They're predicting gas at $7 gal next yr (oil at $200 barrel).Still keeping your 993?
05-09-2008, 12:12 PM
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05-09-2008, 12:30 PM
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CNBC's story yesterday said that $200 oil would equate to $5.50/gal. gas, where did $7 + come from? This country would shut down if thats the case. All 3 US auto makers would shut down, not being able to sell truck/suv's. Diesel would be $10 a gallon and with no pay increase, truckers would strike. This is just pure greed going on, not market or situation driven. Granted the powers that be, want to see things higher that $15 oil, but I can't believe Americans will stand for much more of this.
I could be wrong. Lets hope not
Hate to think this is the new norm!
I could be wrong. Lets hope not
Hate to think this is the new norm!
05-09-2008, 12:41 PM
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We've got our own nightmare up here with our President. Fortunately, we're about to wake up. I just hope that all of the Obama converts aren't disappointed if he doesn't put all the Iraq troops on a plane home the day after inauguration.
05-09-2008, 12:51 PM
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I think we'll all get to keep our 993s even if gas is 7 beans a gallon.
$7 bucks a gallon for gas isn't nearly as bad as double digit inflation and double digit interest rates were back in the 80s. Talk about an impact on the economy and on the middle class!
As I recall, the country survived.
$7 bucks a gallon for gas isn't nearly as bad as double digit inflation and double digit interest rates were back in the 80s. Talk about an impact on the economy and on the middle class!
As I recall, the country survived.
05-09-2008, 12:52 PM
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BTW, if this thread goes politico, I'm moving it to OT.
(No offense to those concerned about our current regime or the potential new ones, OT is just a better forum for it)
(No offense to those concerned about our current regime or the potential new ones, OT is just a better forum for it)
05-09-2008, 01:08 PM
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Let's do some math. If you drive 5,000 per year at 22 mph average, a $3 a gallon increase in gas costs about $680 more per year. How much did you spend on mods last year?
05-09-2008, 01:09 PM
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Gotta admit, I do NOT drive 55.
When she's had a good 10+ mins of 'oil warm-up time' -- I give her a good old Italian-Tune-Up - with the radio off - listening to the music behind me - as I haul a$$ from a traffic light or when peeling from a side-road onto a main highway.
When on the highway (e.g. Long Island Expressway) and traffic is 'moving' I slide her into 6th. and we're cruising at 75'ish at approx. 2600rpm.
So far, have been averaging 24mpg.
NO complaints!
Having emigrated here from Ireland - where "petrol" (when I was growing up) was 'already expensive' - I really don't pay too much mind, right now, to the cost of a fill-up. The high cost of "energy" is affecting EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Just because you have a 'sports car' doesn't mean that you feel the 'hurt' that much more than the guy who is driving a Yugo. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your own particular cost-of-living. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your 'disposable income'. If you are living UNDER or WITHIN your means -- then you can 'absorb' any extra expense. Those who were/are ALREADY living beyond their means are the ones who will have to do the 'ratcheting back'.
Having grown up poor-to-middle-class, back in Ireland, (as a teen back in the 70's)-- you learned to live within your means and NOT to live on credit and if you wanted anything - you SAVED for it first and foremost! That mindset has stayed with me.
To me, it's all about budgeting. If you haven't a clue about how to 'manage' and 'balance' and 'do without one thing so that you can have another' then you only have yourself to blame when TSHTF.
Gerry
When she's had a good 10+ mins of 'oil warm-up time' -- I give her a good old Italian-Tune-Up - with the radio off - listening to the music behind me - as I haul a$$ from a traffic light or when peeling from a side-road onto a main highway.
When on the highway (e.g. Long Island Expressway) and traffic is 'moving' I slide her into 6th. and we're cruising at 75'ish at approx. 2600rpm.
So far, have been averaging 24mpg.
NO complaints!
Having emigrated here from Ireland - where "petrol" (when I was growing up) was 'already expensive' - I really don't pay too much mind, right now, to the cost of a fill-up. The high cost of "energy" is affecting EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Just because you have a 'sports car' doesn't mean that you feel the 'hurt' that much more than the guy who is driving a Yugo. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your own particular cost-of-living. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your 'disposable income'. If you are living UNDER or WITHIN your means -- then you can 'absorb' any extra expense. Those who were/are ALREADY living beyond their means are the ones who will have to do the 'ratcheting back'.
