This isn't really a joke.....

[Romulus111VADT]

.....it's pretty darn sad. But this picture about sums up the problem.

[H]

Another impending problem here... after you've mortgaged the home, will it have bought you enough fuel to get back home?

8-)

[expat]

I dream of paying American gas prices

Matt

[Groundbound1]

I dream of paying American gas prices
Matt

I've travelled a bit, and I DO understand what you mean. As high a price as we think we pay, it's still very often just a fraction of what other countries do. However, ("rich, spoiled," American statement in...3,2,1,) imagine your fuel prices today, and add 30-40% more to it in 6 months time. That's just about how it hit us. For me, it isn't really the price that bothers me, it's the rate at which the price is INCREASING that's unsettling.

[Steve M]

And they make us pump our own fuel, check our own oil, and wake up the kid in the kiosk so we can pay them. 

[Romulus111VADT]

I dream of paying American gas prices Matt

I've travelled a bit, and I DO understand what you mean. As high a price as we think we pay, it's still very often just a fraction of what other countries do. However, ("rich, spoiled," American statement in...3,2,1,) imagine your fuel prices today, and add 30-40% more to it in 6 months time. That's just about how it hit us. For me, it isn't really the price that bothers me, it's the rate at which the price is INCREASING that's unsettling.

To think, my grandfather griped about paying .15 cents a gallon back in the 1930's and my dad complained about paying about .40 cents per gallon in the 1960's. In the 1970's it was around .60 cents a gallon. In the 1980's it was about .70 cents a gallon.

So it took an average of 10 years to go up about .10 cents per gallon. Nowadays it can go up .10 cents in a single day because speculators panic if someone in the oil industry is seen scratching his ass with the wrong hand.

[ozzy72]

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB ... 1298366248

[Romulus111VADT]

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1298366248

Goes to show you that both sides of the pond have their fair share of smartass's....lmao. I guess on this side we have more grades and more chances to pull a prank.

I remember one steakhouse sign that said, "You can't beat our meat!" It only lasted until the owner came in laughing his ass off and said it was a bit to risqu

[patchz]

[Romulus111VADT]

The ole apatosaurus (brontosaurus) keeled over dead, more oil for the future....lmao.

Allot has changed since it's creation in 1932...

Haven't seen one of the stations in many, many moons.

[DaveSims]

$82 to fill up my truck last night.  I almost went home and cried.  My only saving grace, I live four short miles from work, so that will last me the better part of the month.

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]$82 to fill up my truck last night.

[Steve M]

131 bucks yesterday to fill up my Chevy V8 cargo van.
I average a tank fill up every 3 to 4 days for work.

[Romulus111VADT]

I guess in a strange way, I'm lucky I'm disabled. I only drive my truck 12 miles a week on average. A half tank of fuel normally lasts me a good month or two.

The mechanics at the dealership laugh at me every April when I bring my truck in for inspection. I normally don't make the average of 3,000 miles per year fro the routine oil change. So my oil changed every April whether it needs it or not.

My 1999 truck just last weekend topped 60,000 miles. The first 48,000 were put on it between 1999 and 2001. So the last 12,000 miles has taken me 10 years to put on it; that averages to 1,200 miles per year! Darn... 

Crap, I might as well sell the darn thing! All it is anymore is yard art! 

[patchz]

[quote]I guess in a strange way, I'm lucky I'm disabled. I only drive my truck 12 miles a week on average. A half tank of fuel normally lasts me a good month or two.

The mechanics at the dealership laugh at me every April when I bring my truck in for inspection. I normally don't make the average of 3,000 miles per year fro the routine oil change. So my oil changed every April whether it needs it or not.

My 1999 truck just last weekend topped 60,000 miles. The first 48,000 were put on it between 1999 and 2001. So the last 12,000 miles has taken me 10 years to put on it; that averages to 1,200 miles per year! Darn...