$100 yeah!!!

So I filled up my tank today and it exceeded $100. Nice. Time to think about it folks.

What are we supposed to be thinking about Bimmer??? I've been leaving the Tahoe home a lot when I can take my gas sipper. (96 Taurus w/ 3.0 6 cyl.)  It gets great highway mileage (34.8) if you hold at exactly 60. I'm hoping gas drops again after this latest bubble or the hydrogen guys actually have something that works as an add on. (Do a search on hydrogen here) I don't have much faith in it but I'm hoping someone is brighter then the others. What else can you do if you like to leave for the lake every weekend and don't want to be $100 a week poorer?
 
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Look at the really big picture, yeah we feel it in the pocket but waht is it doing to the auto industry the big 3 are going to hurting in sales, some may say is serves um right for not changing but if you work for GM or Ford and they have to lay you off becasue vehicles are not selling think about how that is going to hurt when they have to fill up....
and it cascades to every supplier of those company's. We are looking at a serious economic crash headed for the American people.
I just hope this bubble burst before it gets any worse, hopfully after the election things will settle down but then again they could get even worse(r)
I don't my tank empty I fill up at 1/2  and I tell myself Im really filling up an empty tank then $50 isnt so bad....lol

Everyone wants to complain about gas prices.  When you bought the car you knew what you were getting into.  I didn't buy my Tahoe due to gas mileage.  I bought it because its the vehicle I wanted.  I knew it wasn't going to be easy on gas.  And in reality, gas here isn't as bad as it is most places.  I'm more concerned about the cost of everything at the damn grocery stores!

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html <-- I'm sure a lot of you drink Budweiser and Red Bull!

Same here -- I bought my Tahoe because it was the vehicle I wanted.
 
I have to pay the same $/per gallon regardless of what I drive. I did a cost analysis before I purchased my Tahoe and I knew in advance how much extra I would need each week in order to drive a Tahoe.
 
Gas prices are only a part of the picture. I'll refrain from my rant regarding speculators and their highly leveraged investments such as futures and options.

Yeah, but many of these countries that are paying high gas prices...that is where most of the countries tax income comes from.  Not like here where we get taxed not only on our paychecks but everything else under the sun.  Also we have the worst public transportation options in the world....and some of these countries pay little for healthcare because of there huge taxes on there fuel.  It's more then just saying....."we have been paying so little compared to...."

But I do agree with you about the prices at the food stores.......not good :(

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ORIGINAL: jophilpott

Everyone wants to complain about gas prices.  When you bought the car you knew what you were getting into.  I didn't buy my Tahoe due to gas mileage.  I bought it because its the vehicle I wanted.  I knew it wasn't going to be easy on gas.  And in reality, gas here isn't as bad as it is most places.  I'm more concerned about the cost of everything at the damn grocery stores!

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html <-- I'm sure a lot of you drink Budweiser and Red Bull!

Same folks that complain about gas prices think nothing about $1 for a small plastic bottle of water (tap in some cases).  How about printer ink?  It's about $5,000/gallon. 

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ORIGINAL: 73shark

Same folks that complain about gas prices think nothing about $1 for a small plastic bottle of water (tap in some cases).  How about printer ink?  It's about $5,000/gallon. 

 
 
That aint no lie, last time I bought some the salesman was wearing and eye patch and had a parrot on his shoulder....dang near gouged me with his hook

You're lucky he didn't kick you with his peg leg. 

Folks, do not get me wrong. I love my Tahoe so bad I sold my other cars just to have an excuse to drive it everyday. Thank god we still can afford the gas prices.

What makes me mad is that the price is being driven up in a most unnatural way. I just want to do my part to make them pay for their greed by saving as much as I can. It's bad enough that I'm an air conditioning contractor that does most of the commercial service myself and that extended van full of tools I drive during the day only gets around 8 miles to the gallon. It tickles me to death that two of my friends in the campground have new 4 cylinder chevrolet malibus that get even better mileage than my old Taurus and we are getting to the lake (about a 5 hour trip) to our little campground for less then $25. Since we're doing this I'm assuming others are doing the same thing. This will cause these investors to lose their butts if we keep it up. The market will eventually work I believe. I'm just helping it along. And my one friend with the 4 cylinder Malibu works for GM as a tool and dye guy. He also has a diesel Silverado with the Allison tranny. It's gotten rediculous to fuel up of late though.
 
How can you afford the expensive food or the $5000 a gallon printers ink when you're fueling up at the costs we're paying? 

Bottom line here is, if I couldn't afford the gas, I wouldn't have bought the truck. WHen I'm broke and destitute, I'll complain. Right now, I'm enjoying my Hoe.

I have to take back my post. It is not a technical discussion and so does not belong to this forum.