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- smcgrath, on 07/06/2008, -2/+96FTA -
Colleen Hammond of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, loves packing her three kids and all their soccer gear into her 2000 GMC Yukon XL. But she hates paying $160 to fill the 38.5-gallon tank. Last month, she parked the Yukon in her driveway and borrowed her friend’s Toyota Land Cruiser.
“I don’t know if it gets better gas mileage, but I like her car because it costs $100 to fill it,” said Ms. Hammond, 40. “I think $100 for a tank of gas is cheap now.”
These are the kind of people I want to walk up to and smack. Going from a Yukon to a Land Cruiser in not helping things! - Hangly, on 07/07/2008, -1/+77I moved up from a land cruiser to a land destroyer, and finally to an imperial land-dreadnought. It costs about $5200 to fill the tank(s) but I need all the extra cruise missile capacity.
- drgkstep, on 07/06/2008, -1/+56And she's a moron for thinking that how much a tank costs has anything to do with fuel efficiency! DIFFERENT TANK SIZE MORON!
- dangerousLEH, on 07/07/2008, -4/+55“I think $100 for a tank of gas is cheap now.”
That is the dumbest, most american statement ever. I drive a honda civic, and I'm still pissed when I have to spend $40 to fill it up. When I first got it, $20 would pretty much fill the entire tank. - mephitix, on 07/07/2008, -2/+40"Mark R. Price, founder of the Illiana Hummer Club in the Chicago area, owns three Hummer H1s, which get about eight miles per gallon"
Bet this guy feels like a champion. - drgkstep, on 07/06/2008, -29/+60SUV drivers are finally suffering for their excesses! I've been saying for 10 years that it was ridiculous to drive these monsters, and we wouldn't be in this fix now if it weren't for them. I have ZERO sympathy for drivers who pay $100 or even more to fill their tanks. Families with multiple children, which is selfish and wasteful as well, got by just fine before the advent of the Chevy Suburban. People got groceries just fine before the could load up pallets of chicken nuggets at Costco. ***** you SUV drivers, I'll be riding past you stuck on the side of the road in my economical car or on my scooter and NO you can't car pool with me, *****.
- Spanq, on 07/07/2008, -1/+27“It’s a huge inconvenience,” said Dr. Walter Bahr, a chiropractor in Cape Coral, Fla., who drives a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup and pays $130 per tank.
You charge people $50 to spend two minutes popping their back. I don't want to hear it. - inactive, on 07/07/2008, -4/+27It shouldn't be a Democratic thing or a Republican thing. It should be about Americans as whole first. We have the ability to Drill/Nuclearize/Alternative and bring about "change" to our energy crunch. We have the ability to make it environmentally safe to bring all this energy we have in our backyard online while not making some kind of major "sacrifice", live in the dark, eat bugs, rationing crap laws. Screw the oil in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela. Time to make them stop being a pain in the ass by the only way possible...cut off the money supply. I'm tired of having to go through this ***** every ten years or so. Build American energy!
- pakruse, on 07/07/2008, -0/+21One driver plus three kids all fit in a sedan or coupe. What sort of soccer equipment are they using that it would not fit into the trunk of a car???
I'm failing to understand why she went from SUV to SUV and not from SUV to sedan. - TheCash, on 07/06/2008, -3/+25I suggest killing yourself, thus leaving the rest of us your share of gas and making the world a happier place at the same time. Its a two-fer.
Honestly though, if you can find me a honda accord that can haul 2 tons of livestock feed and a 3 horse trailer I would be happy to trade in my truck. Seeing how that vehicle does not yet exist, I'll just continue chocking up my higher gas bill as one of the few drawback of my rural life versus an urban one. - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -1/+22I haven't filled my tank on my Mazda3 in months. I've been living on $10 at a time.
- thebigbradwolf, on 07/07/2008, -1/+21He's complaining because when demand increases, the equilibrium price increases, and as a consequence, everyone pays more, including him.
