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coach3rd 04-20-2006 12:01 AM

Anybody gonna change plans because of the gas prices? I just drove 2000 miles last week and averaged $70 to $80 per fill up! Gas companies are making a killing off us right now....

DennisAJC 04-20-2006 12:16 AM

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Originally posted by coach3rd:
Anybody gonna change plans because of the gas prices? I just drove 2000 miles last week and averaged $70 to $80 per fill up! Gas companies are making a killing off us right now....

I've been paying nearly $100US ($130CAN) since last year.

What's the problem?

Screeper 04-20-2006 12:29 AM

When I am at the gas station and get the typical "Ill bet that gas is getting expensive" My favorite response has been "I hope it gets up to 5 dollars a gallon to get some of these ass**** drivers off the road. I'll pay just for the convienance factor". You should see the look on their faces. Ive gotten to use it twice now.

HummBob 04-20-2006 12:34 AM

Dennis, $1.10 L here, how bout B.C.?

DennisAJC 04-20-2006 01:02 AM

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Originally posted by HummBob:
Dennis, $1.10 L here, how bout B.C.?

$1.26 But that's for the 94 Premium Octane.

And worth every penny.

MarineHawk 04-20-2006 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by Screeper:
When I am at the gas station and get the typical "Ill bet that gas is getting expensive" My favorite response has been "I hope it gets up to 5 dollars a gallon to get some of these ass**** drivers off the road. I'll pay just for the convienance factor". You should see the look on their faces. Ive gotten to use it twice now.


hmrlvr 04-20-2006 01:30 AM

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"I hope it gets up to 5 dollars a gallon to get some of these ass**** drivers off the road. I'll pay just for the convienance factor".
Love it!!!

DDWH 04-20-2006 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by Screeper:
When I am at the gas station and get the typical "Ill bet that gas is getting expensive" My favorite response has been "I hope it gets up to 5 dollars a gallon to get some of these ass**** drivers off the road. I'll pay just for the convienance factor". You should see the look on their faces. Ive gotten to use it twice now.

Perfect!

twenty2 04-20-2006 02:19 AM

gosh.. I have no idea what my neighbor pays? I know when I run low on gas, I goto his house with a hose and fill up my tank. I only do it at night. Give it a try. Make sure it's someone you don't like...

Big Z 04-20-2006 03:03 AM

Just put 30 gal in the boat for $86 bucks, (holds 70)) and burned 1/2 of it today. Burned another 1/2 tank in the 2, (towed a Heavier boat this time) for the 80 mile round trip (test loop!, worm Drowning party) .

What Am I Gonna Do?---Same f-ing thing tomorrow!

Except!, H2 will not yank the boat anymore!--Gas guzzlin, small blocked, underpowered, Heavy, good looking, constantly shifting, good looking, Very stinky brakes (little fade) @ the bottom ! , damn fine looking outfit! But Sadly, Boat is to much of a Bully for the 2. Guess it's time to trade it in!--SUT for looks!, or Alfa for work!--might be a Dilema! --since I already have a good tow rig!

devilsfan 04-20-2006 11:37 AM

No big change of plans here. We were thinking of driving down to Corpus for a weekend, but the heat is more of a deterrent than the gas!

Actually, I've been driving my H2 MORE since the gas prices went up. Was driving the Slade for daily errands (it gets about 17 MPG), but now that the prices are up, I want to stick it in everyone's face that I drive a guzzler.

Stacy

Fastest H-Town Realtor 04-20-2006 11:55 AM

Although the gallon price is a factor, my problem isn't the dollar per gallon. Its the fill up every other day thing that makes it fun. 52K miles on a '05 is allota driving.

BUT:

Say it with me: "Self employed". Translated,that means that whatever I burn in fuel is a tax write off....so....might as well do it in a vehicle I love.

Isn't a hybrid something that makes my grass stronger against grub worms?

Aubs 04-20-2006 12:04 PM

Well, I'm moving out west (not because of gas prices ) where biodiesel is pretty common, so I might think about getting an H1 diesel, and even though the MPG is less, B50 is $2.15 in Denver... I can't do anything to change what I pay with a gas engine, but diesel affords some more options...

MovinH2 04-20-2006 08:12 PM

2.89 here and going up. Not going to change my habit's at all. You only live once.

RIC-H0 04-20-2006 08:30 PM

Do what I did!
Get yourself a Harley!
50mpg and you get almost as many thumbs up from kids!

