Originally Posted by BWillie007 (Post 4700279)

It's because people can't afford to drive all over hell. They are more inclined to stay at their house. I'll have friends say come to Lawrence or Topeka. I tell them it will cost me 30 dollars to drive there and back so I say screw it. We are finally witnessing the point where the resource is becoming somewhat inelastic.

My car gets 16 miles per gallon. It's 16 miles to work. If gas is 3.50 a gallon I'm actually paying 7 dollars every freaking day to get to work. Now that is just ridiculous.

If we had cars that got 70 mpg we wouldn't have this problem. I want to buy a Honda Insight that gets that gas mileage, but even buying a 2000 with 150K miles is 14K. And the thing is tiny and has no back seats.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 4700309)

Congress could lower the price of gasoline by $.184 right now, if they were so inclined. Other than that...

Originally Posted by PhillyChiefFan (Post 4700313)

taxes or federal oil reserve?

Originally Posted by BWillie007 (Post 4700279)

It's because people can't afford to drive all over hell. They are more inclined to stay at their house. I'll have friends say come to Lawrence or Topeka. I tell them it will cost me 30 dollars to drive there and back so I say screw it. We are finally witnessing the point where the resource is becoming somewhat inelastic.

My car gets 16 miles per gallon. It's 16 miles to work. If gas is 3.50 a gallon I'm actually paying 7 dollars every freaking day to get to work. Now that is just ridiculous.

If we had cars that got 70 mpg we wouldn't have this problem. I want to buy a Honda Insight that gets that gas mileage, but even buying a 2000 with 150K miles is 14K. And the thing is tiny and has no back seats.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 4700335)

My car gets about 16 MPG in town. I am thisclose to getting a friggin used Civic. If it's going to cost $70 to fill up my motherfucking gas tank, I want it to last more than a couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by Radar Chief (Post 4700341)

Get a motorcycle. Seriously, even my “warmed over” ’95 Kawasaki ZX-9 gets over 40 MPG highway.
Get something a bit more pedestrian and the mileage goes up to +50 MPG pretty easily.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 4700335)

. I am thisclose to getting a friggin used Civic.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 4700355)

I'd pay to see you cruising around in a Civic. :D

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 4700356)

My vehicle gets ~35 mph on the highway and it can't tip over. Well, not easily, anyway.

Originally Posted by Radar Chief (Post 4700388)

Can it pop a wheelie?

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 4700385)

Before I went into mid-life crisis mode and bought my '05 Mustang, I had an 03' Pontiac Vibe that I really liked. A Vibe is basically a tall Toyota Corolla stationwagon with a Pontiac grille. Got great mileage, was extremely useful, and I was a FOOL to ever get rid of it. Wish I still had the goddamn thing - it would be paid off now, too. :banghead: