Gas Pains!!!!

[Peter_AUS]

You are paying around $10.28 per gallon Australian equivalent, that is terrible SmartWombat (Paul). I didn't realise it was quite that high. Current converison rate $1Aus eq £0.42 so you do the equation as see if I am correct. I used the £0.96 per litre you quoted.

[SmartWombat]

Do you use the imperial gallon or the US gallon ?
It's 1.2 UK:US so that makes it only $6.75 US
Still plenty, even at 60mpg (OK 30mpg on the racetrack)

[Peter_AUS]

Paul I would think that England and Australia use the same as each other when it comes to Gallons, but the USA probably uses something else (just to be different as usual), like colour and color for example. Still pretty high though for UK.

[JSPhoto]

I'm taking donations so I can fill my truck up and get to work It depends on what day the money arrives as to how much it will cost Lets see, it should be something like this:

Monday $2.99 gal
Tuesday $3.19 gal
Wednesday $3.49 gal
Thurdsay $3.49 gal
Friday before 8pm $3.49 after 8pm $3.19gal

Ok, now for the fun part. It takes 35 gallons to fill the truck and it gets around 10mpg. I average around 2000 miles a month.......October, December, March and May are busiest months and in May I average 3500 miles. At worst it costs $122 to fill my tank at $3.49 gallon......Any takers?

[paulnj]

WHAT kind of truck do you own ??

my SUBURBAN with a carberated 454 got 13 MPG CITY way back in the early 90's and it was a tire burner

My god, my NEIGHBORS 64 vette with a 528 ci street engine got 10 MPG average and it was pushing 970HP !!

A LTL9000(500HP turbo deisel) loaded to 80k GVW got better than your ride.

My suggestion is a used 4CYL car for the times you don't need to haul a camper or ride through rivers ;)

[JSPhoto]

a 97 Dodge 2500 4x4 w/ 4.11 gears and a lil ole 360 under the hood. I'm not joking when I say it gets 10mpg.....think of what I get when I hook up my 13,000lb 5th wheel trailer too! The truck weighs in at a paltry 6200lbs EMPTY! Now see why it gets 10mpg on a good day?

I do have a 90 Plymouth Voyager....but it keeps dying and no one can figure it out.....gremlins is all I can figure.

[JSPhoto]

I'm glad I don't own my old 78 Chevy Blazer anymore. It got 5mpg on a good day. Home built 350 pushing 600hp w/dual Holley 4bbl's and 44" Super Swamper tires. My knees got so bad I couldn't climb in the thing.....

I tore up a few NJ roads with it.....I lived in PA at that time though.

[paulnj]

BEEN THERE.......

I have owned a few gas hogs in my youth..

67 chevelle w/ LS 7(1000CFM )HP unknown, but I would say high 600's atleast
69 camaro with a 550HP 350 and 411's
My tahoe, 64ford PU , suburban, lightning, 454SS PU, 71 cuda 440 6pack(sold the 6 pak and put dual quads instead ), 68 roadrunner 383 and my favorite truck was a F550 superduty deisel that would move a mountain, but couldn't break 80MPH with those insane gears in the rear that were like 498 or something like that(2ND to 5TH and shifting was done)?

I now own a ford ranger 4L with 32's that gets 18MPG average so my latest fill up calculation told me(tune up time). No more dragging a stump grinder, chipper or trailer (besides my 17ft boat), so no need for a full sized truck.

We own a ford escort too and I am thinking of getting another used 4cl to save $$ in the long run.

I used to make DAY trips to MARYLAND and the ADIRONDACKS to shoot, but now don't want to leave my county to do so ;)

[VanillaKisses]

I caught one of the signs... out of order!

could you imagine, paying THOSE prices!?

(ours is 3.09 - 3.19 for regular atm)

[JSPhoto]

Hmmm, lets see here, at one point it says $9.09 and then $209 for unleaded. at those prices it would cost me $318.15 and $7315 respectivly to fill my truck!

Anyone wanna buy a big ole Dodge??????

JS

[Peter_AUS]

It hit $5.02US a Gallon here in Sydney Australia today. Even though over the past few weeks the cost of Oil has been droping.

[beetlejuice]

Just as gas prices were going down, here comes Rita.

They are saying gas could hit $5.00 per gallon here in the states and to make matters worse natural gas could/will go up 50%.

Having a natural gas home and a few gas tanks to fill all of this is starting to add up!!!!!!

Frank

[paulnj]

"Having a natural gas home and a few gas tanks to fill all of this is starting to add up!!!!!!"

No Frank.... EVERYTHING goes up with the OIL PRICES.

Just today my brother commented that a 12 pack of bud bottles went up over a dollar in cost in the last week.

[beetlejuice]

[QUOTE=paulnj]No Frank.... EVERYTHING goes up with the OIL PRICES.

Thanks Paul.......As if I wasn't bummed out enough.

Frank

[paulnj]

Sorry to be so TRUTHFUL

Could be worse though.... Bush CAN'T run this time

[JSPhoto]

Well I'm lucky on the propane gas side of things. My supplier is locked in at a specfic price till next July.... and I don't pay when it is filled, only what I use each month as the tank is metered
Whew, I'd hate to think of paying out a grand every time the tank needs filled!

Well I know a few pros jacking their prices up to cover the added expenses for fuel. Now if the paper would up the mileage charge.... 25 cents a mile just doesn't cut it!


JS