Ric-H0

hmrlvr 04-20-2006 09:13 PM

Just paid $3.19 for low grade today, It sucks, but, oh well. Can't leave the HUMMER home, my wife will just take it.

coach3rd 04-20-2006 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by RIC-H0:
Do what I did!
Get yourself a Harley!
50mpg and you get almost as many thumbs up from kids!

Ric-H0

I actually thought about a Harley. I have a local friend here that builds bikes for a living and he offered to build me one....Just might have to!!

JohnB.GWU. 04-21-2006 12:51 AM

drive the s55...it gets around 22 on the highway when i keep it at 80

in the low teens @ anything over 110 though

KenP 04-21-2006 05:05 AM

Makes no difference here. Last year driving to and from Moab we had to use Premium. That was around $3.30 a gallon then.

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by KenP:
Last year driving to and from Moab we had to use Premium.

Who, you and the mouse in your pocket?

2-H2's 04-21-2006 12:17 PM

What & walk...or get caught in one of those little cars??? I don't think so.

Just jack your prices up to coincide with the gas prices & keep on gettin' it. If everyone's prices top out with the gas figures it a wash.

Worst case scenario...everyone become self-employed & right it off.

Just my .02

LC

Boss Hoss 04-21-2006 12:57 PM

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Originally posted by 2-H2's:
Just jack your prices up to coincide with the gas prices & keep on gettin' it. If everyone's prices top out with the gas figures it a wash.

Worst case scenario...everyone become self-employed & right it off.
LC

I smell inflation...which is inevitable with rising energy cost. It is first felt on the producers side(PPI-producers price index) then dwindles down to consumers(CPI-consumers price index). Inflation=rising home interest rates...BTW, the Fed raising the Fed Funds rate(directly affects the "prime" rate) does not directly increase mortgage interest rates, however inflation does.


Im with Phil....i dont particularly care for paying more for gas...or anything else for that matter. It will not stop me from driving my truck as a please but it doesnt mean i like it.

PARAGON 04-21-2006 01:11 PM

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Originally posted by Boss Hoss:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by 2-H2's:
Just jack your prices up to coincide with the gas prices & keep on gettin' it. If everyone's prices top out with the gas figures it a wash.

Worst case scenario...everyone become self-employed & right it off.
LC

I smell inflation...which is inevitable with rising energy cost. It is first felt on the producers side(PPI-producers price index) then dwindles down to consumers(CPI-consumers price index). Inflation=rising home interest rates...BTW, the Fed raising the Fed Funds rate(directly affects the "prime" rate) does not directly increase mortgage interest rates, however inflation does.


Im with Phil....i dont particularly care for paying more for gas...or anything else for that matter. It will not stop me from driving my truck as a please but it doesnt mean i like it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Everything.... EVERYTHING is affected by fuel costs. You don't simply adjust your habits, costs to accomodate. The economy is a slow moving vehicle but it does move. With the fuel prices reaching upward and upward, shipping costs for everything gets higher and higher, travel costs for business gets higher and higher and eventually everything on the consumer end does cost more (as Boss Hoss was stating).

This retards capital investment in business so 5-10 years down the road the economy is still taking a dump because all the money was spent on freight/travel/fuel costs and the direct/indirect results of it.

So, worrying about spending a few quarters more per gallon right now might not seem like much to some, it's going to bite you and everyone else in the ass if it's not brought under control.

It is all about supply and demand, but it's supply and demand of the oil futures that's affecting the fuel costs.

Idaho-Hummer 04-21-2006 01:29 PM

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Originally posted by PARAGON:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Boss Hoss:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by 2-H2's:
Just jack your prices up to coincide with the gas prices & keep on gettin' it. If everyone's prices top out with the gas figures it a wash.

Worst case scenario...everyone become self-employed & right it off.
LC

I smell inflation...which is inevitable with rising energy cost. It is first felt on the producers side(PPI-producers price index) then dwindles down to consumers(CPI-consumers price index). Inflation=rising home interest rates...BTW, the Fed raising the Fed Funds rate(directly affects the "prime" rate) does not directly increase mortgage interest rates, however inflation does.


Im with Phil....i dont particularly care for paying more for gas...or anything else for that matter. It will not stop me from driving my truck as a please but it doesnt mean i like it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Everything.... EVERYTHING is affected by fuel costs. You don't simply adjust your habits, costs to accomodate. The economy is a slow moving vehicle but it does move. With the fuel prices reaching upward and upward, shipping costs for everything gets higher and higher, travel costs for business gets higher and higher and eventually everything on the consumer end does cost more (as Boss Hoss was stating).

