It is funny they will have too fill up every couple hours for real. Whats not funny is they are stealing our resources and not caring one bit about how they are driving our prices up and that is truly not funny what so ever

 

Well I don't think MINI has much of a fuel economy advantage. Here I have a tiny little MINI, with a tiny 4-cylinder, and I get 22-23 MPG....and my mom has a full-size Chevy Impala, with a 3.8 liter V6 and she gets 29-30 MPG. Seems like the General knows something BMW doesn't. When it comes to guzzling up fuel, the MINI S is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It only costs me $30 to $35 to fill up, but having to do that 3 times a week, I certainly am not gonna laugh at an SUV driver. I feel their pain.

 

I get 24 to 27 in town in my 02 MCS and get 35 to 37 on the road. You may have a problem with your engine.

 

I got 25~27 mpg (in town driving) on my 05MCS (6 spd).. (nice gearing, but suck more gas compare to 02-04)
I wonder if yours still not break-in or becasue of the automatic

 

NO Today's gas price is not set by supply ....It is being set by DEMAND. The supply is constant but every freak in town is filling up thier 20 gal tanks because of THIER percieved shortage.

Next week after all the people panicing have stopped gas price will be based upon supply (or lack of)

see previous explanation rember those fools in line for gas on the afternoon of sept 11

Ok...... ............If a companies profit margin is say 20% Well, 20% of $3.00 is TWICE as much profit in $$$$ than 20% of $1.50....A companies profits should be viewed by margin not just $$

Bottom line is.....This is victim mentality....Im a victim of big evil corporations and people who conspire behind closed doors, anything to avoid personal responsibility.

Gas prices are DIRECTLY attributable to our actions. Companies always have and always will make money by giving people WHAT THEY WANT at a price they are WILLING to pay....I think there are alot of people who just want to blame someone for their circumstances

 

Sorry I didn't notice you had the auto and that may be the difference from the stick. Sticks have always had better gas mileage than autos.

 

True!

Listen to the alarmists, they love to rile up people

WOE IS ME ... Gas is SO high

 

I paid $2.799 this morning and the place across the street from where I filled up was $2.96. I'm gonna drive by on the way to dinner tonight and see if the prices have gone up again.

 

does anyone else keep their receipts?

I've filled up every week (sometimes twice) since i bought my mini, and have kept every receipt. I try to go to the same station(s) every time, and i think it would be fun to see how much the prices changed everytime i filled up.

I'm also sad enough to write down the mileage i'm at when i fill up.

 

If you think gas prices are high wait until you see the rise in construction materials. I sure hope no one is building a house right now. Remember the sheet rock shortage? This is going to be worse.

 

Hmmmmm.....What is that whooshing sound I hear....Hope its not coming out of the housing price balloon

 

I hope to hell it is and I hope to see a whole lot of interest free loans being called in. :smile: It's about time the housing market got back to reality because it's as bad as gas, worse.

 

If anything this will drive new home prices up due the shortage of construction materials. Demand for new homes is still high and now it's going to be even higher with FEMA getting priority for all the construction.

Just so I'm not high-jacking the thread I heard that Colonial is back online and moving gasoline but at a much reduced rate. They didn't say what that rate is or what that means exactly other than it's flowing again. I haven't heard anything about Plantation.

 

Is it any surprise oil companies are claiming record profits this year – I think not.

And how does that happen with less oil/gas to sell everyday. It doesn’t cost anymore to process it than yesterday does it?

 

I can understand that prices have increased today for those of us on the eastern side of the country, but what caused the inital raise to be $2.69 for a gallon of regular prior to this? Oil companies trying to see what they can get away with.

The other thing that really bothers me is that gas prices went above $3 a gallon today because of the issues in the Gulf, but once those issues are resolved, are the prices going to go back down to where they were before? The magic 8 ball says....probably not

 

Do you really want an answer.

Everything in life (to get philosophical) goes in cycles. Everything. So it will go down a little and then up to a new high and down a little and up to a new high.

AND, you will get used to it just like your used to paying $2.60 and not complaining, just like we all got used to say $1.60 in the 80s or whatever

Personally, I think once it broke the 50 cent barrier it was lame ....

 

Originally Posted by pyratio

Because the Bush administration is heavily involved with oil companies.

--pyratio


That's not politics - That's a well documented FACT

 

It's really quite simple math, as I explained above. And is no suprise.

Companies are expected to turn a profit for people who invest in them. This is why corporate taxes are really stupid as well. Companies simply pass along costs and maintain a profit MARGIN they grow thier return to shareholders by increasing customer base. No suprise at all...quite expected....And, not a thing wrong with it.

 

And what does that matter? so what?

 

i got an email regarding a national movement to boycott buying gas
on 9/1/05. if you're interested. im not buying gas tomorrow.... well,
my cars have plenty of gas in them already.

 

Pretty much.....besides, Most people still have bad habits (smoking) that cost more than thier gasoline

Around here about 7 years ago when gas was actually 73 cents a gallon...There were all these ma & pa types complaining that $12 a barrel for oil was so low that the couldn't afford to run their pumps and that the low gas prices was forcing people to rely on social security as sole source of income since they planned on these for retirement income

 

HOAX ALERT!

That's just an old recycled hoax. I knew it would come out again. Don't ask me to debunk it any further than that. I researched it at one time and it's most definitely a hoax. Something about everyone skips one day just fill up the next won't affect anything.

 

yeh, so?

 

Do what you want. I was just letting you know that if you buy into that email then you're buying into a hoax and I've got some beach front property to sell you on the Gulf.

 

--Sorry chow4us it's a real sore issue for us Hawaiians because we watched California dip below $2 a gallon after the first gulf war, but Hawaii just stayed aboved $2 and now we're sky rocketing past $3 for no good reason.

I guess in a way we're watching the price gouging happening in New Orleans ($20 for a 12 pack of botted water) and feeling sorry for those people. As we're watching this our gas prices suddenly start to blast up in price and it makes you wonder if the price gouging in New Orleans has actually INSPIRED the oil barons of America to take advantage too. It just makes me wonder if these oil people are human at all. Do they have a conscience or do they simply use a profit chart to make decisions?

As for SUVs they're part of the reason too. They create a higher demand for gas so prices go higher. If everyone drove Minis and scion's or echo's the gas companies would be tripping over themselves to have the lowest prices. But then again I wouldn't want one of those idiot SUV drivers behind a beautiful Mini. They'd end up wrecking it and drive up the prices for parts. SUV people think there isn't a difference between a car and a bumper car. It's all the same to them. Just a big air conditioned tank to house their empty heads and the cell phones surgically attached to their heads while they tool around town.

Anyway, sorry for attaching politics. I won't bring the Bush administration into it again. Don't want to tick off Mr. Cheney. (Read Maxim Magazine, they've got an interesting cartoon of him.) That's all ziiiippppppppp!

--pyratio