by this summer. Let the Middle East party like it's 1967 as well.

Should smash whatever remains of this economic recovery down to hell. I have real estate to buy, and I want prices to stay down and consumers to stay dead in the water for another year. *CHEERS*

Here's hoping gas prices stabilize. Sorry if what's good for the country is bad for your personal situation.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

With gas at that price, how would you afford to run your trolling motor....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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God damn right -- it's all about me and the ability to use the property beatdown to be set for life, not be beholden to any f***ing boss other than my tenants. Ever. The lower property goes, the more people get kicked out of their houses or are forced to sell short, the more of a coprophagous grin I have on my face.

Alessio Rastani has it exactly right. "Every night I go to bed dreaming of another recession:"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/27/140843111/no-hoax-bbc-says-alessio-rastani-is-a-trader-who-wants-a-recession

PS - screw this country and 90% of the rubes who live here. They deserved the past 4 years and more! No sympathy or empathy from this end. Not a troll here, just brutally honest and unashamedly self-interested.

I wouldn't mind $6.00 gas either.

Get the $hitboxes off the road. I'd pay $10/gallon just to watch them squirm.

Unfortunately, it's coupled with $5.00 home heating oil.

C'mon, he's just reaching to the base nature. Man's natural essence is more evil than good and sometimes it's more obvious than others.

That said, I so wish the feds would raise the gas tax in two relatively-quick increments to $1. It would stabilize prices (and ultimately drop them back to something realistic), spur a more-meaningful move to more fuel-efficient vehicles, fund badly past-due transportation projects and keep a ton more money here instead of (1) the oil company coffers and (2) the hands of lots of people who hate us. It would also move more speculators out of the market, which is the real reason prices have jumped so much recently.

And part of the revenue could go back into making public transportation even more affordable. Even at current fuel prices it's still cheaper for me to drive than to take BART nearly anywhere; the only time BART wins is if parking or brutal traffic is an issue.

Not evil. Neutral but opportunistic. I didn't create the sub-prime crisis, but I see it as a hell of an opportunity. The people who created this mess are the evil ones.

It's not.

Public transportation is always cheaper if you figure your true cost per mile to run the vehicle.

Most people simply calculate the cost of the fuel, which is a fraction of the total vehicle cost.

I recently saw the cost of running various new vehicles. A Camry costs $.65 per mile and a large $hitbox costs over $1.00.

Of course, an old M/B will be less, but definitely not less than $.30 per mile.

CNG cars need to get fired up!!

I'd drive my precious w123 off a cliff for the keys to a brand new CNG/electric hybrid car.

Think About It...

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former members
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1978 300CD "El Toro"

Frackin' awesome idea Honestly, the solution isn't trading one fossil fuel for another, but renewables, hydro, and nuclear. Either use the electricity directly, or use it to make hydrogen.

It would be interesting if petroleum was a free market in which private corporations acted in their own self-interest and in pursuit of profit.

I hear ya.. Fracking is happening already with environmental with impacts. Like it or not, any part time environmentalist would have to come down off of that faced with the idea of sitting on a available supply of energy while oil goes up and up. Trading one fossil fuel (oil) for another (gas) will be a part,with renewables, of a diverse energy supply that will bring "US" further from the dependance on oil juice that they currently have.

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Current fleet
2006 E320 CDI
1992 300D - 5speed manual swapped

former members
1984 300D "Blues Mobile"

1978 300CD "El Toro"

Also, to my first comment. If i had one of these today

2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas Overview - Official Site

I could fill it up here

CNG Filling Station

And do my daily commute for $4.10

$16 in my benz today

$36 per day @$9/gal

Real Talk!

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2006 E320 CDI
1992 300D - 5speed manual swapped

former members
1984 300D "Blues Mobile"

1978 300CD "El Toro"

Here's hoping we all drive around in cars powered by nuclear reactors! Did you really write that? You wouldn't need radio traffic reporters--just avoid the sprouting mushroom clouds.

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in a W123 you would survive the fall off the cliff. not so sure about surviving that type of a fall in a Honda.