Gas prices, a perspective

[cstem]

We in Phoenix are at $2 per for reg unleaded right now!  So if it keeps going I will be bike-commuting too.  Trouble is the 'hood (literally) where I work is no place for a grown man in lycra!  Oh well, I can use the 'hood for my speed training!!

[MZGirl]

 Trouble is the 'hood (literally) where I work is no place for a grown man in lycra!  Oh well, I can use the 'hood for my speed training!!

Haven't you heard of baggies?  If the hood is gnarly, I suggest full downhill race armor.    ;)

[sdiver68]

Yeah, but that's for all those socialized countries where they pay for every kind of thing...except for their defense, which we do.

WE pay for their medicine also  >:(

[Super Dave]

Also, effeciency of vehicles in Europe is, on average, better, which helps offset any fuel costs.

Well, they sell more "econo" boxes there because the Nanny States there charge and extra $5,000 tp $8,000 in taxes at purchase on larger displacement motors...I think on anything more than 2.0L.  Then you've got to pay a premium every year.  

Starting to understand why motorcycles are more popular in Europe?

[Zac]

It's kinda funny as we discuss this, because I just dumped 5 gallons of VP C-12 in my Volvo.  And it was premixed with Silkolene Pro-2T.  

Need to get rid of the old premix somehow.  It's nice to have an old car with no cat that was designed for leaded fuel.  Actually, unleaded causes the valves to recess on that car so fast they'll take up all the clearance in 500 miles.

-z.