Gas Prices..

[firebird999]

Originally Posted by texan_idiot25

Is the trailer on the water? No? Well then there's your problem.

Do people, once they get the boat in the water, just going to randomly trailer it back up, and then tow it to the station (thus wasting more gas towing)?

i mean before it goes in. like drive it down on the trailer and make a stop. you can also pick up some extra gas in portable tanks.

Originally Posted by texan_idiot25

Use that pink thing between ya' ears boy!

your brain is actually grey. i know because i took mine out a long time ago.

[2wdpancar]

Originally Posted by firebird999

i mean before it goes in. like drive it down on the trailer and make a stop. you can also pick up some extra gas in portable tanks.


your brain is actually grey. i know because i took mine out a long time ago.

I think he means nose, and that joke sucked man, sorry but it did..

[texan_idiot25]

On the water, how hard is English to comprehend? Not only are you using it all day (thus eventually needing fuel), but many folks keep their boats in the water.

ON the water does not mean on a trailer.

kthxbai!

[Donziikid]

Originally Posted by firebird999

i mean before it goes in. like drive it down on the trailer and make a stop. you can also pick up some extra gas in portable tanks.

I burn through a 40gal. gas tank (the size of the tank in the Donzi) in about four to five hours of hard run time and that's a very generous amount of time. The largest "legal" portable-gastank they sell is the six gallon, so it takes seven (ok, 6.66666) of those alone to fill up the gas take in the Donzi. At $3.65 at the road-pump, that's $153.30; since 40gal. only gets me through five hours with about ten hours in the summer day, that would be roughly $306.60 per day of use for hard running.

And that, my friend, is why I only do short bursts of speed. We all learned when the gas per gallon jumped from $0.73 to $3.65, that it's best to run at about 3.1K RPM (30mph) instead of 5.7K RPM (75mph).

If you do the math, at $0.73/gal. it only cost us $30.66 to fill the Donzi instead of the now needed $153.30. Just another reason to love the 90's.

(My calculations are all done with the portable gas tanks instead of the 40gal tank. That's what we typically fill them up with instead of down by the water. DNR hates it, too.)

[xmodscarbon's_lost]

[****y rant]
It's alredy over $4.00Thank goodness i can't drive yet or i would be broke in to put half a tank of gas in my car!
It's just not right for them to do it.Maybe $3.00 a gallon but $4.00 freakin' bucks is a lot!They need to stop pay the head honcho a $40,000,000 bonus.I swear if the average person made that there whole life cars could fly!
[/****y rant]

[theoriganalRiD3R1967]

not sure if this is true or not but some1 told me when you tail a semi your car is 80% more fuel efficent, 80%!!!! but like i said, im not sure...

[snowboi1289]

Here,its gotten up to $4.30,but it went down last month to somewhere near $3.65 and up.I drive different cars every other week(mostly big trucks),and I never even have enough money to even pay to get it half a tank.I have one thing to say,"Chevy's,Dodges,and some Ford trucks are always bad on gas,even when you upgrade or do maintence alot".My Maxima is and will always be good on gas,for some reason.Its a v6,and I drive fast and hard,but still its good on gas.A full tank will get me a week to a month of driving(all depends on where I go,if I do just a couple jobs,then ir will last me a couple weeks).
Sorry for all those paying close to the hundereds on gas for a big truck.If you dont need to use a big truck,then get a gas friendly car,and use the big truck when needed the most.

That is true theoriganalRiD3R1967 (I seen it on mythbusters),but you will have to be like a inch or smaller away form the back of the truck,and its more like 10%-20% gas saving.If a semi truck stops,your screwed.

[imnotmikal]

There's a guy around here that always sells for 50 cent cheaper than the lowest in the area. So today, he sold at $2.96.
Yes, you read that right:
$2.96

Not a drop of gas left after 10AM.

Originally Posted by xmodscarbon's_lost

Thank goodness i can't drive yet or i would be broke in to put half a tank of gas in my car!

Don't worry. By the time you can drive, you'll be broke after 1/16th a tank.

[suicide_star]

07 silverado is costing me $88 to fill up, and thats not even with the fuel light on

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by Knvictd

There's a guy around here that always sells for 50 cent cheaper than the lowest in the area. So today, he sold at $2.96.
Yes, you read that right:
$2.96

Not a drop of gas left after 10AM.

Don't worry. By the time you can drive, you'll be broke after 1/16th a tank.

HOLY ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lmao. Honda's gonna make a killing. 50mpg before vtec or the thought of Hybrid. A real Honda Hybrid (Do they make hybrids?) would make a killing.. Then again, people have been hitting 160mpg in a Prius...

Gas isn't that bad, if people slowed down and took the speed limit as THE limit, they would be fine...

Originally Posted by xmodscarbon's_lost

[****y rant]
It's alredy over $4.00Thank goodness i can't drive yet or i would be broke in to put half a tank of gas in my car!
It's just not right for them to do it.Maybe $3.00 a gallon but $4.00 freakin' bucks is a lot!They need to stop pay the head honcho a $40,000,000 bonus.I swear if the average person made that there whole life cars could fly!
[/****y rant]

Spoiled American.
$4.00 is cheap compared to Europe. Europe's been sitting on $10 a gallon for years (However, parts of South America are at $0.12/gallon..)... It's not bad. People just need to learn to drive.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...S.-Is-So-Cheap
^^Ironicly, that was posted on a CRX Forum. CRX's get 35mpg+..

