost of wax! That's the thing that really chaps my hide. The stuff runs me about twice my yearly fuel cost!
Those Ba$tard bees and carnubas!
Last edited by platato; Jun 21, 2005 at 10:40 PM.
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From: one night in Bangkok you are never lonely
Originally Posted by page62
So what? I hope it does go to $3/gallon. It'll take some of those monster SUVs -- and their incompetent idiot drivers -- off the road! 
Good on you but the SUVs may be history but the their incompetent idiot drivers will still be on the road driving Toyotas.