Since everyone is experiencing the high gas prices, how are you cooping with it besides driving.....
06-11-2008, 04:48 AM
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Since everyone is experiencing the high gas prices, how are you cooping with it besides driving.....
a different car car with better mileage?
06-11-2008, 04:53 AM
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To me, it's all a matter of perspective. Life's too short to drive crappy cars.
In the grand scheme of things, even at ~22 MPG and $4.00/gallon, it's only costing me an extra $100 or so each month compared to a year ago when I was driving a 4-cylinder Mazda Protege5 (an awesome car, by the way). Not that this isn't a substantial sum of money, but it's also paying for a lot of hours of pleasure. If I had to guess, I'd say I'm paying about $2/hour to enjoy this amazing car. Worth it in my opinion. What's the cost/fun ratio of say, an amusement park or a day at the race track?
06-11-2008, 04:56 AM
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i'm driving the exact same way as before....looking forward to going to the track as often
as possible....buying a track car and giving the big girl a rest....oh i did sell the suburban and bought the wife an a4....to be honest the price of gas concerns me very little in the overall scheme of things....
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06-11-2008, 06:16 AM
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thank god there's someone else concerned about other things
i drive 25k a year and even driving my gas hog premium eating monster of a car it only means an extra 2-3k for the whole year! I don't like it, but it's not going to force me to eat ramen or anything crazy...
06-11-2008, 06:17 AM
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Still drive the same but when prices start to hurt then I'll have to earn more $$ at the job.
I'll never downgrade my primary vehicle down to something that's less than 1/2 the 300hp I am used to. My past 3 vehicles (GMC Typhoon, Cadillac STS and Lexus LS430)have been around or at 300hp.