what happen to the days my dad tells me about when 10 bucks filled up his firebird

Howdy Dan,
The good old days!¡ Could put $2.00 worth of gas in the tank and it would last a while because that would be about eight gallons. Good thing because I was only makeing $1.35 an hour

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Frank X. Morris
17 Kia Niro
08 Jeep Wrangler 4 door unlimited

Snibble, you're right. I would be VERY HAPPY to be able to buy gas at the prices quoted in this thread. Right now a LITER of 95 octane gasoline costs over 75 cents in Poland. And there's almost four liters to a gallon!
So stop complaing you guys!!! You wouldn't want to know what the average salary is around here ;-)

How far do people in Poland drive a day?

I guess the distances here are much shorter than in the US. For example I live and work in the same city (a lot of people here do) and drive a total of about 40-50 miles on an average working day.
You?

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1987 300E 185k miles

I drive close to 100 miles a day every day of the week for school and work. gets old after a while
It took 25 bucks to fill up the Carvan last night before it was 18-19

Canadian price here on southern Vancouver Island is:

75 cents per litre = C$2.835 per US gallon

US Exchange is about C$1.57 to US$1.00

so our gas is about US$1.80 per US gallon

At these prices, the 560SEL had to go. The 300E stays.

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VR
1967 250SL

Here on the GTA we're paying over 70c a litre Canadian (87 octane, dont know about the higher ratings) . So roughly 45c US a litre, not much better then Europe.

When I get my diesel, Im going to run it on heating oil, which costs like 15c a litre.

...in Germany we currently pay around one € per Liter.

That is about $ 3.50 per Gallon.

Filling up my 22 Gallons tank is two days salary.

So don't wine about your gas prices.

Kind regards
Eberhard

yes but emissions also result in us getting less gas mileage.
Example
My 500
24-27 mpg
normal american
16-19

In 1974 it took roughly 15 minutes at minimum wage to buy one gallon. In 2001 (Calif.) it's the same amount of time eventhough they have doubled the taxes.

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Darryl, Hill
2005 SL55 AMG Kleemanized
1984 500 SEC
1967 W113 California Coupe
[SIGPIC]
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

...for same amount of fuel? See...

And with the much better mileage we are getting with todays cars driving has never been cheaper.

We did a thorough test for Oldtimer Markt, the biggest german classic car magazin. Four cars with four kinds of fuel and different settings of ignition with a separat test tank for exact results.

What did we find:
Best mileage with highest octan fuel and adjusted ignition (very early)
NO lack of power even with after market catalytic converter (System Wurm) (my car put out 101.8 KW instead of the 100 KW originally)
NO increased fuel consumption at cars with catalytic converter. The car without cat had a better mileage in the beginning, but was hazardous lean.

Kind regards
Eberhard
(W 123 230 E with after market catalytic converter which meets new car standards of 1997)

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1.50 a gallon today in Daytona

Do you know what I think is ironic?

This happens every year. This time of year gas prices jump, maybe a little faster some years but they take a jump. If you adjust for inflation gas prices have gone DOWN over the last 20 years. Yet people still make it the single most important issue in the world.

I personally think the US should wage it’s own Oil War and stop buying from the Middle East and buy from Russia instead of giving them cash all the time.

My .02 mpg


The picture depicts why nothing is ever invented in the Middle East.

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reg 87 octane sw Ct - Citgo 1.359 / gal
+ that's the cheapest around

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP