Please read! Possible solution to raising gas prices

[dave b]

I saw $2.67 for premium in Beverly Hills today, but that was less than 20 feet from Ferrari of Beverly Hills.

I try not to sweat gas prices too much, at least not enough to inconvenience myself. For me, it means filling up costs $34 (15 gallons @ 2.30 per) instead of $27. Do that 2.5 times a month and the increase runs me an extra $18 a month until the prices fall back down to around $1.75 a gallon. Definately not enough to make me cause myself any trouble. I just try to stay out of trouble with my woman, thus saving even more in roses and sorry gifts.

Now, Directtv trying to bang me out of another 10% will get me PO'd!

Besides, work back inflation a few years and you'll see that unlike everything else in the $$$ world, gas has actually not risen enough.

Or, to really protect yourself, just buy some gas stock. Take advantage of their profits. Do the same for everything that has prices that you complain about and you'll retire a happy man.

[MO525]

i allways wanted to get a early bug or karman and install a bad ass rotary motor, mazda trix or racing beat sells a kit to connect a 12a or 13b rotary to a vw transaxle, i think a hot street port side draft webered 13b would be cool, about 175 - 200 hp. or if you wanna race, a peripheral port beast, nothing like 315 hp from a 80 cid normally asperated motor, not very streetable, idles around 3500 and don't make power till around 7000, but from there till 11k look out

You guys can read my mind!
My first love is air-cooled VW's.
I attached a link to some pics of it.
I have a link on that page to pics of my next project: a Manx-Style Buggy.
It looks good parked next to the 525i....both products of the Mother Land.

HERE'S THE LINK, folks:

www.home.earthlink.net/~whwklw/

GREAT hearing positive notes on our beloved air-cools.
Thanks folks.

[AZ_Jason_S]

You guys can read my mind!
My first love is air-cooled VW's.
I attached a link to some pics of it.
I have a link on that page to pics of my next project: a Manx-Style Buggy.
It looks good parked next to the 525i....both products of the Mother Land.

www.earthlink.net/~whwklw/

GREAT hearing positive notes on our beloved air-cools.
Thanks folks.

Tried your link and couldn't get to it... But now I have found a new respect for you! My very first car was a bug, it sort of sold me on German cars. Right now I have 2 Porsche 914's. One I am building to sell, when its done, the other will be sort of a street/race car... My girlfriend wants a buggy so there may be one of those in my future, right now my time and resources are tied up...

[MO525]

Tried your link and couldn't get to it... But now I have found a new respect for you! My very first car was a bug, it sort of sold me on German cars. Right now I have 2 Porsche 914's. One I am building to sell, when its done, the other will be sort of a street/race car... My girlfriend wants a buggy so there may be one of those in my future, right now my time and resources are tied up...

Here is the correct link to my '66 Beetle and '65 Buggy:

www.home.earthlink.net/~whwklw/

[dan0235]

i know this thread finished over 2 yrs ago but now us brits are paying approx £5 a gall ($9.25), also BP (british petroleum) are announcing profits of millions plus, its a complete rip off. Its true we pay the most out of any european country in tax on fuel, where does it go????????
we tried boycoting fuel a few yrs ago, every one played along, we had drivers refusing to deliver, car sharing, fuel sharing and even 'drive slow' during rush hr, no-one complained.
this went on for about a week, fuel prices went down (except for some greedy gas station owners who jumped on the 'supply and demand' bandwagon, and pushed their prices up)
Fuel prices have crept up again, the government blame it on the price of a barrel of oil, from our 'friends' in the middle east (easy to blame someone 1000 miles away, also to stir up hatred!!)
just out of interest, How much is it a gallon everywhere else in the world?
lets get this debate up and running again

[fujioko]

My '92 FXi got 50 to 53 MPG. I Put a trailer hitch on it to tow my 14 foot boat. Drove it for 230K then it fell apart. Engine still ran! Of course this is a BMW forum..

[fujioko]

The Metro also came with cup holders......

[Traian]

I'll bite. I think oil-rich countries in the the Middle East have played their cards very well, especially the Saudis. It's not their doing that's causing high prices, and they also haven't reduced supply or done something funny like that to increase prices even further. In fact, they've promised to increase supply, not enough to ruin a good thing I suppose, but enough that it seems, at least to me, completely unreasonable to blame OPEC and other producers for high gas prices. Okay rant over.

Also, I enjoy that big flat useless wood console more than a cup holder Looks cool.

[ThoreauHD]

E85 ethanol would be the best way to give the market competition. To retrofit your car, it's about 400 bucks. On new cars it's 100 bucks. The price per gallon is 2.50 in current quantities, which used to be too much. Now it's looking like quite the bargain. The price will probably drop once folks start using ethanol. The name of the car type is called a "flex-fuel" car. We would be able to supply the 15% of gas needed for the fuel domestically. The ethanol we can get from north American farmers and also south american sugar cane growers(and the sugar cane islands).

Also, we won't be giving money to wahhabi muslems bent on killing or enslaving non-muslms(dhimmis- that's you Wally!). Those folks are also called Saudi's and Iranians, among others.

So, the retrofit is just a new fuel line with an adapter thingy. The station doesn't need to change anything to pump it. They just need to have demand for it.

And you will be using sugar cane, corn, biomass produced ethanol. Also, you get better miles per gallon with the stuff. Some say 15% better. It also burns cleaner than petrol only fuel. I'm sure that it's not all roses, but it seems the best step to take next for the civilized world. There may be some timing and maintenance issues, due to the rate of combustion, but I don't know. All I know is that folks are using it elsewhere with fewer resources to produce ethanol than we have.

It's an intermediary step, but it's a step that'll make us self-sufficient. With this method we would be able to have a renewable energy source for the next 5 centuries. I doubt we'll need it that long, but it's there.

[Incantation]

this is hillarious