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Message started by pgambr on 04/13/14 at 23:01:59

Title: Gas
Post by pgambr on 04/13/14 at 23:01:59

Gas is getting expensive again. $3.50 a gallon just down the road from where I live. I'm waiting for the day when $5 a gallon is just how it is. :-?

Title: Re: Gas
Post by Serowbot on 04/13/14 at 23:32:48

I heard it's goin' cheaper...
You must be watchin' the wrong TV show...
;D...

I think they should go ahead and raise the price of gas to $5.00 pg,.. and put that money to fixin' roads and infrastructure... then, we can put the correct psi in our tires and save our suspension parts...
Estimates here in Tuscon are, bad roads are costing up to $750 a year in repairs...
My car sounds a coffee can full of marbles rollin' down a giant cheese grater...
I don't choose my route for speed or shortest distance anymore... I choose the route that won't loosen another filling... (I even pick lanes that way)...

We don't need cheaper gas... we need better roads, so we don't need 4x4's on the pavement...

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgghh!.... ;D....

Title: Re: Gas
Post by gizzo on 04/13/14 at 23:32:55

Boo Hoo :'( . I just filled my Enfield GT at 1.60/litre. I think your price works out at about 91c/litre. Lucky it's giving me 80MPG.

Title: Re: Gas
Post by jcstokes on 04/14/14 at 03:01:50

You don't know how lucky you are pgambr. I would think a US gallon would workout at about US$8.52 here.

Title: Re: Gas
Post by pgambr on 04/14/14 at 05:35:59

Quote:

I think they should go ahead and raise the price of gas to $5.00 pg,.. and put that money to fixin' roads and infrastructure... then, we can put the correct psi in our tires and save our suspension parts...

That was a significant factor in my decision making process when I bought my KLR last year. People ask me do you go off roading a lot, and I say something like it is not a lot of fun going for a long ride on these roads. The riding position is a lot easier on the back as well.

To the gents over seas; apologies, I do not envy you when you pull up to the pump.

Title: Re: Gas
Post by gizzo on 04/14/14 at 05:39:12

It's ok, we don't blame you ;).
On the other side of the coin, the roads in Australia are in pretty good shape overall, and when I visit NZ I am in awe of the road condition. Those guys really seem to know how to make a road.

Title: Re: Gas
Post by Dave on 04/14/14 at 07:23:41

I think the ships used so much fuel running around looking for that missing plane.......there is a fuel shortage!

Title: Re: Gas
Post by shorty on 04/14/14 at 10:57:21

fuel oil prices should reflect barrel prices... we are getting screwed...
since when does raising the price help consumers, give me a break

Title: Re: Gas
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 04/14/14 at 11:54:53

The futures market sets the pump price. There are more "paper" barrels of oil traded daily than real ones.,.The investors who look at the troubles the Dollar has ( note the DOW drop & the production numbers the big corps are putting out, FAR below projections) & our debts & the foreign policies, etc & BET that oil will cost More Dollars "tomorrow" than "Yesterday" creates upward pressures on the oil price.