Having grown up poor-to-middle-class, back in Ireland, (as a teen back in the 70's)-- you learned to live within your means and NOT to live on credit and if you wanted anything - you SAVED for it first and foremost! That mindset has stayed with me.
To me, it's all about budgeting. If you haven't a clue about how to 'manage' and 'balance' and 'do without one thing so that you can have another' then you only have yourself to blame when TSHTF.
Gerry
05-09-2008, 01:14 PM
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Ok, update from my earlier post. Due to some strikes in Greece, the base I am at didn't get any deliveries of gas this week and ran out today. I had to fill up on the economy today as I was less than a quarter tank. For 50 Euro, or $80 US, I put in 35 liters of 100 octane European gas (95-96 US standards). It was 1.429 Euro per liter which by fuzzy math works out to about $9.00 US per gallon. And all I got was about a half tank with that 50 Euro. Even the lower octanes, 95 and 96, would have been $8.00-$8.50 per gallon. So I splurged. Nice thing, in addition to the extra performance out of the V8, the fuel economy went up with the better gas.
Anyway, I am not crying over it. After living here for a year, $5-7 per gallon gas is not going to bother me in the States. So I spent $4000 a year in gas instead of $2000. Not going to break the bank.
Anyway, I am not crying over it. After living here for a year, $5-7 per gallon gas is not going to bother me in the States. So I spent $4000 a year in gas instead of $2000. Not going to break the bank.
05-09-2008, 01:57 PM
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We will not be selling the 993 (or the 356) because of the cost of fuel. IF we sell either one of them (and we might... Robert has an itch AGAIN) it's because we want the $$$ to do something or have something else.
That being said, we did sell the CayenneS because of the sucky gas mileage that it got and we wanted to dump it before the car really became a gas guzzling lame duck on the used car market along with all the other gas guzzling lame duck SUV's out there............ <Whew that's a mouth full>
BTW: 993 averages 22/23 mpg and the 356 gets even better mpg
05-09-2008, 02:53 PM
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Having emigrated here from Ireland - where "petrol" (when I was growing up) was 'already expensive' - I really don't pay too much mind, right now, to the cost of a fill-up. The high cost of "energy" is affecting EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Just because you have a 'sports car' doesn't mean that you feel the 'hurt' that much more than the guy who is driving a Yugo. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your own particular cost-of-living. It all has to do with how much of a 'dent' all this is making into your 'disposable income'. If you are living UNDER or WITHIN your means -- then you can 'absorb' any extra expense. Those who were/are ALREADY living beyond their means are the ones who will have to do the 'ratcheting back'.
Having grown up poor-to-middle-class, back in Ireland, (as a teen back in the 70's)-- you learned to live within your means and NOT to live on credit and if you wanted anything - you SAVED for it first and foremost! That mindset has stayed with me.
To me, it's all about budgeting. If you haven't a clue about how to 'manage' and 'balance' and 'do without one thing so that you can have another' then you only have yourself to blame when TSHTF.
Gerry
If something is keeping you awake at night worrying whether your annual overhead will go up $800, you're in over your head.
Find a way to have fun within your means. Or find a way to increase your means
Life is too short to spend it worrying or arguing with your spouse over finances.
05-09-2008, 02:56 PM
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We are paying just under $10 a gallon in the UK now.......I really thought it would affect things badly, but you still see gas guzzling cars everywhere and apparently the economy is holding up?............I am suprised how people have adjusted to pay the price,,,,I thought we would have ben in Mad-max territory by now!
05-09-2008, 03:12 PM
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I think the UK guys are talking about their Imperial Gallon, which is about 1.2 US Gallons.
05-09-2008, 03:26 PM
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More hand wringing?
Don't watch the news on TV. Sensationalism sells TV time.
Same goes for top-o-the-hour news on the radio.
The previous comment regarding oil futures driving up the price/barrel was spot on.
I'm going to go burn some refined dinosaurs in a bit...
Don't watch the news on TV. Sensationalism sells TV time.
Same goes for top-o-the-hour news on the radio.
The previous comment regarding oil futures driving up the price/barrel was spot on.
I'm going to go burn some refined dinosaurs in a bit...