Gas prices sux
08-23-2003, 12:44 PM
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You should always let the car go until the fuel light, and then fill it up to the top for two reasons:
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
08-23-2003, 09:49 PM
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Originally posted by 1996_SE
You should always let the car go until the fuel light, and then fill it up to the top for two reasons:
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
You should always let the car go until the fuel light, and then fill it up to the top for two reasons:
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
08-23-2003, 11:43 PM
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I have always been told not go go below a 1/4, but sometimes (well, many times) my budget doesnt permit me filling up every time I get low on gas, so my car often see's the gas light.
08-24-2003, 10:34 PM
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Originally posted by waveridr85
i just got myself some 94 for 2.01 on long island
i just got myself some 94 for 2.01 on long island
94? damn...in california you cant even get 93, usually 91 is what all the stations have, and its a lot more than what everyone else is paying for better dang gas!
08-25-2003, 02:12 PM
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08-25-2003, 04:22 PM
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Originally posted by 1996_SE
You should always let the car go until the fuel light, and then fill it up to the top for two reasons:
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
You should always let the car go until the fuel light, and then fill it up to the top for two reasons:
1. You need to get rid of contaminants that settle at the bottom of your gas tank. If you don't go down to the bottom, they will build up!
2. To avoid getting condensation in your gas tank (bad) you need to fill up to the top and remove any condensation that's lying there (condensation=non-combustable=bad)
This is what I have been told.
08-25-2003, 07:52 PM
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Originally posted by kenju4u
I just paid $0.90 for 93 premium. I bought it online.
http://www.cheapgas.com
I just paid $0.90 for 93 premium. I bought it online.
http://www.cheapgas.com
but isnt it amazingly hard to ship gas? its heavy and explosive... lol weird
08-25-2003, 10:24 PM
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Originally posted by kenju4u
I just paid $0.90 for 93 premium. I bought it online.
http://www.cheapgas.com
I just paid $0.90 for 93 premium. I bought it online.
http://www.cheapgas.com
08-25-2003, 10:36 PM
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just finish watching a dateline special on the rising price of gas, they were talkin about alternative to regular crude oil, one alt was natural gas but just like crude oil that will run out too and another option was hydrogen. they were saying how one day our car mite depend on plants as a source of fuel.
haha that be the day when u fill up ur car with grass for a long road trip.
haha that be the day when u fill up ur car with grass for a long road trip.
08-26-2003, 08:03 AM
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Reasons for high gas prices:
1) OPEC as cut back on their quota therefore making for a slight shortage
2) Pipeline strike in South America
3) Arizona pipeline failure
4) Northeast blackout caused some refinerys to shutdown for a while
5) Iraq's oil production is taking longer to get back online
I think premium is going for around $2.05 in Kansas City right now. An increase of $.30-.50 isn't really hurting me because my wife and I only drive about 300 miles a week combined. Honestly, I hope gas prices stay high because maybe it will force people to realize just how wasteful they are buying gas guzzlers and how rediculious it really is to drive a 4WD 5000lb SUV. We Americans have had it easy for way too long in terms of cheap gas. Everyone else in this world pays far more for gas ($6+ a gallon), so why should we pay so little? We consume 50% of the worlds energy yet we are a very small country. I hope things will change.
Dave
1) OPEC as cut back on their quota therefore making for a slight shortage
2) Pipeline strike in South America
3) Arizona pipeline failure
4) Northeast blackout caused some refinerys to shutdown for a while
5) Iraq's oil production is taking longer to get back online
I think premium is going for around $2.05 in Kansas City right now. An increase of $.30-.50 isn't really hurting me because my wife and I only drive about 300 miles a week combined. Honestly, I hope gas prices stay high because maybe it will force people to realize just how wasteful they are buying gas guzzlers and how rediculious it really is to drive a 4WD 5000lb SUV. We Americans have had it easy for way too long in terms of cheap gas. Everyone else in this world pays far more for gas ($6+ a gallon), so why should we pay so little? We consume 50% of the worlds energy yet we are a very small country. I hope things will change.
Dave
08-26-2003, 09:40 AM
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08-26-2003, 10:44 AM
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$2.34 this morning for 91 oct.
What sucks about high gas prices is that it doesn't really hurt the people driving those huge V12 cars, or 5k lb trucks, (they already have money) It hurts the poor people who can only drive small/old v4's. Nothing new here.
What sucks about high gas prices is that it doesn't really hurt the people driving those huge V12 cars, or 5k lb trucks, (they already have money) It hurts the poor people who can only drive small/old v4's. Nothing new here.
09-03-2003, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave B
Honestly, I hope gas prices stay high because maybe it will force people to realize just how wasteful they are buying gas guzzlers and how rediculious it really is to drive a 4WD 5000lb SUV. We Americans have had it easy for way too long in terms of cheap gas. Everyone else in this world pays far more for gas ($6+ a gallon), so why should we pay so little? We consume 50% of the worlds energy yet we are a very small country. I hope things will change.
Dave
Dave
Keep preachin' 
Sorry, I just can't get excited over gas prices at a "whopping" $2.xx/gal (1.92 for 93 here locally) when I was paying the equivalent of $4.50/gal in FINLAND for the cheap stuff. Premium was up around $5.00/gal. Fortunately it was on business, so I was expensing it, but that's why everybody drives 4-bangers over there, and most of Europe for that matter. You just don't see many big "SUVs" and ridiculous piles of single-digit mpg garbage like the H2 do not exist.
If the US was smart, they would tax the crap out of gas like pretty much all of Europe does to encourage economical vehicles and more thrifty energy use. But that will never happen in the US because Detroit has some powerful lobbyists and they would pretty much go out of business because most of what they sell are trucks.
Gas prices are high!! YIPPPPEEEEEE
I averaged 29.5 mpg over a 800 mile trip the other weekend.
09-04-2003, 03:31 PM
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anyone know what gas prices are like in japan? I know parking is pretty much non-existent, and the city is crowded, but they are masters of drifting and have some insane super cars (our car is from there 
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