Gas prices

[uclabiker06]

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000021194

[sbrguy]

they are talking about bicycles, and then vespas and such, but motocycles will soon follow

[redxblack]

Gas is twelve cents a gallon in Caracas. It might be worth it to road trip on down.

[uclabiker06]

I'm so down.  

[geoffduc]

Come on over to the UK guys... [moto]

At just over $2 a LITRE...

Reality really kicks in...

[Kopfjager]

Come on over to the UK guys... [moto]

At just over $2 a LITRE...

Reality really kicks in...

Yep, folks over here are clueless. 

[ungeheuer]

... and about US$1.60 per litre in Australia. 

[geoffduc]

We're all getting ripped off by our short and curlies...

And then hung out to dry...

While the governments and oil company's get ever more richer...

[red baron]

We're all getting ripped off by our short and curlies...

And then hung out to dry...

While the governments and oil company's get ever more richer...

Tru dat


IBTL

[Slide Panda]

they are talking about bicycles, and then vespas and such, but motocycles will soon follow

I fellow I knew at a local moto shop that sold scooters too said they saw a huge surge in 50cc sales in '08. Can't say I wouldn't expect another rise in Scoot sales.

[Bladecutter]

The real issue is that people who are already on a very tight income can't afford to buy a cheap bike or scooter because they just don't have the funds to spare, so their 15 mpg Explorer keeps getting filled up, while they try to feed a family of 6 on Ramen noodles.

They can't even sell their Explorer for much, because everyone else is trying to get cars with better gas mileage, which pushes their (economic cars) values higher than they can trade across for. But if you need a winter beater 4WD truck, now's the time to buy.

BC.

[sbrguy]

to those that have really bad fuel mileage cars well that is basically too bad, it was their choice they chose a bad gas guzzler now they have to live with it, the same attitutde that says "i can buy a gas guzzling 500 hp car because i want to and because i can becuase its what i want and my right to choose " is the same thing that leads people to get an suv that have no reason to get them (couldn't get a more fuel efficient wagon or mini van bc they are not "cool")  when they could have gotten a more fuel efficient car, but choose the cool factor instead but don't realize that gas may go up, too bad, that is the price of "cool" now they can live with it, i have no sympathy and don't want to hear their whining.

gas prices are always going to go up, that's life. welcome to reality.  and its not because of "supply and demand" as the refinerys are operating at lower capacity than normal, its the refineries that want to make more money by purposefully limiting supply, its not a limited supply and thus higher price because there is not enough oil, its an artifical supply shortage by someone simply turning off the spigot, not becuase thsere is not enough coming out of the spigot because the spigot is fully open.

good side of high prices is that in Los angeles in 08 there was noticiably less traffic all the time especially weekends so it was great driving around there.

[bdub]

I get twelve mpg in my 1989 F150. Cost 85+$$ to fill up. I'm happy. It runs, no taxes/no issues

[redxblack]

my Subaru Forester kept breaking and was drinking too much gas (and oil - another story). It would have cost $3k to fix it (a 1999 model w/ 188k mi). Instead I got a more fuel efficient car that I like better and am saving well over $1k/yr in gas. I'm REALLY fortunate that I had some money saved for a rainy day. Had this been 10 years ago, I couldn't have just swapped my car.

[duccarlos]

Toureg TDI is probably in my future. It gets better fuel mileage than my minivan.