- brad3378, on 07/07/2008, -9/+28I seem to recall many Democrats including Barrack Obama supporting war funding, so the Democrats aren't exactly innocent. The national debt has always been a two party system problem.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -3/+21Genuine environmentalists take the bus, walk, or ride a bicycle.
- Tinu, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19Seems I couldn't have picked a better time to eliminate my commute and keep a home office.
- Hangly, on 07/07/2008, -0/+19Filled it with what, Chanel No.5? Jesus Christ.
- dinostabOMG, on 07/07/2008, -0/+17FTA: 'Bryan Carisone, a heating and air-conditioning contractor in Raritan, N.J., “absolutely loves” his new GMC Denali XL, an extra-large sport utility vehicle with televisions built into the leather seats. But in June, one week after he bought it, he pulled into a station on a near-empty tank and watched the total climb higher and higher — to $109.'
What, you want my ***** sympathy? You are complete idiot, Bryan Carisone, and you deserve what you got. - inactive, on 07/07/2008, -6/+23just siphon gas out of police cars, they get free gas
- phogasmic, on 07/07/2008, -4/+20I feel bad saying this.. but I have little sympathy for SUV owners, especially Hummer owners. Sorry but It wasn't necessary to buy those huge cars, not even when gas was relatively cheap. They were always harmful to the environment. The more I read about less SUV drivers on the road, the better I feel. I only wish there weren't so many of them dragging down the rest of the economy because of they're 100$ tanks.
- TheCash, on 07/06/2008, -5/+21Coffee, you make far too much sense to be a digg user.
- rald84, on 07/07/2008, -0/+15can't you read? he owns THREE of them so obviously he gets 24 miles per gallon
- MikeSobe, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14I went to Chagrin Falls high school and this quote perfectly describes 80% of the town.
- MattB123, on 07/07/2008, -0/+13Maybe they bring their own field?
- mustafya, on 07/07/2008, -1/+14Not to mention I'm almost 100% sure a ***** chiropractor doesn't need a dodge 2500 which is a half-ton truck made for towing big *****.
- Hangly, on 07/07/2008, -2/+15Genuine environmentalists ride a moose to work so they can fertilize the crab grass with its dung.
Sorry, it's really late and I'm in a dumb mood. - MalDON, on 07/07/2008, -5/+17There's no problem with war funding as long as you can make room in the budget. Spending like the current administration is now is just wrong. Then again, there is no choice right now but to fund, especially if we want the troops home in a somewhat acceptable condition. Imagine what would happen if the money just stopped...
- swengw, on 07/07/2008, -0/+12I don't see why they can't afford $100 a tank if they can afford $50,000 SUVs.
- blaker00, on 07/07/2008, -5/+16if you stop printing excess money and starting wars with countries in the middle east, than you would watch the price of gas drop considerably. ANWR isn't going to do anything. There are larger oil fields in montana than anwr. We don't have a problem with 'actual' supply right now, we have a problem with currency risk and 'speculative' problems with supply by possibly invading more middle east countries.
1) pay back out debts
2) Stop our imperial ways
3) Have congress veto useless bills
4) develop alternatives
.:. watch the price of gas go back to 50 dollars barrel or less. - Nemisys, on 07/07/2008, -4/+15I HOPE GAS PRICES REMAIN HIGH FOREVER!!!!!!
It's about time something finally kicked people in the pants to start CONSERVING!!!
Less cars on the road, less pollution, less in our landfills. This is exactly what our country needs. - Pissoff, on 07/07/2008, -0/+10Yeah, but everybody's a jerk. You, me, that jerk.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -1/+11Bras? Where?
- DeathonWheels, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9"Now, even not-so-gargantuan Toyota Land Cruisers and GMC Yukons can cost $100 to fill up."
I would consider both of those vehicles gargantuan. - Hamletlere, on 07/07/2008, -1/+10Honestly, sushicombo, I'd rather Barrack and the others vote for funding the war as necessary. Then I'd like them to vote for an increase in taxes as appropriate to fund that war. Then the American people would actually realize what it costs, instead of externalizing it as is currently being done.
