For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
Joined: Sep 19, 2007 Posts: 1090 Location: Land of the Tongva tribe
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
Pops wrote:
We also have had record rains - two months set records back to back. While we probably aren't as rough as down there the mud here gets pretty slick when wet after a 3or 5 inch rain and making it to the feed bunks is hard at times.
Consider yourself lucky. I talked to my brother lastnight and the National Forest is shutting down all public use on forest land because they haven't received a drop of rain since early February.
Unless the rains come and come big, they will be hauling a lot of hay at the end of summer and fall. Fuel effiency doesn't matter when it comes to those types of choices.
joeltrout _________________ ENERGY is the basis of our industrial civilization and sustains our standard of living. It is the foundation stone of our national wealth. A nation starved of energy.....will be a nation of starving people.
Joined: Jun 18, 2004 Posts: 714 Location: Western North Carolina
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
My current vehicles all run good, are reliable, and do pretty well on fuel, the lone exception being my old F100 long bed. It's too useful to get rid of, even if it gets 15mpg. Lots of load capacity. If it had a limited slip rear-end it would be optimal. But that's $400 I need for something else.
Would I buy another car? Yes, if I could find a deal on a CRX HF 5 m/t just to drive to work. I use about a gallon of gas per day commuting to work in my V6 Altima (which will be paid off in July). A CRX could cut my fuel use in half. And I have always liked small Hondas and Acuras.
If no CRX deals are forthcoming, then I see no reason why the cars I have won't last till I can't afford to drive them.
Joined: Sep 02, 2005 Posts: 2876 Location: In a Nigerian compound surrounded by mighty dignataries
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
Pops wrote:
joeltrout wrote:
Consider yourself lucky.
Ouch!
We moved here partly because of the rainfall during the growing season, I was only gripping a little!
My back doesn't feel so lucky. Yesterday I moved 5 wheel barrels full of gravel to fill a new gulley. _________________ In other words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite.-from Full Metal Jacket
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
Our car is really rusty with holes and old and I expect it will break down within months. I thought and thought what I will do then, but the problem is that we often have to transport things, and a bicycle trailer is simply too small. The public transport in Australia is bad.
I think of buying another car then, although we drive very little but this little would be very inconvenient without car.
I can get a car for around $1000-1500 and in this price range it will be much more efficient than the one I have got now.
I hope having this one some more month , as it's dry now and the rust won't advance a lot.
The bad things about the electric cars is that it would cost much more than the 1500 dollars I intend to spend as a maximum.
Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 1159 Location: western Wisconsin
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
Roy wrote:
Would I buy another car? Yes, if I could find a deal on a CRX HF 5 m/t just to drive to work. I use about a gallon of gas per day commuting to work in my V6 Altima (which will be paid off in July). A CRX could cut my fuel use in half. And I have always liked small Hondas and Acuras.
One of my sons just had a newer engine put in his CRX HF. The original engine was rough and not running too well, and he found someone who was hot-rodding their CRX and had taken out the HF engine and replaced it with something more powerful, and he got the HF engine just for hauling it away. Also got the proper CRX HF transmission, and both engine and tranny are much better shape than the ones that had been in his car. Now it is running like it is supposed to, and is really a good little car.
Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 1159 Location: western Wisconsin
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: Will you buy another gas powered car?
Pops wrote:
I'm with Ludi and Patience, the last rationing (aside from price) was simply odd even plate numbers.
I'd like to hear from folks filling the farm tank in the '70s though, I'll ask the neighbor tonight as well.
Back in 1973 we had a friend who had just bought a small farm south of Madison, WI, and had a terrible time getting tractor fuel. He carried a couple of 5 gallon gas cans with him, and filled them whenever he got the chance, went home, poured the gas in the tractor, and did field work until he was out of fuel.
Then I remember Nixon's price controls on many products, just about the time that we were in the market for fencing and posts for the farm that we had just bought, and we couldn't find anyone who would sell us any. They couldn't raise their prices, so manufacturer's weren't shipping them.
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