I agree. I drive right at the speed limit, mostly because my three speeding tickets finally came up and got wiped off my record and I'd like to be clean for a while. But I also want to save some gas. I was taking my folks to dinner tonight and had some guy get right up behind me, finally gave up, and went flying down the road. He was out of sight in less than a second, and just because his BMW could do it, no other reason. And I'm sure he bitches louder than everyone about gas prices.
good for you! i let them pass me too! i actually do get a little bit excited knowing that my payback is really their paycheck --- at the pump!
Hey, me and my full size 1988 F-150 kicked a BMW sports car's ass around Christmas this year on I80! I was going along at around the limit or so, cruising(a mere 2100-2300 RPM) along in overdrive and enjoying the 20-24 MPG that combination of manual transmission and injected Ford Straight-6 provide, and this guy decides that he doesn't want to be behind my rusty old truck anymore. My mother is asleep in the passenger seat, I throw it down from overdrive into fourth for a little more torque while he's passing my door, red line it and match his speed, then as the road flattened back out a little bit, tossed it back into overdrive and watched him pull back in line behind me like a good little BMW-driving bitch!
...and then I resumed going the speed limit...
Sometimes this good ol' country boy has to prove that his truck has balls, and boy, does that rusty old 4x4 have balls! Especially when you consider that for the trip, I took the snow plow blade and threw it in the bed, so I was hauling a few hundred pounds of steel and snow around. I want to see his little car do THAT!
...and then I resumed going the speed limit...
Sometimes this good ol' country boy has to prove that his truck has balls, and boy, does that rusty old 4x4 have balls! Especially when you consider that for the trip, I took the snow plow blade and threw it in the bed, so I was hauling a few hundred pounds of steel and snow around. I want to see his little car do THAT!
My boss drag races his Ford pick up all the time, and apparently he wins more than he loses.
Now my Rav4... no pick up at all. I could win a race if I had enough of a head start to get past the pick up issue.
Now my Rav4... no pick up at all. I could win a race if I had enough of a head start to get past the pick up issue.
The old Fords, before they started phasing the Straight-6 out in favor of the less efficient, less durable small 8 that they use in upgraded form still today, had a lot of low end torque, and when coupled with the right transmission make for that stick-to-the-seat thrill. Off the line, my '88 with four on the floor wipes the pavement with the new ones with the Triton V8.
ya, my Accord floats like a dream on the highway but takes an extra shove on the gas pedal at start up. I know that always makes people mad when I'm first in line!
I wish I could afford a different car. We have two gas guzzlers-a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Dodge Ram. If I had my way we would have a motorcycle for my husband to get back and forth to work with and a cavalier/saturn/neon type car for me and the kids. The problem is no one is buying SUV's and trucks right now, so I can't afford to get myself another car without selling what we already own. It completely sucks.
*nods knowingly* they told me at the dealership that if i had waited another month to trade my SUV in, I would have gotten even less than the crappy amount i got for it anyways.
I live where I work, farming and all, and I still get screwed by fuel prices. No-tax diesel is over $4 a gallon, and I use several hundred gallons during the summer. I know a farmer out west who just spent $29,000--the cost of a double-wide home--to fill his farm fuel tank once.
Meanwhile, the last milk price I've heard is between 17 and 18 dollars a hundredweight. I think I know where the profit from that four dollars a gallon milk in the grocery store is going, and it's not rural Pennsylvania, that's for sure. And every time bulk milk prices go up any, the seed companies and feed costs go up more than the milk did. I'm going to post a picture in a little while of over a thousand dollars worth of corn seed and fertilizer, and it's not going to be a very impressive pile!
Meanwhile, the last milk price I've heard is between 17 and 18 dollars a hundredweight. I think I know where the profit from that four dollars a gallon milk in the grocery store is going, and it's not rural Pennsylvania, that's for sure. And every time bulk milk prices go up any, the seed companies and feed costs go up more than the milk did. I'm going to post a picture in a little while of over a thousand dollars worth of corn seed and fertilizer, and it's not going to be a very impressive pile!
*gulps* Oh! I am well aware. You're friend and that farm fuel tank makes me so sad. The gas prices are killing us from every damned angle. I believe that if we just slowed the **** down and put the speculators to death, we'd be okay.
Quitting it with the Ethanol bullshat wouldn't hurt either...
Ethanol situation is only getting worse. Iowa just lost a huge percentage of ther corn crop. Thats bad news for the ethanol market and the world food market.
Ethanol just doesn't make sense. Biodiesel, maybe, but not ethanol.
I'll prob be using gas til at least 2020, when my new Accord is ready to say its final goodbyes 
Really - that car could go on a lot longer than that, but it might be cheaper to buy a biofuel car by then or a hybrid. Right now, hybrids still don't make sense to me. They cost so much more and once that battery dies - you're out another $1,300.
Really - that car could go on a lot longer than that, but it might be cheaper to buy a biofuel car by then or a hybrid. Right now, hybrids still don't make sense to me. They cost so much more and once that battery dies - you're out another $1,300.Hybrids wouldn't do any good here anyway.
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