This is 100% right. I'm getting in while I can as well

 

It's also about where you are in life, too. I suspect you and I are in a more advanced phase of life than a lot of the younglings around here. We can afford to choose comfort and style over economy. But it's clear to me from reading this forum that many young men here are struggling young college students or working guys for whom a $20 increase in the cost of a tank of gas is a major discomfort.

To be honest, I couldn't dream of driving a nice car like the B5 until I was over 30, and I don't know how some of these guys can afford it.

To be sure, the rising gas prices are giving nearly everyone pause for thought about what kind of vehicle they drive. Or, at least how much they drive.

Myself, I'd like it if Santa would drop one of those Tesla electric cars into my stocking.

 

if you're bitch enough...
http://www.chevrolet.com/volt/?seo=g...erm=chevy_volt

 

No thanks, wake me up when Audi makes an electric car.

 

meh to electric car, by any brand...

 

I work for an Oil & Gas company, you can basically blame the enviromentalists for obstructing drilling here int he states. I got this in an email yesterday:

OIL - you better sit down.

Here's an interesting read, important and verifiable information :

About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together." Please read below.

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only
scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a
revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota , western South Dakota, andextreme eastern Montana.

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe
Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign
oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion
barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel,
we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5..3 trillion.

"When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see
their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.." says Terry Johnson, the Montana
Legislature's financial analyst.

"This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found
in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a
formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the
'Bakken.' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and
into Canada .. For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead
end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells
decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up
the Bakken's massive reserves.... and we now have access of up to 500
billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels
will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years
straight. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one
should - because it's from 2006!

U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World

Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the
largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION
barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In
three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this
motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders,
than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

- 22-times as much oil as Iran

- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

- and it's all right here in the Western United States .

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the
environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America
become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of
people dictate our lives and our economy.....WHY?

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in
this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION
barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in
the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think
again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think OPEC just
might be funding the environmentalists?

Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:

Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you
should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices - by
doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.

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Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you
sent this to every one in your address book.

By the way...this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!

GOOGLE it, or follow this link. It will blow your mind.

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 <http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911>
<http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 <http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911> >

 

I'm also in Oil & Gas, the government does nothing but stand in the way of the American people to develop the resources that THEY own. The US has to potential to dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil however we choose to still send most of our money overseas to people who can't stand us.

 

Premium.

There are threads on which octane to use, but the main consensus is what you gain in $0.10 you'll lose in mpg/performance.

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Bicycles don't use gas...

 

avg of $1.30/Lfor 91 Octane, Toronto, Ontario.

 

Lol at you posting a chain email as a verifiable and reliable source of information, especially from someone who "works in the industry."

I was in the process of typing up a ripping reply to what you posted from information I quickly found on google, but was able to find a snopes article about this "news" that will save me the headache.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bakken.asp

You're due to revise this statement, and in the future, I would suggest fact checking your sources instead of wallowing in the abundance of misinformation, lies, & FUD that is largely proliferated for political purposes.