Better retire that SUV...

[{OF}Vmax]

ford has a hybrid out now i think. i think the fouces and escape come as hybrids.

if gas dose go up the $3 a gallon my wife will be happy, because it will cost her more to drive to work then to just take a $5.50 an hour job in town and walk to work. also it looks like i will be spending about $70 to fill up my truck but that is only two times a month so that won't be too bad.

[{OF}Justafleshwound]

It isn't just the fuel going up Vmax... everything and anything that is transported will go up in price. It will be more than just the hit of the price of gas on your pocketbook.

[{OF}Blong]

Originally Posted by LoPo

What's funny, is that many SUV's get the same gas mileage as many cars out there. My car gets on avg 15MPG... oh well.deal with it. If you own an SUV you understand the financial burden.

i say you need a new car my car gets 30mpg .

[LoPo]

Originally Posted by {OF}Blong

i say you need a new car my car gets 30mpg .

eerrumm, what do you drive?

[Smiley]

Clydefrog was getting 28-30 mpg in the new Z06 he was testing for GM

In 1973 the oil embargo caused a shortage of fuel, so not only did the cost of fuel skyrocket but you could only get 10 gallons at a time - if the station even had fuel. So it was not just the cost of fuel that killed many of the larger engined vehicle but the fact you could not get gas at all. The muscle cars went byebye Everything that was transported by truck went up also. JAFW has it right, inflation will jump up the cost of everything.

I sold my '69 Chevelle SS 396 and bought a diesel Rabbit instead. I went from 10 to 53 mpg. But today I will just pay the fuel cost and continue driving my 9 mpg F350. I go thru 4 fufillups per month on average. Still cheaper than when I lived 40 minutes from work and put 8 fillups per month in that truck.

When the high powered cars out there start selling for cheap because of fuel cost I intend to get something sweet as a toy, like BadDawg's S10

[{OF}Barney_B]

Insurance companies killed the muscle car. Limiting emissions didn't help either.

[{OF}Blong]

Originally Posted by LoPo

eerrumm, what do you drive?

Ford Taurus 1997 with 124,000 miles. my oldsmobille silhouette gets avg of 25mpg with 32,000 miles on that. so even my minivan gets better gas mileage than your car .

[{OF}Flying_Dutchman]

Yeah, I remember the 70's crisis. Was still in Holland then. Government actually instituted "no car Sundays" for quite a while. So on Sundays, nobody was allowed to drive but public transportation and taxis in an effort to save gas. I remember going to visit somebody in a taxi with my folks and how eerie MT the roads were. My dad was always a diesel car kind of guy (drove a second hand Mercedes 200D) so we had no trouble getting fuel (especially since we had our own tank of agricultural diesel for our equipment..... )

[{OF}Malicious Assault]

Well, we have a little way's to go before we catch up with some countries gas prices. It was $8 a gal US in Belize when I was there. WHen the price gets up there people will slow down on use and they will come down again. The oil companies will not make any changes until we are almost out. Alternative fuels may be the way to go, but that is still a ways down the road. The oil companies control the market and what goes on the market and until they dont have a choise anymore we will just keep paying more. I like my 05 trailblazer and will keep driving it and pay the price

[{OF}BadDaWg]