Here we go again!

I know people always bitch about gas prices, but I always just shrugged them off.
But tonight I filled my truck's 20 gal tank and it cost me $65.
I felt that one for sure!
I'm afraid to even think of how much gas will be around the time of the Paso show.

What are you gonna do?

 

I love that signature better than any other that I have ever read.

 

Screw gas prices! I'm building my 455 with 2 four barrels! Which reminds me, I need to talk to that guy who sells offenhauser parts.

 

Ha ha ha.... Yeah, I know a lot of chicks with butterfly tattoos. There cool.

 

Hell yeah!!!!

 

i have reservations for speed week was planning on pulling the roadster out from NY and doing the family/ sightseeing deal on the way out west but im having SERIOUS second thoughts about it due to what itll cost.

 

I've had my car off the road for a year so I am currently driving my 4.3 powered chevy truck.
I think when I was driving the Thunderbird I was paying like $40 to fill it up.
When I get my car back on the road I'm gonna need a night job just to buy gas for weekend trips.

 

I dont know about you, but my truck gets 10mpg . . . I'm sure as hell not going to walk 10 miles for $3.50.

 

The average new car payment is $450/ month. Add another $100 for insurance... that's $550 a month + the gas.

When was the last time you spent over $550 a month on gas for your rod?

That's how I rationalize it.

 

life aint about fuel millage. And goozgaz has a great point. Even driving my old truck that got maybe 10mpg im still way ahead of people driving new cars that get 30+mpg. And who cares if im buring our oil reserves. If you dont think the oil companies have an alternitive fuel we can all run on your a fool. Flat out, theres just too much money to made with old fasioned petrol is why we dont see it yet...

 

I dont't know what gas price are where u all are from but here they're $3 and mor, but thats prob do to the fact that jobs here are limited and cheap. I'm just glad I'm not super charged or I wouldn't be able to drive!!

 

yeah they are right around $3per gallon in most of WA state...

 

Round here premium is about 3.15-3.25 and with out hardened valve seats thats what i have to get then add the price of the additives i use and it's expencive but there is price to pay to have a bad ass old car, but i try not to worry myself about it, there ain't shit i can do about it!! worse comes to worse there is always propane!!

 

Last Saturday, it went from $3.05 to 3.49 in the same day...For regular.
its at 3.29 now. Gee, call me stupid, but I bet it goes back up tomorrow till Sunday..

This is at the corner station near my yard, I can get it for $3.12 at most local places.

 

O.K., $3.00 a gallon is high compared to what they're paying in Venezuela, but how many hot rodders do you know of down there? We've always had a better price than most of Europe, and still do.

That being said, I still ain't wild about payin' no 3 bux a gallon, 'neither.

FWIW, I was reading that adjusted for inflation and all that jazz, what gas costs now is about 80% of what it was during the gas crunch back in '81. Gee, and I thought that a buck a gallon wasn't so bad, back then.

 

Yep, that's how I see it, also. Don't like the gas prices? If you wanna play, you gotta pay. I highly doubt that bitching about it on the internet is going to drop the prices. Find other solutions.

 

hey seymour...ya work for texaco down there in bush land? HAHA your absolutly right when it comes to gassing up the playtoys...but when it costs 120 a week instead of 60 for me and the wife to get to work like just a year or 2 ago it starts puttin a hurtin on the budget. thats a big deal for those of us with not so deep pockets. just about everything you buy has to come by truck that fuel increase gets tacked on at the store. add on stupidly high local and school taxes that constantly increase yada,yada ....well lets just say theres a lot of frustrated pissed off workin folk around here.

 

Yeah I know the feeling, I filled up my daily pickup yesterday at $85.00 , I asked the lady behind the counter if they had complimentary kleenex with every fill up , almost makes a grown man cry. I know you definitely plan your route and importance of a trip to the store etc ... or not. I would much rather spend that money on something fun like parts for my project or tools .

 

In my state the tax adds up to about 80 cents a gallon. They threw all the tank farms out of downtown a few years back to build this super-duper shopping mall, except that the city mayor and council are holding it up trying to figure out how to get their hand into the pie and it's all vacant lots, still. So that didn't help either.

My driver gets like 15 and I'm still looking for a cheap S10 - even one with a bad motor, since I have a runner that the clown I got it from dissapeared before I got the title to it - so maybe I can still afford the summer car show season. Not having a lot of luck there, for whatever reason they either cost $750 and up, or they go right to the U-pull-it that pays like 1/4 of the scrap value.

As it is I'm skipping Rhinebeck next weekend because the gas will easily cost as much or more than what I can manage to sell in 2 days, last year I was lucky to sell a touch over $100 worth of stuff. Gas down is going to be $50 easy, tolls will be $10 if I go the Thruway, if I go the back way by way of Binghamton it's a little longer so I'll probably use a couple more gallons of gas. I don't forsee selling much more than I would if gas was still at $2.25 or so, you know?

In fact I remember when I made a trip to NJ last June thinking I was getting a good price at around $2 even, it was 20 cents cheaper than up here, and passing a gas station down in Rockland County somewhere coming back and seeing it at $3.49 for regular and wondering why the hell it was so high, then. What could it be there now, $5 a gallon? That was before all this hurricane crap. I managed to get through that paying a high of $2.67 but I also filled it up on that and drove minimally for three weeks. So I figure the gas is liable to be higher, down there, to boot.

I'll probably skip some others, too, depending on how I sold at them last year. Not worth the aggrivation.

 

I'm gonna keep building for performance and let the chips fall where they may.

I don't see any difference between now and the first gas crisis that I remember back in the '70s. When everyone was trying to build econo rods I was snapping up all those unwanted performance parts and building my stuff anyway.

I hope all you guys decide that bangers and wheezers are the way to go. That way guys like me get preimium parts at a decent price. We'll still be building hot rods and never miss a beat.

 

The politicians get on TV and bitch about the oil co.'s ,what they won't say is how much stock they own in them, and if they removed the taxes it would drop the price by almost a buck.I don't have a problem with the oil co.'s profits,everybody likes profit, it's the government's profit I have a problem with.

 

The ags companies make about $.09 per gallon profit. The government makes $.40 to $.80 per gallon!


jerry

 

"Once again, your opinion is wrong."
- Jeff Cateau

This thread has nowhere to go but down.

 

Some of my cars I don't drive too often .... they have fuel in them that WAS PRICED under a buck .... cheap gas and now its aged/vintage

We average about $90 aweek on the main drivers ...and we will not stop buying it or going places...we just make cuts in other places ..
Yes lets drill in Alaska more TODAY!!!