[civic_guy]

Seriously Sweed...you're JUST now noticing gas prices going up? wtf? lol. I've been noticing that for YEARS

As for driving habits, higher gas prices just means I'll have to make more money. I'd rather drive a fast car and spend money on gas than getting drunk or partying. I'll light myself on fire before I step foot in a hybrid pos.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by civic_guy

Seriously Sweed...you're JUST now noticing gas prices going up? wtf? lol. I've been noticing that for YEARS

As for driving habits, higher gas prices just means I'll have to make more money. I'd rather drive a fast car and spend money on gas than getting drunk or partying. I'll light myself on fire before I step foot in a hybrid pos.

I just started paying my own gas... like Monday..

What if someone lights you on fire?

[civic_guy]

Originally Posted by Sweed

I just started paying my own gas... like Monday..

What if someone lights you on fire?

Well if someone lite me on fire then I wouldn't be lighting myself on fire now would i.


hehehehehe


btw i just sold my Si tonight...bye bye good gas mileage!

[2wdpancar]

Originally Posted by civic_guy

Well if someone lite me on fire then I wouldn't be lighting myself on fire now would i.


hehehehehe


btw i just sold my Si tonight...bye bye good gas mileage!

Wait, weren't you getting a Supra or something?

Higher gas prices show how much the world sucks.

[meme405]

None of you have concerns until you drive a GMC 1500 5.0L V6, with a 400lb trailer thats been mis-firing three of its spark plugs for the last two months and has a leaking head gasket (not to menthion teh broken YOK (SP?) In the back and messed up right rear leaf spring.

I love how the kid with a 2cycle CRX started this thread...

EDIT: oh and BLT, no what shows the world sucks is people stockpilling rice. Whats funny is that The US used to throw corn into the ocean because they had too much food. And this is not only 15years ago...

[jimmythekid1]

Originally Posted by meme405

None of you have concerns until you drive a GMC 1500 5.0L V6, with a 400lb trailer thats been mis-firing three of its spark plugs for the last two months and has a leaking head gasket (not to menthion teh broken YOK (SP?) In the back and messed up right rear leaf spring.

I love how the kid with a 2cycle CRX started this thread...

EDIT: oh and BLT, no what shows the world sucks is people stockpilling rice. Whats funny is that The US used to throw corn into the ocean because they had too much food. And this is not only 15years ago...

First of all a 5.0 is a 305 V8, second a truck only running on about half of its cylinders would never beable to even move a trailer, third if you had a broken yoke your not going any where. And finally what are you really trying to say none of that makes any sense.

I also forgot to mention a CRX has a four stroke engine like all cars built after the 70's

[xmodificationer]

Originally Posted by jimmythekid1

First of all a 5.0 is a 305 V8, second a truck only running on about half of its cylinders would never beable to even move a trailer, third if you had a broken yoke your not going any where. And finally what are you really trying to say none of that makes any sense.

I also forgot to mention a CRX has a four stroke engine like all cars built after the 70's

that Is false my friend. My dads 2007 Ram 1500 Hemi has MDS (Multi Displacement System) which means under certain RPM's and speeds its only using 4 cylinders. Basically if you are just driving around on the highway or around town your only using 4 cylinders. My dad had to tow a trailer with it and he was still doing fine with just the 4 cylinders in use.

[jimmythekid1]

Originally Posted by xmodificationer

that Is false my friend. My dads 2007 Ram 1500 Hemi has MDS (Multi Displacement System) which means under certain RPM's and speeds its only using 4 cylinders. Basically if you are just driving around on the highway or around town your only using 4 cylinders. My dad had to tow a trailer with it and he was still doing fine with just the 4 cylinders in use.

here is were your wrong my friend, it does not run on four cylinder while under heavy load, like from a stop trying to get a 5000lb truck with a trailer moving. also any time you go past 60% throttle your run on 8 cylinders, due to the load on the engine. by the way an engineered multiple displacement is a lot different from a miss firing hole.

[ling427ttvette]

Originally Posted by jimmythekid1

here is were your wrong my friend, it does not run on four cylinder while under heavy load, like from a stop trying to get a 5000lb truck with a trailer moving. also any time you go past 60% throttle your run on 8 cylinders, due to the load on the engine. by the way an engineered multiple displacement is a lot different from a miss firing hole.

A truck can easily run on 4 cylinders while going down the highway at 65mph pulling a trailer.

Once the truck is up to speed and has already gained momentum that trailer isn't much of a burden, but of course it depends on the size of the trailer. But it can be done.

[jimmythekid1]

Originally Posted by ling427ttvette

A truck can easily run on 4 cylinders while going down the highway at 65mph pulling a trailer.

Once the truck is up to speed and has already gained momentum that trailer isn't much of a burden, but of course it depends on the size of the trailer. But it can be done.

exactly but we are talking about from a stop