nice rationale birch, i wish i could so willingly roll over and take it in the ***. also, 675 a month? pure insanity. gas here was 1.99 not 2 months ago.... 2.60 now... and rising steadily. such a sharp increase in price in such a short amount of time really gets the blood boiling.

 

chevracer, did i read that right? you worked for GM's R&D? if so im curious how you got there.. i wanna find my way into the auto industry somehow... studying mechanical engineering at college right now...

BTW i am quite impressed that i can get 18mpg in my fullsize truck with a V8 going through the mountains... i live on campus and it helps a ton when you can walk to class...

 

I guess Im not doing to bad then. I do about $40 a week. 8 miles round trip to work plus 2 extra trips for training a meetings in a week. Then I usually go home to my parents place which is about 70 miles one way. I do about 200 miles a week. I do about 16 mpg when its nice out, when it gets cold like it has been I drop down to roughly 13.

 

I'll take out a loan to pay for gas before i get rid of this truck...

 

If you all really want to get better gas mileage, fill up with only half a tank when you can. I mean its not like we are the only ones feeling this problem. We bitch but gas is like $5.88 a LITER over in the UK (Don't quote me on that). Its called Americans are used to huge cars that guzzle gas we aren't really willing to change anytime soon. Its simple Economics of supply and demand, the demand is high for gas in the US and there is a limited amount given to us, thus increasing the price. The reason gas prices still stay up is because simliar to ZZebes would rather spend $675 dollars a month on gas than give up their truck. It also doesn't help that the economy is not doing very well either. It will pass with time, it just takes everybody to give something up.

 

I do the same thing. It's psychological. When you have a full tank, you tend to drive faster (or accelerate harder) and go more places and put more miles on the truck simply because you feel like you have a **** ton of gas but as the needle heads left it starts to get your attention and you start to drive more conservative. At least I do. My GF pointed it out to me, until then I never noticed.

 

Well for me its simply the fact that i am between 6'6" and 6'7" so i really don't fit in any other vehicles than a truck and i made a definitive decision when i purchased the truck knowing full well it would be a gas pig. and i mod it knowing full well the gas mileage consequences. you gotta pay to play.

My goal is that my truck makes such a vacum from the high volumes of air entering that it chokes the other car.

 

**** I already only drive to places I have too. Except when I go to my parents place on the weekends. If my city wasnt so boring there would be 100+ miles a week I dont have to drive. That would be like 2.5 weeks on one tank.

But you are right about how you drive when you have half a tank compared to a full tank. I never thought of that.

 

it's acutally about $2.15 a liter, which comes out to just over $8 a gallon. let's do the math: $8 a gallon x 22 gallons of fuel= $176 per fill-up . anyone want to move over here with me??

 

im telling you guys its all about the corsica! about $20 a week for the cosica and about $20 a day for my truck! something really funny is that theres people out there that are addicted to modding corsicas just like everyone here and there trucks!!

corsicas.com check it out! lol