RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

cekkk wrote:
Actually, there has been virtually zero improvement in gas mileage over the decades. My '65 Chrysler Newport 383 V-8 got 16 at 70 on I-80 when new. My wife's Expedition with a 5.4 gets 16 -17 similar driving. True, lower emissions. But if you want 25, 35 MPGs, it's simple - get a tiny car with a tiny engine. That's really high tech!

About 40 years ago we had 4 cylinder cars that got 35-40mpg. The engines were 948 CC and had 4 speed transmissions and were small.

tomman58 wrote:
I thought that just a few weeks ago we were told with all the frak'n and crack'n and stuff we weren't supposed to see more than $3.50 for gas for a loooooooooooooong time. Well it is a $4.00 here and look'n to go higher. I guess a profit of just a few billion isn't enough!
The good news is GM has a battery that will go 200 miles, stay tuned!!!!

But the fine print on the battery announcement said about 2 years of development had to be done....:(

Actually, there has been virtually zero improvement in gas mileage over the decades. My '65 Chrysler Newport 383 V-8 got 16 at 70 on I-80 when new. My wife's Expedition with a 5.4 gets 16 -17 similar driving. True, lower emissions. But if you want 25, 35 MPGs, it's simple - get a tiny car with a tiny engine. That's really high tech!

Lets not forget to stop fracking NG, quit using coal stop the construction of any nuclear power plant and just plug the wire thing into the wall electric thing and get power from there.

It is not only the batteries, but the vehicle itself. It will be as out of date as a 10 year old cell phone by then and worthless on the used market.

But your complaining about the price rise in the last 4 years while the industry has been more or less flat.. More currency equals higher prices.

I remember in the 1970s labor and management both blaming each other over inflation with Uncle Sam and the "watch dog media" silent regarding the increase in money supply through debt.

Lets see if the batteries last 150K and 10 years before replacement and be sitting down when the bill for the battery replacement gets handed over.

I'm all for electric cars so we can end the use of fossile fuel. Just plug it in and hope the coal and gas fired generating plants haven't been shut down yet. :B

I thought that just a few weeks ago we were told with all the frak'n and crack'n and stuff we weren't supposed to see more than $3.50 for gas for a loooooooooooooong time. Well it is a $4.00 here and look'n to go higher. I guess a profit of just a few billion isn't enough!
The good news is GM has a battery that will go 200 miles, stay tuned!!!!

LR, you make the point I was thinking of. The answer is quite simple. It's a blind, unalterable talking point. And if lowering gas prices is the aim here, it's crazy. You know the definition of crazy, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Well, this was done a couple years ago and, yes, prices decreased modestly. But only for a few days. And we're expected to believe ongoing production of additional oil, not just a few tens of millions of barrels, would not reduce prices?

It's all part of new speak. You saw and heard me say it. But I really didn't. You may have played it all back, but you still took it out of context.

Darn, here I go, getting sucked into the quagmire again! :S

What I don't understand that releasing the reserves is supposed to reduce the price of gasoline, but drilling for more oil or putting in the Keystone XL pipeline is said to have affect. Both increase supply, Why do people say one helps and one has no affect? Makes no sense.