Just a thought.
Er drive the squareback next time
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DOH!!!
as long as you wash the dishes . . .Amskeptic wrote:My vaunted intuition, some would call it Psychic Ability, tells me there is a tad vested interest here. . . .byproxy wrote:uh, colin? i just heard we could be paying $5 a gallon by mid-summer.
doesnt that sound just awful? how will you ever manage? i dont think its possible. it would be reaaalllly hard to do.
cindy
I would have to just cancel the itinerary if the price of gas skyrocketed to such an alarming degree. . .
I would end up sleeping until noon, sitting and scratching on the couch in my tanktop and underwear watching loud game shows and belching Diet Coke while spilling hideous orange cheese doodles all over the carpet, "yeah I WENT through the classifieds couldn't find NUTHIN quit NAGGIN me, socks on the floor never hurt nobody, would ya get outta my FACE?? I can't hear the TV."
Colin
Increases vaporization and surface tension. Octane aside was comment that adding too much brings you back to square one .Raising octane merely slows the burn. It does not yield greater calories out of the fuel. So my question to you is, does your recipe add calories or slow the burn?
I actually expected it last summer.glasseye wrote:The gas price runup: everyone knew it was coming (peak oil) nobody knew it would arrive so quickly. We'll all get used to it in time, but big changes are on the way.
=D>glasseye wrote: The IAC gas surcharge: I'm amazed that it's so small. $20 seems like not enough, given the change in fuel price over last year.
=D>Spiffy wrote: What about a small percentage of the donations to the forum go to help you with yer gas? Even 10% wouldn't hurt?
Just a thought.
The more Colin travels about the country and experiences more and more of these wonderful vehicles and the 1,000,001 issues that we'll all face eventually, the better off we'll all be by being privy to his vast and still-growing knowledge. It's in the best interest of all of us that he be able to continue to do what he does. Obviously, those of us with personal visits could/should bear the lion-share of the burden, but as long as Sluggo's costs are covered, I think the balance (if there is any) could be used to help him out as much as possible. The IAC forum donations, as well as his personal visits are strictly voluntary so I don't see a problem with it. Please, if anyone has a dissenting opinion, please share.spiffy wrote:What about a small percentage of the donations to the forum go to help you with yer gas?
I wrote about this thing in 2004. Velokid1 tipped me off. I was all panicky and said that I would not do the itinerary if crude hit $100.00 per barrel because the entire Western economy would begin to fold like a house of cards. Well, I was loath to listen to my own counsel, and indeed, inflation and devaluation is going to smack us around. The $20.00 is half of what I need, but we are splitting it.glasseye wrote:The gas price runup: everyone knew it was coming (peak oil) nobody knew it would arrive so quickly. We'll all get used to it in time, but big changes are on the way.
The IAC gas surcharge: I'm amazed that it's so small. $20 seems like not enough, given the change in fuel price over last year.
The couch potato: sounds good to me."Where's my clean SOCKS?"
We don't have gas lines because we don't have price controls. We had them then because we did. If you try to fix a price below the market-clearing level, you guarantee a shortage; the law of supply and demand is as certain as the law of gravity.vdubyah73 wrote:We don't have the gas lines we had in '74, no rationing, no gas stations running out of gas. There was a true shortage back then due to the OPEC embargo.......
I don't mean any disrespect to anyone who feels that anything extra is overstepping any legal ground, but I just have to say that in the real world things are rarely perfect. A little bit of compassion and compromise go a long way in my book, especially when you are talking about (what I think most would agree) is a nominal amount.hippiewannabe wrote: It's only fair to share the burden, but the nit-pickers are on firm legal ground, in that sending you a deposit confirmed a contract at a fixed price. Just remember that contract also covers a fixed number of hours, and a reasonable pace of work.