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I laugh everytime I hear someone complain about the cost of gas...can you imagine what it would cost to drive your car on after shave or worse yet on chanel#5?
Gas is a cheap commodity...the only mistake that has been made over the years is not raising it three or four cents a year since day one.
Instead they raise it 40 and 50% at a time and expect no one to bitch.
[ February 14, 2003, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
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Education in most countries is free, yet it amazes me how many persons refuse to use simple common sense when they choose any trade in which to work in. Finding the cheaper way out always gets more expensive in the long run.
Rick, my car uses 114 octane at 4 bucks a gallon
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Well the reason I can complain is that I drive over 1000 miles a week to work. I miss my house that was closer to work, but alas my ex lives there. Over here in California, they banish you to Hemet, if you can't afford rent. Rick
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Did this lettering (they didn't want design work...) for the local recycling service who run all their recycling trucks on vegetable oil. This bug made the front page Monday. Too bad I couldn't sell them on my auto-wrap idea of a field of corn or soybeans growing halfway up the body panels all the way around.
quote: Bio-Beetle Mauians can rent this car that runs on reprocessed vegetable oil and has french-fry-scented exhaust story by staff writer MELISSA TANJI
KAHULUI -- You could call it the ultimate teen-ager’s show car: a slick green VW Beetle with a sunroof and an exhaust that smells like french fries.
Environmentalists and those in the business call it a shining example of an alternative to fossil fuels.
Maui Recycling Service unveiled the “Bio-Beetle” in January. The car, an unmodified 2000 Volkswagen Beetle with a diesel engine, uses biodiesel as fuel and is being rented out through Maui Car Rentals as the “world’s first dedicated biodiesel rental car.”
[ February 14, 2003, 05:30 PM: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
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Why dont people complain about other more expensive things in life?
Like:
Olive Oil: $200/gallon
Tickets to those sports GAMES with players making MILLIONS of dollars every year
Spontaneously combusting space shuttles
Wars with 3rd World countries that we could easily eliminate with one little nuke, or better yet eliminate trade with altogether and ignore the stupid ****ants - let them kill each other off.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Your right, I should blame my ex for running off, then I wouldnt have to drive so far! It's not the gas, it's me! Now if I were in Kauai again, it was 50 miles to one end, and 50 to the other, gas could be 10 bucks a gallon and it would be half what I pay now! Curse my bad attitude! Rick
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The more the price of gas goes up, the more I love my Volks Jetta tdi. 50 mpg in a car that can do 210 km/h ... It doesn't look like an econobox and it doesn't drive like an econobox, but it sure sips fuel like one ...
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Doug, what kind fuel consumption do those vehicles have, do you know?
Veggie oil at the grocery store isnt exactly cheaper than gas.
I like the concept of the hydrogen powered vehicles, unfortunately people think that an engine that only emmits steam is a good thing... yeah, I guess if you want to live in a rain forest, that's cool.. but there's a reason I moved to the desert - it's DRY!
At least Honda has developed a new engine that has ZERO emmissions using gasoline.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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The was an article on TV recently about a company that was recycling (as fuel) waste used cooking oil from restaurants. That stuff sells for peanuts .. (probably made from peanuts as well )
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Here is an IDEA!!!!!!!!!! PASS all cost to the consumer. ALL price increases,gas,lights,vinyl,paint,substrates,and even RAPID TAC. "it takes money to make money" "you always get what you pay for" "time is money" " it is only money" and oh yeah... "it is the SECOND mouse that gets the CHEESE"
Hope this helps
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Tim, I guess I get to work knowing that I can always go to the beach tomorrow. Sad truth is I don't get there enough, but do take in awesome views to & from work as well as from my yard where I spend a lot of my free time enjoying the weather & doing various improvement projects.
Mike, heres a few stats...
quote: A gas car that gets 25 miles per gallon (above the average for a typical gas car) costs 8 cents per mile to drive at $1.99/gallon fuel cost (current cost of regular unleaded gasoline on Maui - January 2003). A diesel car that gets 40 miles per gallon (typical for a diesel) costs 5.8 cents per mile to drive, at $2.33/gallon (cost of biodiesel at Pacific Biodiesel, road tax included). Diesel engines are more efficient than gas motors, so you will almost certainly save money on transportation if you switch from a gas vehicle to a biodiesel vehicle
And the biodiesel from Pacific Biodiesel is from recycled oil from restaurants (like Mike's story)
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