rickholio

50 painful fillings.

iwantchixx

I'm really happy with my Civic's fuel economy. Of course with my heavy foot I only get about 27 MPG. My gf gets around 30 MPG.

rickholio

I'll probably end up getting a Toyota Prius or similar hybrid. 50 mpg city ain't bad, and apparently some people have been hacking them to accept wall current, yielding up to 180mpg(!!!!) for short trips of 30-40km or less using predominantly battery power. Considering the majority of our vehicle use is buying groceries from the local superstore (around 20km round trip) or ferrying kids around (always within 40km) it sounds pretty close to perfect.

Before you enviro's jump down my throat, yes I know I'm offloading energy consumption from the pump to the power station, and yes our local power generation is coal-fired so it's still fossil-fueled. Get over it. If more people used electric cars, it'd allow fuel consumption vs. power generation to be centralized and more efficient, reducing the need to truck gas all the hell and gone and make the skies far, far cleaner over major cities.

DarkJedi

You all need to stop whining about gas prices.

Seriously you sound lie a bunch of girly men, "gas prices are too high" "we pay too much" "what if it gos higher" blah blah blah.

Gas prices are actually under what they should be according to the average income.

What makes it worse is how much higher is it really? $25 cents? 5 bucks more per fill up on a 12 gallon tank?

Skip the supersized bigmac meal - theres your extra $5 at the pump.

rickholio

If you read back, the real price (inflation adjusted) is pretty close to double that of, say, 5 years ago. So that's $12+ per tank.

If you have a guy who drives an older car that gets 15mpg in average city traffic, has to commute to work 30mi (15 there, 15 back) every day, he's going to refill once a week. That means an $50 a month going to gas, and out of his family's pocket purely in just getting to work and back.

To you and me $50/mo may not be much, but to some that's the difference between a proper diet or hunger... and if it goes higher, it's going to bite harder.
That doesn't even take into account the across-the-board increases in cost of food, food preparation (if oil or gas stove, or electric in a gasoline-burning power plant), heat (as above), etc that could yield hundreds of real dollars of difference.

I said a couple years back that people really didn't have a cause to bitch, particularly those here who (ostensibly) are doing better than many. Things have changed.

rickholio

Oops, just realized that post I was referring to is in another thread. Here's a link:
https://gfy.com/7034265-post20.html