Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Ralph Smole
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 16:16:00

-=> Ralph Smole wrote to Finnigann <=-

 RS>   Re: Re: Gas Crunch
 RS>   By: Finnigann to America on Sun Aug 28 2005 10:16 pm

 > -=> Frank wrote to Diamond Dave <=-
 >
 >  Fr>   Re: Gas Crunch
 >  Fr>   By: Diamond Dave to Digital Man on Sun Aug 28 2005 12:50 pm
 >
 >  >  > I own a "gas hog SUV". However, it's only drive for about 5000 miles a
 >  >  > I don't think it's effecting the world's fossil fuel consumption rate
 >  >  > car I drive every day gets a respectable 25+ mpg. So just *owning* an
 >  >  > does not immediately make one a "gas hog".
 >
 >  > Is that what the tag says, or did you actually do some calculations when
 >  > filled it up at the gas station?
 >
 >  > Those so-called MPG signs on new cars are almost never right.
 >
 >
 >  > *** Diamond Dave ***
 >
 >  Fr>     I drive a S-10 Blazer ZR2 and that thing is a joke! 17 or 18 mpg.
 >  Fr> If I
 >  Fr>    had to drive it to and from work it would have to go! That 4.3
 >  Fr> vortec
 >  Fr>    is inefficient as they come. Thats a small vehicle getting that kind
 >  Fr> of
 >  Fr>    mileage. I can see why GM dropped the vortec v6. With that kind of
 >  Fr>    mileage you might as well be driving a full sized.
 >
 >
 > So, America now we learn what we should ahve been doing all along.
 > ONSERVING ENERGY!!
 >
 > Seems like we did learn something about conservation back in the 70's too.
 >
 > We can't look to the government to make life rosey either. Doing some [basic
 > research on things we like in a car isn't new to folks. We shop for satelite
 > radios adn style and color etc. But we don't give fuel effieciency enough
 > weight until we start paying thru the nose for it.
 >
 > Ask around... What do these countries drive normally? Ask the ones paying $4
 > per gallon and have been paying it for decades?
 >
 > In Germany (when I was stationed there) gas on the economy was around 4DM pe
 > liter.
 >
 > With 3.785l per gallon: we get 15.14 DM per gal. And although the DM isn't u
 > in Europe any more. it was worth around 1.55 per dollar Which works out to
 > about $9.75 per gallon for gas. And this was in 1991 values, too.
 >
 > So while we have junked the lower speed limits and turned away from the fuel
 > efficient cars, we are still asking ourselves, what happened and who's fault
 > it?
 >
 > ... Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon

 RS> Based on inflation, gas is STILL cheaper than back in the 70's.

I'm not all that sure about that. But then the reason was pretty clear. The
OPEC nations tightened the oil supplies and caused the hike in pump prices. Now
we have a hugh jump in demand. 

I think it's a precieved opportunity rather than a realy one. I can still
recall local dealers taking advantage of the 9/11 disaster to gouge their
customers. It took the state  to issue a warning to stop them and return things
to near normal.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn something very similar has happened
again.

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