gas prices - Page 2

raublekick · 04-21-2006, 03:15 PM

gas was still under a buck when i got my license, ah the good old days. if i didn't have to drive so far for everything i'd use my bike all the time.

squirrels2nuts · 04-21-2006, 04:40 PM

ya, i should steal me another bike soon.

Mr Biglesworth · 04-21-2006, 06:50 PM

what happened to the last one?

Liss · 04-24-2006, 10:34 PM

3.17 when i walked by the mobil on the way to school today...3.25 when i walked by going the other way. (!?) i think i'm going to walk to alabama in june, since i won't be able to afford to leave the state of california by then.

squirrels2nuts · 04-24-2006, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Biglesworth

what happened to the last one?

turns out it belonged to someone i knew.

thecreeper · 04-24-2006, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raublekick

gas was still under a buck when i got my license, ah the good old days. if i didn't have to drive so far for everything i'd use my bike all the time.

i'm gonna be telling my kids about how i got gas for $0.76 the first time i got gas with my permit, and $0.85 the first time i got gas with my license. shit, 10 bucks got you more than a full tank. then i will hit those horrible god forsaken children.

teensupernothing · 04-25-2006, 07:03 AM

the cheapest i've ever paid for gas was $2.25... right now the cheapest i can find is around $2.83

heX · 04-25-2006, 07:11 AM

i remember not buying gas if it was over a buck. that was my rule or thumb back in the day. "over a dollar? keep on drivin."

Stormy · 04-25-2006, 09:16 AM

Let's just say I'm glad I drive a hybrid.

Liss · 04-25-2006, 10:34 AM

Yea, when I got my license I was paying about .97...I remember when it hit a dollar I was pissed off.

Mr Biglesworth · 04-25-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Stormy

Let's just say I'm glad I drive a hybrid.

hot. what is it?

raublekick · 04-25-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Biglesworth

hot. what is it?

yes, yes, do tell! those civic hybrids look pretty sweet. i'm still a little shakey on them, cus i keep reading stuff that debunks the greatness of the hybrid. i want to know how you like yours though.

Stormy · 04-25-2006, 01:38 PM

Well, it's actually my dad's. But I drive it when I need something temorarily at school. It's a honda civic; real cute, drives smoothly, quietly (mostly when it is in rest briefly, I notice this lapse in background noise). I can drive from Richmond to Charlottesville and back twice on one tank of gas. That's about four hours with one tank, give or take 40 minutes. Plus, on the gas gage, there's also a battery gage, and when you aren't accelerating and are traveling at a good enough speed, it'll start to charge the battery (this is shown by green lines); this makes driving on the interstate a bit like a video game, where the goal is to see how charged I can make the battery.

It also has a nice economy air conditioning feature, where it'll turn the air off when you stop the car at at other times, to help conserve energy. I'm an amateur at gauging how "superior" one car may be from another, but this one drives well, and it saves me costs on gas.

heX · 04-25-2006, 02:12 PM

sounds pretty sweet. im looking into a hyrbid for my next car. right now i have the next best thing a small 4 cylinder. i only fill up once a week for 17 dollars. mind you thats whith out being bone dry on gas, ive ran out and had to walk too many times.

thecreeper · 04-25-2006, 02:14 PM

only four hours on one tank? i drove a little about 4.5 hours this weekend to massachusetts and i got 4 hours on one tank too. and my car is pretty shitty with fuel. of course, it cost me 35 to fill it up too.

squirrels2nuts · 04-25-2006, 02:40 PM

ive never run outta gas before, but i am always on the red line. its kinda like Kramer, pushing Jerrys car to see how far it can go... i can usually get 500km per 50L ... 10km/L. not bad, i suppose, but i should prolly have a Jerry can, yuk yuk... i never fill up the entire 60L now; $10 gets above the red line enough to drive for a few more days of work.
i should try some jetfuel in my shitty '95 cli-taurus because my friend refuels planes at the airport. now that would be an octane boost! wouldnt do much good with my leaking brake lines. ever drive with no brakes? unnerving, to say the least.

johnny · 04-25-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by thecreeper

only four hours on one tank?

it probably has a smaller tank than your car though?

