To: dakine
"1200 mile round trip, 15 MPG = 80 gallons...Yep, that extra $80 is going to change folks' plans. If it does, they need to stay home and work...."
Look at it this way - average family with two cars putting on a total of 30k per year, and each car averaging 20 mpg, an increase from $2.50 to $3.00 results in an extra $750 dollars in yearly gas costs.
That's a weeks pay for a lot of people.
// 40mpg Civic and 30mpg Accord owner
/ It's conservative to "conserve"
34 posted on
03/28/2006 12:46:20 PM PST by
crv16
To: crv16
"average family with two cars putting on a total of 30k per year, and each car averaging 20 mpg, an increase from $2.50 to $3.00 results in an extra $750 dollars in yearly gas costs."
Just an ignorant observation here, but it seems as long as the economy seems to absorb this 60 to 66 dollar a barrel, I don't see it EVER coming down to 35 or 40. Why would it? (Just an education from a small college in marketing/advertising and Bus/admin.)
36 posted on
03/28/2006 12:55:49 PM PST by
poobear
(Islam - A Global Lynch Mob !)
To: crv16
2 cars, 30k miles a year each? Then $750 better not be a week's pay...
43 posted on
03/28/2006 1:05:25 PM PST by
dakine
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