For my work I drive over 130 miles a day, 6 days a week but I don't always need the truck. So today when oil jumped to $133 a barrel and rumors ""Since it was spoken, so it will be" of $200 a barrel oil making gas $7 and Diesel $7.80 a gallon by next year. It got me wondering when it would pay for me to buy a little gas miser, park it in the big city and just drive my truck back and forth from it and here's what I came up with. (Due to driving at night out here in the country. Deer, Cows and Horses mandate me driving a large vehicle for the sake of my life.)

33 gallons of Diesel at $7.80 Gallon = $257 a week- $1028 a month

Since I figure I can find a little car that will double the MPG of my truck with no problem I then came up with this.

16.5 Gallons of gas at $7 a Gallon = $115.5 a week - $462 a month for fuel.

To recap,
Truck $1028 a month
Itty Bitty car $462 a month


Not a pretty sight huh?

Gee, over $560 difference. That would make a nice car payment until paid off and from then on you could pocket the difference.

Spend the extra money on a roll cage, armor bumper, armored windshield, 4 point harness and a good helmet. Now you are reasonably protected while in the small car

Red

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yeah, there's gonna come a point where we make drastic changes in our driving habits and become more European-oriented.......Squish's example is a good one.

my wife is another example....her mom just bought a new corolla and since her mom only works 5ish miles from home, she uses wifey's Xterra during the week and wifey uses mom's corolla for her 60 mile daily round trip to work

we don't live too far from my mother-in-law (unfortunately at times) so it's a feasible switch for us to do during the week, but it's an example of the changes we have to make, I haven't calculated it but we've seen a large decrease in out gas expenses, damned X gets awful mileage

pretty soon I will start using my brother's R6 since he hardly uses her since his little crash......all this will eventually drive demand down and prices should stablilize, I don't think it's a bubble, that means prices/costs/profits will come tumbling down at some point, I don't think they'll come down drastically as opposed to level off or decrease slightly

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"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush, Feb. 28, 2008

Gas prices hit $3.83 as holiday nears - Oil & energy - MSNBC.com The sad thing is I just filled up and it cost me $82 so I'm already spending over $160 a week or $650 a month for fuel not including what the Queen spends.

I'm starting to hope we are in a recession. If we are, people will stop buying so much Chinese crap which in turn will slow their production, which will reduce their consumption, thus lowering oil prices. Or we could just round up the speculators and lock them up because this sure reminds me of Enron with their rolling blackouts and rising energy prices.........................

No way man, China's demand is not going to decrease into the forseeable future. Their consumption of EVERYTHING has increased and will continue to do so. It would take a major major recession (I almost typed depression) for our demand for China-produced goods to decrease significantly enough for their consumption to change.........

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"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush, Feb. 28, 2008

SD, I would have to agree. IMHO, the only way control gas/fuel prices is for us to get off of our lazy duffs and develop REALISTIC alternative fuels. Something that we can produce here. I still believe that we are not trying hard enough to do it.

yeah, alternative fuels is going to be a long arduous process........oil companies have plenty of $$ to develop them but no real incentive except from a goodwill, earth-friendly, we'll-make-commercials-about-alternative-fuel-development-but-do-very-little standpoint .......... people/companies who really want to develop alternative fuels have little money (relatively speaking), will not see profits for a long time, and need to get subsidized to continue to work toward them.

that's why it's important to see car manufacturers working toward electric, hydrogen, and other sources, at least they have the resources to throw at the projects

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"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush, Feb. 28, 2008

Truer words were never spoken............ If I was making the kind of money they do, I'd be tempted to ride it for all it's worth too....LOL

let's not forget just HOW much money they have. so much so they are or have been deep in congressmen's pockets. oil companies probably have a football roster's worth of lobbyists per congressman. and i'm sure they've in the past coerced congressmen to shoot down any funding for alternative fuel development, hindering its progress. let's just hope things have changed.

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VIDS!!! http://vimeo.com/groups/h00ligan/videos

[quote=h00ligan; let's just hope things have changed.[/quote]

H00ligan... as I recall the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results this time.

There will always be lobbist, elected officials will go on "the take" and we will get the shaft.

I sure wish we could break this circle.

Red

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