PDA

View Full Version : Are summer gas prices gonna hamper your upgrade plans this summer?

Pages : 1 2 3 [4] 5
TheBlizzard
02-18-2005, 12:43 AM
LP has possibilities, but the prices of that have been going up drastically too. I don't think it will be a viable option any time soon.
Well you work at Bixby, design a car that will run on corn. And I am not talking about E85 either. I am talking about whole corn that you buy in a bag. You know the kind that fucking mouse put everywhere in our garage?:D

CRAIG
LightningGSX
02-18-2005, 09:32 AM
Well you work at Bixby, design a car that will run on corn. And I am not talking about E85 either. I am talking about whole corn that you buy in a bag. You know the kind that fucking mouse put everywhere in our garage?:D

CRAIG
First, you get a bunch of hamsters(JDM hamsters only).Then, you get a big hamster wheel that fits under the hood.....
TheBlizzard
02-18-2005, 09:41 AM
First, you get a bunch of hamsters(JDM hamsters only).Then, you get a big hamster wheel that fits under the hood.....
Thats where them damn mice came from. Our motors, why didn't I think of that. I bet all the DSM's that are here have the motors packed with corn.:D

CRAIG
john
02-20-2005, 02:43 AM
I am hoping they can make hydrogen economical to produce as our next energy source for cars.
JET
02-20-2005, 05:18 AM
Hydrogen has its good an bad points. The emissions from actual combustion are great. The problem is with storage in the vehicle, transport to service stations, and a viable means to seperate the hydrogen. They are starting to get the storage in the vehicle figured out, but there is still a ways to go.

The other thing is the logistics of switching all of the stations over to hydrogen. That would be a massive effort. There would have to be a lot of hydrogen plants around, because they don't think the current pipeline system will work with hydrogen.
john
02-20-2005, 11:19 AM
Yeah, it will take a lot of work in the begining but I never see us running out like we will with gas in 35 years. The resource is very plentifull.
Onefast99gsx
02-22-2005, 09:40 AM
Goto this link. Click on the listen button. Gas could be as high as $3/gallon by summer.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1897385

Gas back up to over $49.00/barrell today already.
AZT
02-22-2005, 10:26 AM
How crazy. However, europe has prices like this anyway. I dont think it will make it any harder to mod my car, just harder to afford driving it.
Onefast99gsx
02-22-2005, 10:36 AM
It's hard to compare the U.S. to other countries unless you compare everything apples-to-apples. Is everything over in Europe in similar price brackets as things here in the states?
JET
02-22-2005, 11:46 AM
The thing with the european countries is that they don't include road taxes in with income tax like we do. Most of them tax gas a lot, which makes sense. If you use the roads more, you are going to use more gas, and pay for the roads more because you use them more. In the US we like to get everybody to pay for everything, so it doesn't work that way here.