Kind of a cool post.
I bought my first car back in 1985 when I was 16. I was making $3.15 and probably paying less than a buck for a gallon of gas. The car got somewhere between 40 and 50 mpg. I can't understand why the new cars are only getting 30 to 32 mpg. It seems like those older cars did better in that regard. Also, everybody seems excited about 32mg. Maybe it has to do with emissions and that is the best they can do. My 2006 Ford F150 gets around 20mpg and now I am paying $4.00. I have a motorcycle to ease the hurt. I prefer riding it anyways.
This car was great for the money. It was a great kid car. It was rust brown and upon further review it has quite a bit of rust on it. It took it 4 wheeling, had races with it, took it apart and put it back together and it still kept on running. Some of my car friends were surprised. Especially since I didn't know anything about cars.
The Dems solution to the gas probs sux because they never say what there solution is (because there solution is to destroy the country). If we drilled back in the 90’s like we should have maybe we wouldn't be talking about this.
When I was on the train on my way to Lackland, we passed through a village in Missouri and I noticed a price war going on between two gas stations. One was selling gas for .11/9 and the other guy was peddling his for .12/9.
My last tour of duty was in Havana (93-97) and that was hog heaven for a guy like me, born/raised in Motown and a car nut when I was in high school.
Hell I forgot to say what kind of car it was. 1976 Honda civic brown and plenty of rust. I paid $250 for it.