Thread: How are gas prices affecting you???

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Originally Posted by mopar34

Ford2custom wrote:


Not walking to church. Church is 20 miles away. Might have to find new religion. Got a Luthern church about a half mile away, maybe I'll convert. Always good to stay in His good graces. Think I will give up the beer and split the pizza with the cats.

You could stay home watch the T.V. Minister's just send some money and all's well that ends well least that's what they say "Just Go to the phone call this number."

Richard

Well here diesel is $4.70 a gal. costs me about $130 a week for fuel and I don't go anywhere else. Decided to skip all the car shows it would cost to much to haul the camper and pull the trailer ,plus miss work. I don't think its worth all the money. I'm thinking about selling my 32 just so I don't have to spend more for fuel.

Rocky

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her out to some place expensive..................

So I took her to a gas station

Originally Posted by ceh383

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her out to some place expensive..................

So I took her to a gas station

Now thats funny ..............

Well it cost me $50 to fill up the tank of my little Sunfire. I am restricting travel somewhat but I will need to commute every day in June, July and August for a round trip of about 26 miles so that is slightly over 1 gallon per day. Why is the Bush Administration getting blamed for this? As I recall Bill Clinton vetoed the bill for drilling in ANWR and the obstructionist D-party has continued to block drilling and other energy policies but today had the nerve to grill oil company execs and blame them! Experts keep saying there is oil on U.S. soil as well as a lot of coal and natural gas but environmental issues keep blocking exploration. I admit coal mining is dangerous and coal is dirty but there is natural gas and petroleum untapped in the U.S. but environmental issues keep blocking development. There has to be a compromise, cleaner production sure, but keep exploring; paint future ANWR oil equipment white so it won't offend the caribou!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Oil just went to $ 135 a barrel today, so hang on to your wallets.

Gas here jumped 10 cents a gallon from yesterday. $ 5 a gallon is right around the corner.

Don

You know what they say.....they always try to get as much as possible right before its over......I will put my tinfoil hat back on and goto my corner now.
On a good note you can but 1000 dollars worth of amero coins for 1300 dollars.

Well I had to go get gas for my lawnmower yesterday and I have 2 cans that hold 2 1/2 gallons. I only put 2 gallons in each as it is easier to not spill any when I first start using them. That 4 gallons cost me almost $19 dollars. Then I saw a picture of a sign in Hollywood where Diesel was $4.99 a gallon and gas was $4.99, $4,89, and $4.79. And people were rushing to fill up before it went over $5 a gallon. Everything here is really bad and food is getting so expensive it is almost as cheap to eat out as go to the store.

Ron

I bought an electric motor scooter (Schwinn S-500) to get around the neighborhood... I'm seriously considering building an electric 3-wheel car for work commute and grocery-getting (3-wheelers are legally considered motorcycles which are cheaper to insure and license). I have been playing with electric race cars for a few years and learned a lot. I'm about ready to apply what I've learned to everyday life...

soon, all the rent-a-cops will be working as armed guards at gas stations instead of banks

Just think,the ONLY reason it is even changing in price is 100 percent FEAR.
YouTube - Dana Perino: I'm FIRED IF I TALK ABOUT THE FAILING DOLLAR!

YouTube - Death of the U.S. Dollar

YouTube - FALL of the Dollar, Rise of OIL and GOLD beginning of AMERO

I just have to post this again ..sorry ,its not meant to offend ,only inform and make you THINK!
YouTube - AMERICA IS TYRANNY - George Carlin

ZEITGEIST--THIS VERSION IS NOW OLD! -SEE THE FINAL, "REMASTERED VERSION"

Like almost anything I do not agree 100 percent with this ,but it raises some very valid points.......

Here is another.......
This a lecture version that is a no frills version..
The Pharmacratic Inquisition

This is the same thing ..hollywood style......
The Pharmacratic Inquisition DVD - Official Online Edition

Here is our leaders lieing like school kids caught with candy...

YouTube - George Bush, Cheney, Rice, & Rumsfeld caught in Lies
Just follow the links to the right of the video for thousands of other vids on the same thing.

Here is more ...
YouTube - Lies From The Illuminati New World Order Puppets

This is a exact reason I will be blastin when the round up starts ,i already have weapons in stash tubes buried in the woods just for this reason and when they fall back it better be really far because a .50 armor piercing bmg round dont play.


