(Un)Official RC Fossil Fuel Thread

[lizard]

I know we'll get precious little sympathy from our Eurofriends, but this past friday I paid $2.18 a gallon for 87 octane gas.

WTF if we are invading sand nations why can't we have cheaper gas.

 

[Hell Mike]

you give metric system + SEK + 95 oct. = I complain about having it worse

 

[lizard]

this may prove amusing: http://themessage.flysn.com/view_en.aspx?ecard=0e2fd1fd-6f29-410f-98ad-7c8d2cebdc18

 

[lizard]

haha these muslims are the shits.

It was almost closing time in Sadiq Abdul Hussein’s barbershop when a man in a black mask walked in, pulled out a pistol, and began spinning it on his finger, cowboy style.

The gunman was not after government officials or American collaborators. He had come because of the way Mr. Hussein cut hair.

Within seconds, the masked man opened fire, fatally wounding Mr. Hussein, 23, who lived long enough to describe the attack. The gunman also killed his partner and a customer.

In southern Baghdad, the hazards of life have come to this: gangs of militant Islamists are warning barbers that it is haram - forbidden - to shave men’s beards or do Western-style haircuts. As many as 12 barbers have been killed, Iraqi officials say, including five in one day in late January. With little hope of police protection, most now refuse to offer the offending cuts, and have placed prominent signs in their front windows saying so.

 

[speed]

I paid $2.19, but you know gas is like $5 a gallon in Europe. My friend and I rented a Fiat panda and drove all aorund Greece, which has relatively low gas prices; and it cost us over 30 euros to fill that little clown car up each time. Economists did a study on American and determined gas would have to be $30 a gallon for Americans to start changing their lifestyle. And I beleive it was $90 a gallon for there to be sort of a traffic stoppage. If it goes past $5 id consider other means of transport.

 

[NAD]

Hooray for unlimited use of a company gas card woo!!!

 

[J.]

I'm glad the wife has a company gas card. It costs around $32 for me to fill up my car at $1.99/gallon

Bush must be getting kickbacks from the Saudis over these prices. Instead of pressuring OPEC to drop prices, Bush wants to go drilling in Alaska. He's smart.

 

[Erik]

In Sweden we pay about $5.60 for 1 gallon of 95 octane gas so I suggest you keep your traps sealed :<

BTW, what the fuck is up with that low octane shit? It's impossible to get anything other than 96, 98 or 95 unleaded around here.

 

[lizard]

I paid $2.19, but you know gas is like $5 a gallon in Europe.

well yeah, that's why I said Europeans won't have alot of sympathy for our plight.

 

[lizard]

also it would help if I didn't drive this:

but I guess I get better mileage than like an Escalade.

 

[J.]

Well, it's all relative. Does the average European drive as much within a week as the average American? Also, doesn't Europe rely on other forms of transportation far more than America does? Like walking.

 

[NAD]

In Sweden we pay about $5.60 for 1 gallon of 95 octane gas so I suggest you keep your traps sealed :<

BTW, what the fuck is up with that low octane shit? It's impossible to get anything other than 96, 98 or 95 unleaded around here.

Man, I WISH I could get even 93 octane in California like the rest of the country, we have the most stringest smog and fuel rules in the country (thanks to California Air Resource Board, our standards are actually HIGHER than federal regulations) and the highest we can buy is 91 (unless you go get 100 octane race fuel at certain gas stations, but it's very expensive). If we had 98 octane here we could get the Japan-spec WRX and my car would run better. But one look at the Los Angeles horizon explains why, fuck me the smog is terrible out here. In fact, when I go camping in the mountains for the weekend, I come back and have breathing problems for a day or so.

Here's an example of how much us idiots drive out here. My morning drive is 1.2 miles to work, which involves 2 stoplights and 2 stop signs on side streets throush residential housing. Freeway on/off ramps are a block away to either side, and I pass under the freeway on this route but don't need to deal with that traffic. A year ago I would pass probably 15 cars on my way to work, this morning it was around 50 and it keeps getting worse.

 

[lizard]

let's see....I've got two stop signs, then two traffic lights, and then two stop signs....and at 0630 there's almost no traffic.

 

[NAD]

When I moved to this apartment 2 years ago I was thinking about getting a bike to take to work, for health purposes. But now I'd probably get croaked with all the traffic because there aren't exactly bike lines on the street I travel on.

 

[Erik]

Well, it's all relative. Does the average European drive as much within a week as the average American? Also, doesn't Europe rely on other forms of transportation far more than America does? Like walking.

Does the average European use annoyingly huge fucking beasts of fuel-slurpin' cars like this or this? But yeah, we have a far better and more widely used public transit system than you I'd wager, but I doubt the same is true in all of Europe? (WHAT? EUROPE ISN'T ALL ONE UNIFIED COUNTRY OF BAGUETTE-EATERS AND AMERICA-HATERS?)

 

[lurch70]

weird .. was still $2.25 for 93 octane in NYC this weekend.

 

[NAD]

Back offa da Escalade nikkuh, them shiats cost me the PHAT coin! Public transportation is actually great on the east coast, and places like San Francisco out west. But in SoCal it is virtually nonexistent, the only people that take the bus are poor people and the homeless. The Metrolink (small train system) seems pretty successful for commuters though, everything else not.

Side note: my friend's office is near a WIC (some food welfare program, I'm not sure of the specifics) and he sees Escalades on dubs pull up all the time and yells at them. "IF YOU DIDN'T SPEND $60,000 ON YOUR RIDE MAYBE YOU COULD FEED YOUR FUCKING KIDS!!!"

 

[lizard]

this is so awesome its stupid.

"Smart Truck 3"
NEW YORK - It may not be long before drivers of the Hummer - the steroid-laden sports utility vehicle favoured by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger - get a fright when they look in their rear-view mirrors.

Trailing them will be a set of wheels even bigger, greedier and more eye-catching than their own.

The US Army and the Chicago manufacturer International Truck and Engine Corporation are jointly developing a replacement for the venerable Humvee troop transporter, from which the Hummer was derived.

Last week, prototypes of the so-called "Smart Truck 3" were displayed at a trade show in Las Vegas. The army also wants the vehicles to be marketed to other customers such as government agencies or regular Joes who only feel right using a stepladder to get behind thewheel.

The commercial version would not have the electronics designed to detect anthrax, the Kevlar armouring on the underside, the night-vision cameras and the 25-inch LCD touch-screen computer monitors. But it would be just as big.

The Smart Truck would weigh in at no less than 8,000lb, compared to nearly 5,000lb for the second generation Hummer, the H2. It would be about 3in higher than the Hummer and 4ft longer, but its fuel consumption would be lower.

 

[NAD]

http://www.fuh2.com/

hahaha anyone see the Simpsons last night? Homer and Marge are chasing Bart and Lisa, driving a motorhome on the freeway.

"Oh great, all these SUVs are in my way!"
"Don't worry, there's a slight curve up ahead!"

*20 SUVs catch fire and tumble off the cliff*

 

[lizard]

WIC is a federal program which provides key nutritional foods to pregnant women and kids up to a certain age. It stands for, cleverly or not, Women Infants Children.