[Vwdiesel] Diesel prices

[jeremy]

I do what I can to drive the least amount as possible. It is good for the environment as well as for ourselves. We still drive but we plan the trips and timing to maximize each trip taken. I used to ride my Honda CX500 motorcycle to work and it got about 50mpg 20 years ago. Now I ride bicycle to work 7 miles each way in LA, 2.5 miles in Seattle, rain or shine. It helps my own health as well as the environment. I am interesting in the fuel efficient cars as well. My 79 1.5 na Rabbit was giving me 50-55 mpg. I regret I sold it when I took a temp job assignment in Italy. The 81 Rabbit with 1.6na I just sold could only get 40-45mpg. I have a 83 MB 300D gets 26-31pmg but it is a lot more comfortable than the noisy Rabbits. My 72 Beetle gets only about 25mpg but I like its simplicity and originality no complicate electronics. If we all drive sensibly and conserve as much as possible I think we can enjoy our cars and keep the oil price in check.
Jeremy

--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Gary Bangs <gbangs at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

From: Gary Bangs <gbangs at cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Diesel prices
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 7:15 AM

If we didn't buy their products, they wouldn't be posting such large
profits.

I ride a motorcycle and use 3 gallons every two weeks. My wife drives the 05
Passat TDI and fills up every weeks to a month.

I have an 08 Jeep Patriot. Had it for a year, just now clocked over 5000mi. It
has a lifetime mpg of 23.

This is how I am sticking it to the "man"!

-Gary

Terry Briggs wrote:
> Then how does that explain the record profits this quarter with a 
> supposed reduction in consumption ? Or fuel prices jumping like they 
> did BEFORE the price of a barrel jumped accordingly. Much of the price 
> of fuel can be explained away in any number of ways here in the U.S. 
> The fact remains it jumped higher and faster than it should have. As a 
> course of fact, it should then drop as fast as it rose considering what 
> the price of oil is currently, fuel HERE should be sub $1.50
> On Nov 29, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Kurt Nolte wrote:
> 
>> Terry Briggs wrote:
>>> I wouldn't gripe about the price of fuel so much if the oil
companies
>>> weren't posting record profits every quarter. They do need to
make a
>>> profit, that's just biz, but gouging the public does nothing
but 
>>> create
>>> hate and discontent.
>> The oil company record profits were all reported in the same quarters
>> that they reported record sales volumes. There is no
"gouging" taking
>> place, there is no conspiracy, except the conspiracy of idleness and
>> apathy and resistance to personal sacrifice that keeps so many people 
>> in
>> houses and vehicles they cannot and even /could not originally/
afford.
>> The Conspiracy of "keeping up with the neighbors" and living
visibly
>> large, of appearing prosperous through the car you drive, the clothes
>> you wear and the house you bleed yourself dry every month to pay for.
>> The conspiracy of vanity, to be brief.
>>
>> -Kurt
>>
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