This retards capital investment in business so 5-10 years down the road the economy is still taking a dump because all the money was spent on freight/travel/fuel costs and the direct/indirect results of it.

So, worrying about spending a few quarters more per gallon right now might not seem like much to some, it's going to bite you and everyone else in the ass if it's not brought under control.

It is all about supply and demand, but it's supply and demand of the oil futures that's affecting the fuel costs. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Weeelll its good thing that I get to be on the supply of the equation as well

h2itis 04-21-2006 01:47 PM

I like it.
A) It keeps ******* tree-huggers off of the road. That's important to me, because when I return,

B) I am driving to Knoxville, TN from SATX. The fewer tree-huggers, the lower my blood pressure. I'll pay a couple hundred for that. My wife doesn't think it's a good example for my son when I'm yanking some prick through the window on the side of the highway to administer a beating.

C) I own VLO, FTO, and a few other oil stocks, so I guess I win even if I lose.

Just wait until Iran cuts off production to the west. I wish we'd just get it over with and take over Venezuela.

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 02:03 PM

Not that it helps with the current prices or inflation, but one benefit with the higher prices is that more and more money is being put into finding more oil here in the states.

PARAGON 04-21-2006 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by Idaho-Hummer:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Boss Hoss:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by 2-H2's:
Just jack your prices up to coincide with the gas prices & keep on gettin' it. If everyone's prices top out with the gas figures it a wash.

Worst case scenario...everyone become self-employed & right it off.
LC

I smell inflation...which is inevitable with rising energy cost. It is first felt on the producers side(PPI-producers price index) then dwindles down to consumers(CPI-consumers price index). Inflation=rising home interest rates...BTW, the Fed raising the Fed Funds rate(directly affects the "prime" rate) does not directly increase mortgage interest rates, however inflation does.


Im with Phil....i dont particularly care for paying more for gas...or anything else for that matter. It will not stop me from driving my truck as a please but it doesnt mean i like it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Everything.... EVERYTHING is affected by fuel costs. You don't simply adjust your habits, costs to accomodate. The economy is a slow moving vehicle but it does move. With the fuel prices reaching upward and upward, shipping costs for everything gets higher and higher, travel costs for business gets higher and higher and eventually everything on the consumer end does cost more (as Boss Hoss was stating).

This retards capital investment in business so 5-10 years down the road the economy is still taking a dump because all the money was spent on freight/travel/fuel costs and the direct/indirect results of it.

So, worrying about spending a few quarters more per gallon right now might not seem like much to some, it's going to bite you and everyone else in the ass if it's not brought under control.

It is all about supply and demand, but it's supply and demand of the oil futures that's affecting the fuel costs. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Weeelll its good thing that I get to be on the supply of the equation as well </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Weeelll, that's just stupid

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 02:19 PM

It just hit $74 a barrel

h2itis 04-21-2006 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by HummerNewbie:
It just hit $74 a barrel

VLO just hit 68.75

Idaho-Hummer 04-21-2006 02:50 PM

Whoa job security

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by Idaho-Hummer:
Whoa job security

Yes, I think your level of security just went up a bit

ckhagman 04-21-2006 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by Idaho-Hummer:

Weeelll its good thing that I get to be on the supply of the equation as well



That is great.

I hope they go back to rationing. Then nobody will be on the road.... Well except for maybe... ME

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by HummerNewbie:
It just hit $74 a barrel

Still going up.

kauaiboy 04-21-2006 03:38 PM

it's $3.38 here in kauai, hawaii for regular unleaded. i heard that it will go up 14 cents again next week. it's okay to put regular unleaded gas on the H2 right?

Idaho-Hummer 04-21-2006 03:42 PM

will hit $80 a barrel this summer or come very close to it

Idaho-Hummer 04-21-2006 03:44 PM

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Originally posted by HummerNewbie:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by HummerNewbie:
It just hit $74 a barrel

Still going up. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

where are you getting your price updates at?

Albie 04-21-2006 03:50 PM

lets seee... awww i use my rig to cruz for chicks in vegas..hummmm nope not gonna change my plannn hehehehe

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 03:52 PM

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Originally posted by Idaho-Hummer:
where are you getting your price updates at?

Checking with the office. Will find out later where the info comes from.

HummerNewbie 04-21-2006 04:00 PM

Just checked a site I have in my favorites and they have a link to energy commodities futures. As of 1:28 (quotes are delayed) the last trade was at $74.75. That is down $0.05 from a minute before.


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