Well, that was shocking.

[jinman]

I've been wondering how the poor souls delivering newspapers or pizza are surviving.

Phil

Of course, I don't know about pizza or the paper, but the post office is raising the price of postage.

 

[bigshovel]

At my business we use between 4000 and 5000 gallons per month on 4 vehicles. Thats a signifigant hit on the bottom line over last year. You can only raise prices so much to stay competitive. It will be interesting to see what the trucking company's do to stay afloat that burn 250,000 gallons a month. I would not want that bill.

Brad

 

[MossRoad]

Well, our 29MPG Impala's tranny is dying. Not safe to take out of town. Estimate to repair is $2400! We had reservations at a water park in the Wisconsin Dells Sunday and Monday, so we had to take the Suburban. The thing went all the way there and back on one tank of gas... 680 miles! We averaged 17.3 MPG. That was with three hours of stop and go through Chicago, about 50 miles of city driving in the Dells and 65-70MPH the rest of the way. For a 15 year old Chevy 350 I was pleased. Fuel costs were a low of $3.25 when we left to a high of $3.55 when we came back. I skipped that place and got it for $3.44. It had jumped .19 in two days.

 

[MossRoad]

T...(filled my K2500 this morning @ $95)...
Phil

The Subrban took two transactions to fill. Our credit card company limits gas purchases to $75.00 a poke when paying at the pump. $146.00 to fill up when near empty!

 

[Podunkadunk]

At my business we use between 4000 and 5000 gallons per month on 4 vehicles. Thats a signifigant hit on the bottom line over last year. You can only raise prices so much to stay competitive. It will be interesting to see what the trucking company's do to stay afloat that burn 250,000 gallons a month. I would not want that bill.

Brad

They'll do what everyone else will do...pass those costs on to the consumer. Eventually, the consumer will get fed up and won't buy non-necessities, thereby driving the recession ever further.

Something (I wish I could define "something") has to be done...NOW. Otherwise, it will only get worse. I feel for the people who can't afford 3-4$ gas prices . It's a mess, people can only cut back and budget-trim so far.

I'm curious to see if it leads to depression or not.

Podunk

 

[davitk]

You need to have that Dodge checked out! I consistently get 13 mpg in my 5.9l half ton

I've been getting 11 with mine, replaced the spark plugs (some idiot gapped them wrong) and jumped to 12!! Yee Ha

 

[Soundguy]

I'm curious to see if it leads to depression or not.

Podunk

It's depressing me already!

soundguy

 

[jinman]

I'm curious to see if it leads to depression or not.

Podunk

Maybe it will lead to tele-commuting, Internet sales, and advanced innovation that will throttle economic growth. Just think. . . WalMart.com could put a squeeze on Amazon.com and take over UPS. Then you could have WalMart door-to-door on every street corner. What can "brown" do for you?

 

[bigshovel]

Maybe it will lead to tele-commuting, Internet sales, and advanced innovation that will throttle economic growth. Just think. . . WalMart.com could put a squeeze on Amazon.com and take over UPS. Then you could have WalMart door-to-door on every street corner. What can "brown" do for you?

I give my project managers the ability to telecommute about half do, the rest must like to drive.

Brad

 

[Podunkadunk]

It's depressing me already!

soundguy

Yep.

I'm depressed because it's too late to edit my post and put an "a" in front of depression...changing it from a state of mind to an economic state.

Good on ya for catching that. I guess it's applicable both ways though...I am depressed every time I fill up.

Podunk