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Old May 6, 2008 | 06:05 AM
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bite the bullet and take it in the keyster like usual..... complaining makes it worse. If it's that bad sell the evo, buy a prius and call it a day.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 06:58 AM
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That's why I have my little 83 rabbit gti. I can put in the crappy stuff and get about 30 mpg. I love daily beaters
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Old May 6, 2008 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by psphinx81
dont complain, i pay 5.59 per gallon. but its for 100 oct so i can jack up the boost!
Thats high!

I pay 4.49 for 100 at a local citgo. Its the only gas my car is tunned for. But i have a harley for teh gas milage.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:17 AM
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Last week one of our local E85 pumps was at $2.39 a gal. I'll be switching over!
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by V.8MR
Thats high!

I pay 4.49 for 100 at a local citgo. Its the only gas my car is tunned for. But i have a harley for teh gas milage.
The gas city by me in suburbia is over 6 bucks for 100. Where is the citgo?
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:24 AM
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Sigh, I remember when I bought my first Evo and I was paying about $20 per tank... too bad E85 means less gas mileage so in the end it won't make much of a difference.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:36 AM
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+1 for the cheap daily driver that gets 30+ mpg!
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:40 AM
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$.99/gallon days. Now I really feel old. "When I was a kid....etc etc."
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:40 AM
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Problem with e-85 is its corn based ... expensive to manufacture, less corn for livestock Bovine,pig, and chicken. cost more to feed live stock shortage of feed .. gas goes down feed goes up food at the supermarket goes up. Pretty sick cycle food and fuel are completely connected. Sugar cane is more efficient to manufacture e-85 but we don't produce enough of it and we tariff the hell out of imported sugar. There is a bill out there to drop the tariff for sugar to e-85 but the domestic sugar producers are for obvious reasons do not want that to happen. Anyway the point being gas prices suck
e-85 is not the answer either less $$ at the pump but you pay more in the supermarket. If Im going to spend lots of $$ on fuel im glad im putting it something i like to drive.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:50 AM
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Wow, there are just too many ignorant responses here for me to bother with. Suffice to say that those of you who believe Shell or Exxon determine the price you pay at the pump are severely misinformed.

Many of you are probably receiving the $600 stimulus check, right? That should cover the extra expense for this year

Oh, and yes, obviously oil companies are going to post large profits when their primary input increases in value as they need to keep their margins alive. Funnily enough, Shell and E-M's profits were SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN EXPECTED because the price of oil is so high it's severely cutting into their refining profits.
wow you must be a republican. Get out of here with that nonsense.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by 72Tornado
If you can't afford an extra few hundred dollars in petrol costs per year, perhaps you shouldn't have bought a $32,000 car to begin with...
some people just dont get it we mean you
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Old May 6, 2008 | 08:55 AM
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I was told by some classmates, down here in Southern IL, Carbondale E85 is under 1$ per gallon, i believe they said 87 cents, hes been useing it in his 87 camaro
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Old May 6, 2008 | 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by 72Tornado
If you can't afford an extra few hundred dollars in petrol costs per year, perhaps you shouldn't have bought a $32,000 car to begin with...
gas is expensive regardless of the cost of your car. Way to act snooty and condescending over something as unimportant as gas prices though!

Last edited by boozeup&riot; May 6, 2008 at 09:03 AM.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by 72Tornado
Wow, there are just too many ignorant responses here for me to bother with. Suffice to say that those of you who believe Shell or Exxon determine the price you pay at the pump are severely misinformed.

Many of you are probably receiving the $600 stimulus check, right? That should cover the extra expense for this year

Oh, and yes, obviously oil companies are going to post large profits when their primary input increases in value as they need to keep their margins alive. Funnily enough, Shell and E-M's profits were SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN EXPECTED because the price of oil is so high it's severely cutting into their refining profits.
good call. we all feel relieved now, knowing their profits aren't incredibly high, just very high.

so, basically, the stimulus makes everything better becuase instead of people making headway on paying off their debts or saving for the future or upgrading an inefficient household appliance, they instead get the priveledge of forwarding their tax rebate to exxon, shell, et al?

someone obviously isn't paying attention.

again, you have been quoted. so everyone can have a chuckle.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 09:13 AM
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Yea I wish we had e-85 in cali, but since we dont i am stuck paying over $4.XX for sh*tty 91. just the way things go i guess.
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