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Originally Posted by tw
Nonsense. Gasoline at $5 per gallon is cheap. plthijinx's V-6 does 18 MPG. What I got with a carbureted in-line six even after I designed and upgraded it with an electronic ignition ... in 1970. Forty years later and technology is no better? Exactly. Because gasoline even at $7 per gallon is so cheap.
One can ‘feel’ it is expensive. Or one can be politically incorrect, blunt, and honest. Make a decision after learning facts and numbers. Your feelings are irrelevant. (Resistance is futile. Think outside the cube.) Facts are always more important. Gasoline is so ridiculously cheap that more than eight of every 10 gallons burned in a vehicle do nothing useful. More then 8 out of every ten gallons only create heat, pollutants, and noise. Because gasoline at $10 per gallon is so ridiculously cheap.
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Yeah, it does feel expensive, especially to those of us with long commutes and no public transportation.
Just another way we get screwed, in addition to making cars that suggest 30 mpg is a great deal, and the best you're going to find (when 50 mpg was easily found 15 years ago) we're supposed to feel oh so lucky that we don't have to pay 40 bucks for a gallon of gas, like in some countries where no one drives and public transport is the law of the land.
Bend over. Someone out there is not hurting from these prices, not hurtin' a'tall.
It ain't us working class, though.