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ORIGINAL: bearcatfans

Just to be the counter-point here.......All I hear everyday at work, the grocery, the radio, the stupid Liberal media that has led the "Consumer Panic Campaign of '08" and everywhere else is how the world is coming to an end because we all have to pay more for gas.  This all seems crazy to me. 

If an SUV cost $45-50 to fill up two years ago and now costs $75-80 to fill up now, that comes to approx $1300 a year more which comes to an extra $25-30 per week!  We smoke cigarettes at $5 a pack and talk on luxury-item cell phones for $50+ a month and have digital TV signals costing $75-100 a month but no one says a darn thing about any of that - why is the cost of fuel so special?  I guess we are lucky considering the fuel prices around the world. 

To blame the president who would like to drill and produce more crude here and cannot does not make alot of sense.  (The area of Alaska that would be "disturbed" by drilling there is the same size area as a postage stamp sitting in the corner of a football field endzone)  As long as we keep buying oil from people who hate us and want to kill us, we will have problems with prices.   Furthermore, even if we do produce it here, who wants the government 'regulating' what the free enterprise companies can charge for it? Not me.  I don't want to live in that kind of country. 

The market should determine what a gallon of gas will fetch, so as long as we need it to fuel our love of driving, IT IS WHAT IS IS.  By the way, what should gas cost and why? Anyone.....anyone.......anyone.  If I hear one more person here in my town cry about losing their home, job, cars, pets because their fuel costs are $25-30 more per week, I will vomit!!

93 octane forever.

Aaron
2003 SE7 Discovery

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ORIGINAL: Spike555


I dont know about the rest of the country, but Chrysler is offering $2.99 a gallon for the next 3 years if you buy a new car or trk. Are they desperate to sell cars or what?

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ORIGINAL: riden686

you guys are lucky, i cant find 93 oct anywhere in town, and i pay 4.01 plus for my 91 and usually an octane booster on tpo of that. I'm hopeing my new O2 sensors will help my mpg a little.

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ORIGINAL: Mark G

I met a guy the other day (at Subway) who had driven down from the Twin Cities on 'grease', which is about 5hrs away from me. He converted his Jetta TDI over to dual-fuel (diesel/oil) so he was running on straight waste french fry vegitable oil. I too have a Jetta TDI, that's how we got talking about it, but it was the first time I'd see the conversion first hand and talked to someone who had been doing it for a couple years. He said he doesn't have any problem finding the grease (plus he gets 42-50mpg so doesn't need that much). It's too bad there weren't more LR TDi's shipped to this country. They'd be really 'hot' now. I'm just curious how many miles/gal Disco TDI's get? I know guys with full-sized Chevy Diesel Tks that get 22-25mpg.

Mark G