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pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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Well it happened today. We finally reached $ 100/barrel of oil. One barrel is 42 gallons, not 55 as some think.

 

Brace yourselves for further gas price increases.

matello Enthusiast

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Ouch! However it won't keep me from driving my truck, I will have to watch how and how much I drive.

Neutron Enthusiast

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Ouch! However it won't keep me from driving my truck, I will have to watch how and how much I drive.

 

 

We are cutting our expenses in our house. Already cut our $99 a month gym membership since we never really went, and now we will be cutting our satellite TV expenses down almost in half.

slomo007 Enthusiast

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Ouch! However it won't keep me from driving my truck, I will have to watch how and how much I drive.

 

 

We are cutting our expenses in our house. Already cut our $99 a month gym membership since we never really went, and now we will be cutting our satellite TV expenses down almost in half.

 

 

I'm in that boat basically. We bought an elliptical machine so we don't have gym memberships, and also use an antenna for our local HD stations and do not have any cable/satellite.

 

Still drive my truck, I'd much rather give up other things. Hell I'd turn my home heater off before I drove a Civic.

pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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I have an old Mazda that gets 25 MPG city to drive to work, so the truck can stay in the garage. And because I live in Florida, I can ride my motorcycle to work all year round too.

matello Enthusiast

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Ouch! However it won't keep me from driving my truck, I will have to watch how and how much I drive.

 

 

We are cutting our expenses in our house. Already cut our $99 a month gym membership since we never really went, and now we will be cutting our satellite TV expenses down almost in half.

 

 

I'm in that boat basically. We bought an elliptical machine so we don't have gym memberships, and also use an antenna for our local HD stations and do not have any cable/satellite.

 

Still drive my truck, I'd much rather give up other things. Hell I'd turn my home heater off before I drove a Civic.

 

 

 

Atta boy! You can turn the heater on in the truck! :D

papapump51 Enthusiast

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the Mrs can drive the truck to work which is 5 min from home and I can drive our VW GLI - gets 31MPG at 70MPG! so I also live in Fl so I can ride my motorcycles also..just not to work since in Tampa my bike would be gone by the time I got out fo work!

pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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PM26 it is not false advertising...It does get that MPG thats why we got it good power and torque and great mpg

It was a joke - you wrote "31 MPG at 70 MPG" instead of "31 MPG and 70 MPH".

 

I'll probably squeeze close to 30 MPG at 70 MPH out of my Mazda 626 V6 too.

Jaredkm Enthusiast

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Ouch! However it won't keep me from driving my truck, I will have to watch how and how much I drive.

 

 

We are cutting our expenses in our house. Already cut our $99 a month gym membership since we never really went, and now we will be cutting our satellite TV expenses down almost in half.

 

 

I'm in that boat basically. We bought an elliptical machine so we don't have gym memberships, and also use an antenna for our local HD stations and do not have any cable/satellite.

 

Still drive my truck, I'd much rather give up other things. Hell I'd turn my home heater off before I drove a Civic.

 

 

possible reasons why you wouldnt drive a civic?

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