What we have now is the equivalent of a crazed madman going out and buying tons of goods on credit, living way beyond his means, and no one seems to realize that one day he's going to have to pay it all back, with interest. - marx2k, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9I'm actually surprised that there isn't an SUV called "dreadnought" yet
- Nayson, on 07/07/2008, -3/+12I swear they are watering down petrol. When i put £20 worth in my car i used to be able to do about sixty miles. Now i struggle to get forty five. The bastards.
- BOFH2, on 07/07/2008, -3/+12I bought the vehicle, I pay for the gas. Why bitch about it?
- Qeveren, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8I'm not sure why you'd feel bad saying that. You make your bed, you lay in it.
- Rikkochet, on 07/07/2008, -5/+13The world is completely overpopulated and the industrialized world has shown lower birth rates for decades now. Still, some families insist on having 3, 4, 5, 6 children.. Why? I don't have an answer. What the *****, people? WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE!
America grew as a nation of excess (look at the way the city sprawls were built and the roads and commutes required, if the house and vehicle and belly sizes didn't already give it away) - now some people are waking up and realizing that that level of consumption is unsustainable. It's more infuriating to those people when they look around and see people who still DON'T. GET. IT.
We need to smarten up. Al Gore is right, and crying and calling him a hypocrite isn't helping (that's a general statement, not related to your comment, TheCash) - he's saying WE need to stop doing what we're doing, even though we're still doing it. It's the first way to start change. - hansonc, on 07/07/2008, -2/+10a couple of problems. The ANWR number is at best a wild ass guess.
Shale oil is worth exploring but the problem is, if someone figures out a way to get it out we're going to have to strip mine the shale fields. It's not like liquid oil that we just drill into the ground and pump it out. - mlrigsby, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8The thing that really drives me crazy is that we have known all along that excessive, wasteful, gratuitous consumption of gasoline was a bad bad thing, morally, environmentally, and in terms of foreign policy and national security. However, even knowing this, SUV sales were strong until gas prices went up. Basically, for an awful lot of people, the only thing that will motivate them to change their bad habits is financial pressure. Obviously, this proves all of us right who have been arguing for years that a "sin tax" should be applied to gas-guzzling vehicles, but it is little consolation now that the damage has been done.
- subliminalurge, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8Don't forget the "magic" fuel pumps.
I went to get gas for my lawnmower yesterday, and amazingly was able to pump 8.3 gallons into my 6 gallon gas can.
Pretty *****' impressive if you ask me. - Merendino, on 07/07/2008, -2/+10OMG, title should have read, "NO *****!"
- KaiUno, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9Use the last of the not-yours-to-spend-in-the-first-place-cash to get them the ***** home?
- fireman8871, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8The Aptera, 300 MPG car is almost here
http://Apteraforum.com - knuckles, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8If this were completely true then Canadians would be paying much less for gas. Instead, I'm paying $110 to fill the tank of my Isuzu Rodeo which cost me $35 prior to George Bush Jr. and yet our dollar has remained steady while the US dollar has dropped.
- Gumby_Mac, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9She's obviously one of the idiots who shop for a car by monthly payment. ANY monthly payment is possible given the right down payment and length of term. Somebody ought to install motorcycle gas tank underneath her landraper and then she'd think she's getting a REAL bargain at the pump.
- septicmadman, on 07/07/2008, -3/+10@Kent
You sir are a ***** retard.
Of course the whole concept of investing is speculation. Consumption has increased sure that's an incredibly important factor. BUT unregulated speculation that needs a ~10% backing in a commodity market lends itself to higher commodity margin buying compared to normal stock based margins which are in the range of 30-40%.
The general economic consensus is that an the lack of regulation has led to ~$40 increase per barrel. Yeah USD has dropped but there are multiple factors. - AdamFromMyspace, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7I'm giggling in my office from your comment
- Pissoff, on 07/07/2008, -2/+9You seriously need to get out more.
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