Gas Prices?

chipster55 · Post by **chipster55** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:54 pm

The diesel price a couple of blocks from me went from $2.55 to $2.44 this week. That's the lowest it's been since I got my truck in October. It was $2.49 then and the highest was $2.59.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:56 pm

I got gas today from all those spicy shrimp I ate yesterday.
Hariett told me to take it on the road until my body stopped producing so much methane.
I then filled my bike for $2.03 per gallon. I didn't even want to be confined in a car with myself. Oogie!

tubaguy9 · Post by **tubaguy9** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:37 pm

Well...the middle of the US seems to have the cheapest gas prices compared to you guys...last I saw was at $1.99

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:25 pm

I used to dream of owning only a sailboat and a bicycle. Never could happen. Now I'm too old and portly to ride said bicycle more than a mile or so.
Hurricane Ivan caused the first gas rationing I ever experienced.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:36 pm

Bring back the Fiat 600. My dad had a 1964 model; bought it new. It got 41 mpg. It was about 2/3 the size of VW bug. Water-cooled engine in the back. The "heater" was a vent that allow air to pass over the engine radiator into the car.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:42 pm

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/ ... price.html

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:44 pm

alright whose got a tanker truck? Schlep can drive it.. looks like we're off to Caracas!

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:19 pm

My son free lanced in the car business for 20 years off and on. We like big, zoomy, comfy cars. He can find me a servicable Bonneville, Park Avenue or mini-van for five grand, anytime, and it will usually go 100,000 more miles. When I finish with a car, it goes straight to the dump.
Only having to buy liability insurance and no car note I can live with 20 MPG. I also have room for all my horns, guitars, my wife and a huge P.A. system. I always spend $250 for a trailer hitch on any junker I buy. I own an 4 by 8 open trailer and can rent a 4 by 8 covered trailer from U-Haul for $10 a day. That's enough capacity to take the Creekers cross-country non-stop. One drives, one keeps the driver alert and entertained, and the third sleeps in the back.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:00 pm

Don't forget to mention there's room for the watermelon in the glove box.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:00 am

When prices drop I fill four or more six gallon jugs I have in my shed. Gas lasts up to a year in a jug-three months if oil is added for marine outboards. I never add oil until time for use.
If no young people show up out of gas, I pour it in my cars when prices spike up.

Carroll · Post by **Carroll** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:16 am

SplatterTone wrote:Bring back the Fiat 600. My dad had a 1964 model;

My Metro would get around 50... MPG and MPH.

My girfriend and I would muss our hair when we stopped so people would believe it was a convertible.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:40 am

I have already commented on the price of Vietnamese gasoline, so I won't do that again.

Several of my teaching colleagues went to their home countries for the month of August and and here are some prices from various English speaking countries...

...it's $1.40 per gallon on the island of Malta (but it's not connected to anything--they're complaining about the "high price of petrol" there!)...

...it's $3.50 per gallon in Wellington, New Zealand...

...it's $3.80 per gallon in Melbourne, Australia...

...it's $7.40 per gallon in London, England...

...it's $8.90 per gallon in Singapore...

This isn't a scientific study: I just asked my friends how much they paid for gasoline. I had to convert liters to gallons and local currency to American dollars. I might be a little off.