tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post6461785697637653293..comments2023-11-05T03:45:19.337-05:00Comments on Apparent Dip: How much you pay for gasolineThermochronichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08606230819461771700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-23032249518289822482008-05-05T10:50:00.000-04:002008-05-05T10:50:00.000-04:00Anony - sucks you have to cancel the trip, I guess...Anony - sucks you have to cancel the trip, I guess the way I think of it. Lets say I am going to drive 600 miles round trip for a vacation. That means 20 gallons of gas for a fuel efficient car, which at my local pump would put me back a total of $72. That is one night at a cheap hotel, and maybe I eat at cheaper places along the way, or picnic. I see your point if your cumulative gas bill makes any vacations tough to pay for. My wife and I have been fortunate to model our lives in ways that don't require us to drive too much, we walk, bike, and bus (or train when we lived in the bay area), even though that meant fewer or smaller choices of apartments, etc. Unfortunately not all communities make that possible. I am still amazed though in my current neighborhood, I have neighbors who work the same place I do and drive in. It is a 1 mile walk! 20 minutes! An even faster bike ride, and even in crappy weather is not that difficult. <BR/><BR/>Anyways, hope you can find some way to get away this season!Thermochronichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606230819461771700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-11402935971356823452008-05-05T10:17:00.000-04:002008-05-05T10:17:00.000-04:00you know cause of the gas prices my family cancell...you know cause of the gas prices my family cancelled it trip for this holiday season; even though i drive a 04 honda accord and my dad drives a 07 honda cr-v and both of the cars give excellent gas mileage its just that we have to pay $95 dollars a week for both the cars thats outrages man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-62916930943801146232008-04-26T20:27:00.000-04:002008-04-26T20:27:00.000-04:00I wonder what Dick Cheney drives.In fact I wonder ...I wonder what Dick Cheney drives.<BR/>In fact I wonder what all the oil execs that met with Vice President Cheney the first year he was in office. In fact I wonder why those documents are not public and marked top secret. Does anybody else wonder?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-37770148294098937322007-05-27T08:27:00.000-04:002007-05-27T08:27:00.000-04:00Nice, a Prius would be sweet. When we first got ou...Nice, a Prius would be sweet. When we first got our Saturn one of our first long drives was California to Wisconsin, and we got over 50 mpg once, coming down the eastern slope of the Rockies, so I guess it was kind of cheating...<BR/>I got to thinking about this last summer. I drove a 17 foot moving truck 3000 miles out to ESRU, and that behemoth loaded down with all of our crap got better mileage than a Hummer.Thermochronichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606230819461771700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-64800051061010644062007-05-27T03:55:00.000-04:002007-05-27T03:55:00.000-04:00My parents came to visit Dixie in their Prius- my ...My parents came to visit Dixie in their Prius- my dad installed a little gadget that lets you use the battery more. They were averaging ~47 mpg before hitting the "hills" of the Appalachians. I think they wound up at 42 mpg all told. I think the round trip cost around $80 in gas. They love it."Ain't From Around Here"https://www.blogger.com/profile/03936624731956346419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371348.post-34434358069836961502007-05-26T11:44:00.000-04:002007-05-26T11:44:00.000-04:00our '96 Saturn kicked the bucket a few weeks ago.....our '96 Saturn kicked the bucket a few weeks ago...it was a good car...our new car is a Nissan Versa (which is kind of think is like a modern, and better, version of the Dogde Omni).<BR/><BR/>Anyway...so for us price and mileage were the top factors in buying a car. <BR/>Safety, options, color, etc. are all secondary.<BR/><BR/>We did the math on a hybrid and we simply can't afford it at this point...the Prius is really the only way that gets significantly more mileage and it is running about 28K once you put it all together.BrianRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930245080333999989noreply@blogger.com