3.99
 

per gallon for my oil - 170 gallons
f'in insane

Wow! I thought that 3.34 cash price was bad enough. The cost of gas and oil is really cutting into where I go and what I do when I get there.

i am grounded
 

i blew some kind of rear seal yesterday
im thinkin tranny

i ain't going anywhere....

at least in that vehicle

it's parked indefinitely for now

i need a lama :lama:

:walk::sick::walk:You may have to spend more time at home with the wife. :fishslap:

This keeps up i'm going to get me some horses and a buggy for the wife.

At least it was a boat refuel

$700.00+ for half a tank of heating oil?!?!?!? Ridiculous!!:hs:

you aint seen nothin yet.

I feel like puking...:smash:

Yeah. That's what scares me!! :(

Time for a revolution.:fight::rocketem::rumble::nailem:

Diesel is over $4:00

Anyone know whether they make a roof rack that'll fit a Toyota Yaris? :jump1:

Spend a few extra bucks and get the Corolla. I know you're probably half heartedly joking, but the Yaris is a piece of crap next to the Corolla and they get close to the same mileage. My daughter recently got the Corolla (we looked at the Yaris too) and she's getting 38 mpg. :smokin:

what the heck ever happened to the Volkswagon Rabbit that got 50 MPG and others that did close to that? :huh:
did the oil companys buy them all up?
I just wonder why since the 70's, cars have progressed backwards in the MPG area, doesn't make sense.
:bs:
Oil companies only care about money not the realistic things like the enviroment or the real world economy.

It's 2008, there should be cars capable of getting 50-75 MPG easily on gas alone, nevermind the hybrid crap.

:hs:

I musta got an effin bargain then my bill was ONLY $544.Other than a credit card this is the very first time in my life I can't pay a bill in full.

This has to stop.Period.

my brother had a VW Rabbit....serious no frills, but it cost nothing to run....he had that car forever..
When things are good people forget, and in the United States..Bigger is Better...waste, waste, waste...spend, spend, spend..:doh: sadly, everything is all about the money.....sucks...

They were diesels.

And even more importantly they weighed dramatically less. They were probably around 1900 pounds. A new one is a bloated 3300 or so pounds.

Nope - this was my home heating oil.

People laughed at me and thought I was nuts when I sold my truck and bought a VW GTI last year and put a roof rack on, but 15 mpg around town was getting old then nevermind now.

Now I enjoy actual numbers of 30+mpg on the highway, 24 mpg around town, and it hauls itself to 60mph in about 6 seconds so it's no slouch.

People aren't laughing now. More $$ in my pocket or to use to go fishing. I'm sure they make a rack for a Yaris too. :laugha:

Spring is officially here thursday. Hopefully we'll get some relieve.

Yeah' just in time to pay through the nose to fuel the car:wall:

I thinking boat. The car is troublesome in that you need it to get around.
The boat is painful at 50 gals a pop.

A 1209 will fit inside of a honda civic... and I have a soft rack for it, if I want to throw em on top or go over 10'.

$100 barrel again http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080320/oil_prices.html?.v=7

Notice no-one has said anything much in the news that oil has lost $10 a barrel in the last week...

Futures for MAY are way down...LET'S see if the price of fuel drops now. I suspect not. Heating oil is still 1/4 dealer profit no matter what they're making their money. Some towns are paying ~$2 a gallon for diesel while it's $4.23 a gallon at the pump here. Everyone got their hand out.

it sure doesn't

i had a diesel rabbit that i drove across country and back ...from San Diego to new england and back again...but it broke down in Mo. and i had to leave it there at a friends house....and flew to cal. then i flew back to Mo. rebuilt the engine and drove back to cal.
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it had dual tanks installed.... and with them i had a 1000 mile crusing range... when i left S.D. i had a whole bunch of plastic fuel bottles - full of diesel - in the back ...they were thrown away actually from used coolant bottles that i had saved....so as i drove to florida going thru texas i'd stop at rest area's anytime i could add one to my tank ok.... anyways the point is... i drove basically non stop all the way into the florida panhandle without ever having to buy diesel fuel at a service station. i sure miss the fuel economy of that car.

lately i heard though, that VW was bringing back the diesel rabbit.

they are a wicked small car however and will easily slide underneath a semi if you fall asleep at the wheel.:(

the X-Prize
 

i love this....

10 million Dollars for who ever invents a car that will get 100 mpg

this will stand detroit and toyota on their heads

it's gonna be great !

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science....ap/index.html

I think they've had diesels here every year since 95 except the past two years. They didn't market them agressively but they were here and actually achieved the advertised 41 city/49 highway. They are very desireable on the used car market and enjoy great resale value because of it.

There will be a new diesel Jetta this fall for sure and possibly a Rabbit. And the Rabbit's not THAT small. ;)

When faced with the thought of buying a new truck or doing something else. Thats just what I did. Kept the truck, use it for fishing and truck things. Bought a new Honda Fit. These little cars got it going. Handling, gret up. Car and driver actually have the Fit beating a Corvette in an S-trial. The Fit gets ~37hghy.

How 'portly' are you? I don't know if I can fit in the thing.

This would be my concern as well. Some small cars like my sisters Subaru Forester I could never drive as they appear to be intended only for the average woman which as Bronko can attest, I am not.

-spence

I was down in Jersey over the weekend. A gallon of regular was 3.07

90 pct of the sub-compacts are that way. It looks like a clown car when I try to get in and out. I have to rent a car on Monday, it will be interesting to see how small a mid-size is when I try it on!!

90 pct of the sub-compacts are that way. It looks like a clown car when I try to get in and out. I have to rent a car on Monday, it will be interesting to see how small a mid-size is when I try it on!!

Mid size isn't bad that's like a lumina, or a taurus size. I'd drive those. I won't drive them little crapcans though I think they're death traps.

$4.29 a gallon for diesel right off exit 98 of GSP. :realmad: Are they kidding me?????

I've heard $5 and $6 a gallon by summer time. If someone told me this last year I would have never believed it!!!

Glad I've got my Jetta TDI for long trips and around town when I don't need the Dodge. Got a spreadsheet and been tracking mileage since new. Real time average over 58k miles is 43.1 mpg. I thought this was good but with diesel hovering around $1 a gallon more then regular gas not so sure now.

Dodge sits parked unless I'm towing or absolutely need to fire it up. Paid $53 to fill up the Jetta yesterday. That is what I paid to fill my Dodge back in 04 when I bought it!!! :realmad:

Another thing...why is home heating oil near the same price of diesel???? There should be no road tax for home heating oil so WTF???

I do not get htat one either.

thats all. feel fortunate. Mine holds 200!