Ever thought about maybe buying a smaller car? I get 30 mpg out of my car.
Holy craaaap! The E85 station in DC isn’t any cheaper than the regular gas stations- no fair!
three cheers for high overhead, high demand, and our government for giving us good alternative fuel sources.
Car? What’s that? 
My parents live 30 miles from one of the refineries. I live 2 hours but it’s still cheap here. Corn’s here, refineries are here, minimal transport cost - at least there’s 1 good thing about living in SD. Oh - and E85 is actually $1 per gallon cheaper…
And by the way - I did it! Picture to follow!!
Ok - here we go!
And the odometer!!!
I had to get my station wagon fixed and all they had to lone me was a truck. I felt so cool since my students think trucks are much better than sports cars. They also have much better vehicles than their teachers.
I think that much is just always true.
Hubby and I are going to buy a car. I want a Honda Fit (there’s a months-long waiting list in my area for hybrids, plus we couldn’t afford it), though I was also thinking about a Yaris… but I know more people with Fits, and they are very happy with them.
So we’ll see… I’ve got to get my act together on that. So I guess that should be filed under cool craaaaaaap I’d like to acquire 
Exac-T-ly. I would like to see the max amount of time set at eight years. Any more than that they began to lard up these bills with pork, and we are the ones who pay the price.
Yes! A Yaris! Buy the Yaris! See, a Yaris is an automobile, those “vehicles” half a dozen posts above you, those are aircraft carriers!
I have a midsize car that can hold more than some of those gas eaters. It is an uncool station wagon but it can hold 3 large dogs. I have been asked to help move furniture that can not fit in a SUV. It has a high safety rating and pedals that can move for short people like me. It also has great gas milage. (Central Florida to south Florida in less than a tank of gas.) So it may be uncool but it does the job. 
My thinking exactly, as long as people can afford to drive battle cruisers, gas, sadly, is not expensive enough.
What? So people shouldn’t be able to drive what they chose to? ?end of minor free-market rant
People choosing to drive what they want to instead of making a rational choice based on economic and economical necessities for more than half a century is what got us into the whole mess in the first place.
Strangely as gas prices have gone up in the US more people are buying smaller cars.
There’s nothing strange about this. What is sad is that it took so long.
Boxy, you’re too damn young to have a political affiliation. Seriously. At 14-15 you should just be out there having fun. Politics is a pursuit best left off till college.
So I should live like a hermit? If I didn’t own what you call an “aircraft carrier,” I wouldn’t be able to get around anywhere for seven months of the year. Yeah those new little cars are good on gas, but on these dirt mountain roads, especially in the winter, they aren’t going to cut it. Plus the vast majority of people who own these larger sized trucks need them for their own businesses, like carpenters and construction workers. Are they supposed to not work? Once again, those little cars aren’t going to cut it. What I would like to see is these companies start putting some effort into developing some hybrid trucks.
Well they are, but there are some issues with what they are designing.
I HATE the two-party system and I hate how structurally sound it is! It will be extremely difficult for another party to rise at this point. Sigh. My love/hate relationship with the First Amendment kills me. Our political system has SO MUCH potential and so little payout.
What we need in the U.S. is a good, old fashioned proletariat revolution. Workers of the world unite!
(Why do I get the feeling that the federal government just opened a file on me?) :eek: