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[Agamon]

Bah! 12 hours of nothing! You can do most of that in Texas alone! You ever driven from Orange or even Beaumont to El Paso? I haven't. I've done Houston to El Paso and that was long enough, and Houston up through Amarillo to Colorado/New Mexico... those were already 8-10 hours of nothing as it is.

You want driving for hours through nothing? Visit Western Canada. Not only are we big, we have way more nothing!

 

[IronWolf]

Heck, I haven't seen a gas station in three days, so I have no idea what the prices are right now!

 

[reveal]

Visit Western Canada. Not only are we big, we have way more nothing!

I think that was on a brochure I saw once.

 

[Zappo]

Eek. To me, 12 hours of driving means that I'd traverse the whole country and pass within a couple hundred kilometers of something like one sixth of mankind's works of art, several pretty good mountains and beaches, and everyone in my family that I know. And that's just going southwards. Europe is way smaller.

 

[DonTadow]

This whole bit with rising gas prices has pretty much convinced me that it's time to invest (as in stock) in alternative fuels. I figure we're going to hit a point in the next few years where that sort of stuff really starts to take off and alternative energy sources like hydrogen fuel cells and biofuels will really start to take off.

Oh, and gas was $2.69/gal this morning on my way to work.

Analyzsts today say gas will hit 4 dollars easily without question the thing is where will it stop.. some say 5 bucks. Man thats expensive, I am definatly getting a hybrid for xmas.

Today it cost me 3.00 dollars a gallon in Detroit

 

[Dinkeldog]

2.76/gallon last night up to 2.99/gallon this morning. I'm glad I filled the tank last night. As a full time student, that's a huge percentage of my income. Looks like lots of peanut butter and jelly and grilled cheese this month. Hmmm...I wonder what grilled pb&j would taste like...

 

[mojo1701]

Stop paying taxes. That'll reduce the percentage.

Man, I'm just full of great financial advice!

Was that sarcasm, BG?

 

[Hijinks]

Airbags have made it unsafe to put kids in the front seat of most cars. Car seat laws mean it's nearly impossible to stuff three kids in the back seat (this is why an SUV is better than a three-row station wagon). Throw in that SUVs don't have the same image problem that minivans and station wagons do, and you get lots of SUVs.

I thought people who drove SUVs and minivans were doing so because they could a.) block the view of everyone in a smaller car, b.) take up 2-3 parking spaces at public places, and c.) block traffic because they nose the dang things out into the middle of intersections so that they can turn comfortably.

I despise minivans because they're so hard to see around. SUVs are a bit better. But I haven't met too many people who drive a *really* big SUV like a Chevy Tahoe or Suburban who can always park it in the space correctly. There's a woman at work who drives a Tahoe and she can *never* park it fully in the space, it is *always* over the line. I've spit on that thing more than once because I had to park half a mile further away because she was blocking the only other open spot.

Last time I filled up was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at $1.44/gallon. Ethanol > all. But that was more than 2 weeks ago. I've still got 3/4 tank left. <3 Honda Civics!

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

You can find the answer to that question and many other peanut butter related things in this thread!

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=141823

 

[mojo1701]

2.76/gallon last night up to 2.99/gallon this morning. I'm glad I filled the tank last night. As a full time student, that's a huge percentage of my income. Looks like lots of peanut butter and jelly and grilled cheese this month. Hmmm...I wonder what grilled pb&j would taste like...

I don't know, but I wouldn't want to be the one to find out.