from what i can tell, if yer looking into hybrids, toyotas got the best one: the prius. but even their little toyota echo is awfully good on fuel. i think they renamed the echo recently.. yaris, or something silly like that.

raublekick · 04-25-2006, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny

it probably has a smaller tank than your car though?

i'd guess it has a much, much smaller tank. and hybrids aren't really designed for fast highway travel, because the battery can't sustain high speeds for long distances. but if people support them, maybe we can get them better and better.

thecreeper · 04-25-2006, 05:32 PM

yeah i figured that, i mean...my car is a piece of shit, so yeah.

jubjub

Mike · 04-25-2006, 05:37 PM

Yeah, the Toyota Prius is the best Hybrid car available. It's actually a really good car as well ... the first Hybrid car to not be a piece of shit.

THe thing is, if you drive a Hybrid car like any other car, then you're going to get essentially the same gas mileage. If you do only city driving, then you'll get great gas mileage because it'll run on the battery for like 85% of the time and using the breaks will automatically recharge the battery. If you do a lot of highway driving, though, then you won't see any more of a difference than you would in a similarly classed car.

This is the first generation of hybrids that haven't been a scam.

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Originally Posted by Creep

only four hours on one tank? i drove a little about 4.5 hours this weekend to massachusetts and i got 4 hours on one tank too. and my car is pretty shitty with fuel. of course, it cost me 35 to fill it up too.

You came to Massachusetts and you didn't visit me.......

Well, I probably wouldn't have let you into my apartment anyway.

04-21-2006, 03:15 PM	#21
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	gas was still under a buck when i got my license, ah the good old days. if i didn't have to drive so far for everything i'd use my bike all the time. __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

04-25-2006, 02:14 PM	#35
thecreeper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 2,330	only four hours on one tank? i drove a little about 4.5 hours this weekend to massachusetts and i got 4 hours on one tank too. and my car is pretty shitty with fuel. of course, it cost me 35 to fill it up too. __________________ good-evil.net - ahh, wade boggs...goes down smooth.

04-25-2006, 05:32 PM	#39
thecreeper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 2,330	yeah i figured that, i mean...my car is a piece of shit, so yeah. jubjub __________________ good-evil.net - ahh, wade boggs...goes down smooth.

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heX Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 937	i remember not buying gas if it was over a buck. that was my rule or thumb back in the day. "over a dollar? keep on drivin."

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Stormy i'm horny for hex Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 679	Well, it's actually my dad's. But I drive it when I need something temorarily at school. It's a honda civic; real cute, drives smoothly, quietly (mostly when it is in rest briefly, I notice this lapse in background noise). I can drive from Richmond to Charlottesville and back twice on one tank of gas. That's about four hours with one tank, give or take 40 minutes. Plus, on the gas gage, there's also a battery gage, and when you aren't accelerating and are traveling at a good enough speed, it'll start to charge the battery (this is shown by green lines); this makes driving on the interstate a bit like a video game, where the goal is to see how charged I can make the battery. It also has a nice economy air conditioning feature, where it'll turn the air off when you stop the car at at other times, to help conserve energy. I'm an amateur at gauging how "superior" one car may be from another, but this one drives well, and it saves me costs on gas.

04-25-2006, 02:12 PM	#34
heX Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 937	sounds pretty sweet. im looking into a hyrbid for my next car. right now i have the next best thing a small 4 cylinder. i only fill up once a week for 17 dollars. mind you thats whith out being bone dry on gas, ive ran out and had to walk too many times.

04-25-2006, 02:40 PM	#36
squirrels2nuts Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nowhere Posts: 557	ive never run outta gas before, but i am always on the red line. its kinda like Kramer, pushing Jerrys car to see how far it can go... i can usually get 500km per 50L ... 10km/L. not bad, i suppose, but i should prolly have a Jerry can, yuk yuk... i never fill up the entire 60L now; $10 gets above the red line enough to drive for a few more days of work. i should try some jetfuel in my shitty '95 cli-taurus because my friend refuels planes at the airport. now that would be an octane boost! wouldnt do much good with my leaking brake lines. ever drive with no brakes? unnerving, to say the least.