Stinking high gas $$$$

[jekirby]

Dawn Petrol
Snopes is your friend...

+1, lots of good stuff found there.

My local news has been pushing this stuff for a long time. Go figgar.

 

[Baz]

I live in a place that goes from +35 to -35 and can safely say I have never noticed a reduction in my fuel bill due to the weather.

My Bonniville has a trip computer in it that I never re-set, and the car never alters from 18 mpg unless I am letting it idle more in the winter. (It drops then of course)

And quit complaing, we are at $4.68 a US gallon today, Finland is over $11.00!

BTW, they are anticipating $11.70 a US gallon here by 2012. Your prices will be close to this.

 

[Fred W]

My Bonniville has a trip computer in it that I never re-set, and the car never alters from 18 mpg unless I am letting it idle more in the winter. (It drops then of course)

If you never reset the mpg computer you are much less likely to notice any change since you are applying any recent variation over a huge average. Instead, try resetting the computer every tank or every week or every month or something and see what the true variations over those time periods are.

 

[Capt. Bob]

Buy a horse

 

[TriggerT]

Buy a horse

That is going up as well. The cost of feed for our horses has close to doubled in the last 2 years.

 

[sonicspeed]

Buy a horse

only thing with a horse is the gas comes out the wrong end

 

[mdisher]

Buy a horse

That is going up as well. The cost of feed for our horses has close to doubled in the last 2 years.

Amen to that... I could almost make the case that the FJR is cheaper to own. If I had to I could turn it off for a couple months and the expenses go to '0'.

 

[fjrob1300]

There is nothing that can be done! Pay for your gas and ride! No protest is going to work. As for buying in the morning that's just silly. Ground temp at 16 feet is 54f in my water well. The sun is not going to warm it up. As for going slow at the pump you could not even measure the amount of fumes lost to the air. Pay the bill and be quiet about it about it.

 

[Randy]

I'm getting 50.5 cents per mile when I travel for work. Last week, I did a 228 mile trip, got $115 and spent $18 in gas. If I do that twice per month, I can cover cage fuel expenses for my car and my wife's car for the month.

 

[Fred W]

I'm getting 50.5 cents per mile when I travel for work. Last week, I did a 228 mile trip, got $115 and spent $18 in gas. If I do that twice per month, I can cover cage fuel expenses for my car and my wife's car for the month.

You're lucky your company will allow you to travel by MC for work, let alone reimburse you for it. Not sure what the IRS would say either. Mine strictly forbids employees to travel by motorcycle while on a work assignment. Of course, they are also self insured, which is the main focus of their objection.

 

[TriggerT]

Yup, I am getting $0.505 per mile as well from my company. the week before last I put on close to 1K miles, all on the company dime.

 

[Randy]

Yup, I am getting $0.0505 per mile as well from my company. the week before last I put on close to 1K miles, all on the company dime.

I'm not the bestest at mathology, but, I'm pretty sure you don't have that decimal point in the right place. If you do, you're losing some serious coin.

 

[TriggerT]

OOPS. Fixed It.