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Gas Price crisis

Hey Guys I checked today the price here in Puerto Rico for regular is 63cents/liter that would be around $2.50, $2.55 the gallon of gas, my little cougar with a little more than half tank, to fill her up goes for $21.00, and this have to stop so I want to ask to all of the Cougar owners on ways to make our cars to spend better the fuel :america:
and God Bless our great nation :america:

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Easy: Drive it like a grandmother, keep it in good tune, keep the tires inflated, and don't drive it unless you have to (walk to the corner store, combine your errands, etc). You know, the ol' story the environmentalists have been telling us for years.

63 cents/liter is cheap. Try $1.11.9/liter, or $115.6 (they're paying that in Newfoundland). And while the current price of gas certainly sucks, it's no crisis. When you go to the gas station and there's no gas left, and the stations resort to rationing fuel like happened in the mid 70's, THAT'S a crisis!
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Was watching CNN on Sunday and they had one of those morning round table discussion shows on. One of the topics was fuel costs and how not only is gas high but natural gas and oil prices are going up 16% from last year just at the start of the season, probably higher thereafter. There were 2 diffrent opinions regarding gas, one being that gas lines may return by late next year or the following summer. The other opinion was that fuel will remain on a supply and demand market structure and gas prices will continue to rise and possibly be near $5 US by late next year.

Also we should be grateful to China, who is importing a large amount of cheap oil into the US market. Watch out for the Southern American OPEC countries like Ven. who, sometimes decides "hey, we're not going to export".

Ah, it's good to have an oil mogul in office...  :mad:

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http://www.czabe.com/index.shtml
Look under "The Daily Czabe" link. This is where the quote comes from.

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5. Everybody needs to shut the F up about gas prices. Everybody screams like a little bitch because what? Gas doesn’t cost $1.09 like it was 1985? Get over it. Adjusted for inflation, gas is cheaper now that it was then. Yeah, inflation, bitch. Ever heard of it? Stuff costs more. When people say gas costs too much, I always ask: “Oh really? What do you think a fair price is?” Nobody ever has a good answer to that one. Should a gallon be 50 cents less? Maybe. But all these stories about how much of a terrible “impact” it is making on the “poor” is a bunch of . These stories assume that the “poor” otherwise live a perfectly disciplined economic life. When you see somebody crying about high gas costs on a local TV report, I bet you can find used lottery scratch offs, packs of smokes, and cable TV in their house. Gas costs more, you pen 15s. Drive less, get a hybrid, save money elsewhere, or f’ing walk. I don’t care, and nobody does either.


This is the type of thing that  me of. And the additude that keeps the price going up.

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Its the hybrids that are bringing up the gas prices. If we all drove mid 70's lincolns gas would be cheap as hell. Its the economic cars that are making it cost alot. I think that we should all pay the same amount for a tank of gas. Watching all of my freinds fill up for $20  me off. I have put over $75 of regular unleaded gas in my car. I am proud of that. Its the little stupid kids buying imports that are making gas cost more. If our cars got 40 MPG vs 20 MPG, then they are just going to charge twice as much.
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I drove around for over 3 hours just cruzing. As long as I can afford to fill my take in my peice of garbage $500 or less cars, vs buy a $85000 hybrid, I will. Right now it is cheaper for me to buy a car twice a month then it is to make payments on one new more fuel better car. Screw em. Its those that are playing there little game that make it suck for the rest of us. I will fill my tank all day every  day if I have to. Its funny it really is. The better miliage cars get, the more gas costs.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Quote from: Haystack
Its the hybrids that are bringing up the gas prices. If we all drove mid 70's lincolns gas would be cheap as hell. Its the economic cars that are making it cost alot. I think that we should all pay the same amount for a tank of gas. Watching all of my freinds fill up for $20  me off. I have put over $75 of regular unleaded gas in my car. I am proud of that. Its the little stupid kids buying imports that are making gas cost more. If our cars got 40 MPG vs 20 MPG, then they are just going to charge twice as much.
*edit*
I drove around for over 3 hours just cruzing. As long as I can afford to fill my take in my peice of garbage $500 or less cars, vs buy a $85000 hybrid, I will. Right now it is cheaper for me to buy a car twice a month then it is to make payments on one new more fuel better car. Screw em. Its those that are playing there little game that make it suck for the rest of us. I will fill my tank all day every  day if I have to. Its funny it really is. The better miliage cars get, the more gas costs.



You have it completely backwards. Supply and demand are the two factors driving gas prices up. The more we use, the more it costs. Not the other way around.

Also, consider that American made cars have progressively gotten worse on fuel, when you add up the numbers, every year. THAT is driving the cost of fuel up.

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Ah, it's good to have an oil mogul in office


Yeah because that's the reason gas prices all over the world are rising higher and higher and not only in the US.  :rolleyes:
-Jim
1987 Cougar LS 5.0

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google the phrase "peak oil""shortage"
see what you come up, specifically peak oil.

interesting reading

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Honestly I think it is just a joke and a trick to make us pay more. There is a possibility that it will run out, but I personally am not worried. I remember reading some articles in a newspaper saything the same thing. Apperentally we will run out of water like 20 years ago. Its just a media scare. Sorry that is just my opinion.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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I guess I'm a stupid kid with my little economy car then.  My neon gets about 34mpg highway.  I guess I'd be doing us all a favor if I drove my T-bird instead.  The bird would cost $60 to fill up as opposed to my Neon which would only hold $30 from completely empty.  Maybe if I put a hole in the gas tank I'd get gas mileage around 10mpg and then prices would go down.  Stupid economy cars.

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yeah I agree. No j/k. I am just saying with how things are now, when we meet the supply/damand then the prices will still go up. they still make a butload off of it anyways. eh I will just stop posting here so I dont piss any one off.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

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Ok, but who's making all the money?  I work at a gas station and I haven't had a raise in well over a year, contrary to company policy.  No one I work with, nor the owner is raking in tons of dough.  I'm interested to know who's making all the money.

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Quote from: jkirchman
Yeah because that's the reason gas prices all over the world are rising higher and higher and not only in the US.  :rolleyes:


Jim, didn't you know?  Our president wants to make money on oil, being an 'oil mogul' so he raised prices.  And, since the United States is at the leading edge of anything and everything, all the countries all over the world followed suit, because we are the USA and everyone wants to be like us because we're the best forever and always. They're just jealous.  So yes, it is the President's fault.  It might seem like we just blame him because it's easy to place the blame with him because of his declined approval by the public, but nope, he's behind it all.

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Since when did Bush run OPEC?

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Twice in the '70s the Saudis turned off the oil. You could only buy gas every other day. If your tag was an even number , you could buy on even days if your tag was odd you bought on odd days.
You could only get five gallons at a time and you had to wait in line to get that.
I had to wait out lines at two stations on my day just have enough gas to commute to work.

In Texas people were demanding the Governor stop Texas oil from being shipped to other states.