YouTube - WATCH FEMA & Local COPS VIOLATE OUR 2nd AMENDMENT RIGHTS!

YouTube - Barrett M82a1 .50 caliber 10 shots into a burned car

YouTube - 50 caliber hole in tree

Duplicate post... please delete.

I stand corrected, we no longer have to worry about offending the caribou in ANWR since the Polar Bear has been declared "endangered". Optimistic estimates are that while the State of Alaska is suing the U.S. Govt. to reverse this, it will take at least five years and so we can forget about the oil in ANWR for a long time! Still what is needed is a new refinery to process the heavy crude that is available. I have been reading/studying Electric Vehicles but It looks to me that it would be at least $10,000 to convert a vehicle to electric power, BUT (!) even if you make the conversion, most EVs are limited to a range of 100 miles or less per charge unless you have a hybrid like a Prius. The electric '29 roadster "Lightening II" featured a few years ago in Rod Action is very interesting but again it's range is limited without an onboard charging system. Almost ten years ago Mother Earth News had a set of plans to convert a VW Beetle to electric drive but with a lawn mower engine under the front hood (bonnet) that would run a generator while the car was parked to charge the batteries and they claimed 90 mpg but with a caution regarding the heavy weight of the lead acid batteries and the small drum brakes on the VW.

J. Robinson, what is your take on the Optima Yellow Top deep cycle batteries? They are cheaper than the red top version at only about $170 each AND they only weigh 26 lb. each. That means 13 such yellow top Optima batteries would only weigh about 340 pounds and cost only about $2200. With a 9" 100 HP DC motor (about $1500 and about 150 pounds), a rebuilt T5 for anywhere from $200 used to $700 rebuilt, a 1200 amp controller (another $1500 ??) and thirteen 12 volt batteries ($2200) and another $500 or so for cables and minimal instruments I could convert my '29 'glass roadster to a 156 volt EV but then it would probably have a range of 100 miles at best. Sooooo, it looks like the Prius model is pretty good, except for the weight and expense of the batteries. Then there is the three-wheeled model with both a small diesel engine and electric power but that is a whole new car, not a conversion of my present '29. My present conclusion is to keep studying the EV situation, but go ahead and finish my ICE roadster under the assumption that it is only a car for special occasions and that there still will be some gas even if the price goes up to $10/gallon. There is hope that if a new refinery could be built to process oil sands tar and heavy crude that there still will be some gas available in the next ten years or so. There is always the SASOL process developed in South Africa to make gas out of coal. Evidently it is a practical reality that a common sense solution is unlikely to emerge from Congress unless or until there is another attack on U.S. soil.

Oh yes, here is another question. A recent conversation with a professional EV builder/converter here in Virginia offered an interesting idea of using a fully synchromeshed T5 transmission WITHOUT A CLUTCH. Occording to that gentleman all you have to do is "back off " the amperage for each shift and there is no need for a clutch, just shift during the rpm lag as racers have done for a long time??? However, I would really like to know if the synchromesh can really do this for long? Does this seem reasonable to folks on this Forum? (It sure solves the clutch linkage problem!)

Finally, another question is whether this Forum will readily accept EVs, so I commend J. Robinson and look forward to other EV builds.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

By the time the general public nimrods demand action and Congress acts we will all be in electric scooters...not electric cars.

Saving our oil is confusing....IF we save it for the "future" then why are we developing technology to "replace our dependence on oil"...why not just wait for the future and use the oil we saved? The entire mess is about political power.... and we haven't any.

Originally Posted by Don Shillady

! Experts keep saying there is oil on U.S. soil as well as a lot of coal and natural gas but environmental issues keep blocking exploration. I admit coal mining is dangerous and coal is dirty but there is natural gas and petroleum untapped in the U.S. but environmental issues keep blocking development. There has to be a compromise, cleaner production sure, but keep exploring; paint future ANWR oil equipment white so it won't offend the caribou!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Strange you should say this , because up here they take the coal out even if it results in the loss or pollution of ground water. In this area of Pa. coal mining has takin hundereds of peoples water or polluted it , and there's nothing you can do about it. As for natural gas , they have come in on private property cut in roads and set up gas wells and don't have to pay the owners one red cent . From what I see the Bush Administration can do just about anything it wants , but thats just my opinion .

Rocky