I just had some dumb*ss get all PO'd at me because I was doing 62 in a 60 MPH zone (instead of my usual 65-70). I guess he wanted to go 75. He floored it around me and said some crap. Him getting that worked up didn't bother me tho. It's not my blood pressure!

People kill me! On the freeway exit ramps I love how people in their little tiny cars ride your tail as you coast to a stop. I guess they like to slam on their brakes at the last second...morons. If I did that in my TRUCK I'd need new brakes every 6 months!

 

yesterday on the way to school 7:00 gas was 3.06 on the way home at 2:20 it was 3.39 how in the hell can they do this and im sure its gone up another .50 by now we have to put an end to this, im just waiting until im 20 and gas is going to be $10 a gallon probaly more

 

3.40 here in Mi. And the station manager had to lay off the third shift crew due to the rising rate of drive offs. He also tole me that his starion will probably run out of fuel, and not recieve any for a while.

 

its about 4.50 here right now..... it will go down once things go back to normal and we get some oil that is being given to us by other countries.... because if these prices keep up like this.... the economy will go into a recession.... later on then the depression will come but highly unlikely but don't stop buying gas because of prices the recession will just come faster...... basically for those of you who don't know.... a recession is bad..... the economy collapses on itself...... won't be as bad as the depression in 1929...... the u.s found a way to get out of a depression.... its hard though...... once the oil refineries are back open down south..... the prices will hit record lows for a day or two. its about 145 dollars to fill up our tank. and we can only hope the prices will not jump to 10 dollars then your just asking for a economic collapse. there is so much oil in alaska to last us 60 years but we can't touch the land... oil refineries aren't that dirty anyways. and blackandredwarrior..... trucks around here on interstates and other highways are pushing 80. the faster you go the better fuel efficent it is.... 72mph is peak (top) mph for most cars my truck gets 15 mpg.

 

today was 3.55 at cumberlands for regular, and then one little station stayed loyal and didn't raise prices and charged 2.50 for reg.

 

LMFAO. OMG. You're too funny. You're generally most efficient in the top gear, where you produce the least amount of horsepower to maintain speed. For every 5MPH over 60, you lose 10 percent fuel economy. There was a reason that the speed limit usesd to be set at 55MPH nationwide. That's about as fuel efficient as you can get. You're turning enough RPMs in the highest gear to not be bogging the motor.

You have to move the vehicle through the air wich is a fluid. You have to produce enough power to actually displace that air. The faster you go, the more air you must displace so you have to make more power. And you use a LOT of fuel to make that power. An extreme example is a boat. It takes like double the horsepower to make a boat go 10MPH faster.

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Their isnt a exacpt speed where everyones vehicle will be most efficent. IT all depends on a vehicle...... 60 mph isnt some magical number that lets us get great gas milage, its about as fast as old people can go without getting into pile ups [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

we drove to the middle of maine in a ford mini van from southern pa on only 3/4 tank of gas and we probaly where going about 74-78 mph the whole time at less than 2000rpm so diffrent speeds in diffrent cars will get beter gas mileage i know for a fact that diffrent cars get beter milage at diffrent speeds because we made the same trip last year in a chevy astro going about the same speed and i remember filling up a couple times

 

3.19 for crapy gas and rising still no stations open this late aroudn here tho

 

Down today

3:29