The gas factor

[riverrat2]

Gas sucks. My jeep costs about 50$$ to fill and i only get about 200 miles of driving. But I will still be going down to the cape as much as possible as long as there are fish.

[lurch]

I cant complain...I live 6 miles from work so I save there. If I only use the truck for work I can get a months worth of trips to the office and back.

I get about 18mpg in the 5.3L v8 so it isnt that bad...I get about 330-350 miles in my tank.

The high prices of gas do suck but like another poster stated I dont drink, smoke or even gamble so my vice is fishing and part of fishing is gas.

Maybe we could set up a trip sharing pay for half of the gas kinda thing???

[riverrat2]

Speaking of my truck I just got half the way to the cape and my freakin truck crapped the bed. Me and my vehicle have a love/hate relationship . I am f'n pissed especially since I bought 12 eels and filled my freaking tank for an all night trip.

[jfcortellini]

Regarding trip sharing, check out www.carpoolworld.com. These folks offer a very slick product for trip sharing, with the capability of setting up separate, independent ride share groups. I think the usual application of this technology is for home-to-work commuting, but it seems like it would work great for anglers wanting to share expenses, minimize consumption of petroleum, and limit greenhouse and other bad emissions.

- Jay Cortellini