What will you do if gas hits $5 ?

[72Satellite440]

Now 62 Savoy - if I fill your car- but I get to take her for a rip : p

Seems as though noone is going to stop driving mopars cause of the gas- just slow down a bit

 

[GTXKen]

I drive the GTX maybe 5000 miles a year....

so 5000miles/5 MPG = 1000 gal x extra $2.00 = $2000

.... I will do $2000 less of something else

 

[shag766]

there is no replacement for displacement:headbang:

go back to the old days in the sixties, stealing gas from cement trucks not far away. if i could just remember how we did it.:icon_weed:

 

[69clone]

there is no replacement for displacement:headbang:

go back to the old days in the sixties, stealing gas from cement trucks not far away. if i could just remember how we did it.:icon_weed:

Yeah that would work if I wasn't the only one in town with an old purple car... Any witnesses and I'm screwed lol at least back then there were alot more.

 

[burntorange70]

I will still drive my car as much as I alwas have. Getting harder and harder to save money for my projects though. The price of every thing is going up. Will be going out to Glamis less now. It was costing me $200 in fule to get out there have my fun and come back home and that was before gas went up.

 

[SirSixPack]

Won't change much for me.

My musclecars only get driven on weekends anyhow. During the workweek, I drive a company vehicle on company fuel.

Doesn't matter if gas is $1.00 or $10.00 a gallon, it won't make much diff to me.

 

[AMC PackRat]

The Ratmobile is parked :icon_frown:, I'm swapping in an AW4 OD Jeep trans in my Donohue Javelin this spring, and I'm looking at a 72 318 Scamp for a daily driver. I'll be cutting the number of car shows/swap meets I go to in half, too. The poor get poorer, I suppose . . . . .

 

[ilm65]

$5 a gallon.

I agree with Satellite65--This is a hobby--if the price of golf goes up, you don't buy cheaper balls or drivers; doing so would compromise your game: Go with the big block--hell, stick a 500 stroker motor in there and go race bow ties and blue ovals to offset the $5 a gallon (my correction: 93 octane will be $5.85 a gallon)

God bless the U.S.A.

All gave some, some gave all.

 

[1962savoy]

Now 62 Savoy - if I fill your car- but I get to take her for a rip : p

Seems as though noone is going to stop driving mopars cause of the gas- just slow down a bit

Sure you can.. fill er up!
SLOW DOWN????????.....HELL NO!!! I'll be drivin between gas stations!:blob1:

 

[Aussie Coronet]

I'll stop when it's $3000 a gallon, until then, I'm drivin'!

 

[Rippin]

I'll adjust somewhere else, not letting anything rob me of my cars. They'll have to pry my cold, dead hands off the wheel of my mopars if they want me in some Volt crap!

 

[anmracing]

Well, now that I don't have to spend $50 on a 5 gallon can of 100 proof race gas, I'm happy we are still in the $2.50-3.00 area. For now anyways....

We are always close behind Cali with their gas prices but if it gets to the $3.50-4.00 range my guess is that there will be a lot of squakin just like last time. The gas companies really have us by the balls. They raise the price real high at once let us bitch and then lower it, then they slowly raise it to where they had it anyways. What a bunch of who-haa...

But what can we do, the government is behind them 100%. They pretend they aren't but I know better.... LOL!!!!

 

[Satellite65]

Well, now that I don't have to spend $50 on a 5 gallon can of 100 proof race gas, I'm happy we are still in the $2.50-3.00 area. For now anyways....

We are always close behind Cali with their gas prices but if it gets to the $3.50-4.00 range my guess is that there will be a lot of squakin just like last time. The gas companies really have us by the balls. They raise the price real high at once let us bitch and then lower it, then they slowly raise it to where they had it anyways. What a bunch of who-haa...

But what can we do, the government is behind them 100%. They pretend they aren't but I know better.... LOL!!!!

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!!

Yep, that's EXACTLY what they do

 

[1962savoy]

The higher the price the more taxes collected by the Feds!SO,...there s NO WAY the government will step it on this lucritive game but they will step in to bail out the idiots in the Banks!!!

 

[fwi]

Remember what happened to gas prices overnight, when Bush said we were going to start drilling?
Of course this communist bunch will never do that, they are reveling in all of this!

 

[anmracing]

Remember what happened to gas prices overnight, when Bush said we were going to start drilling?
Of course this communist bunch will never do that, they are reveling in all of this!

Yuppers!!!!

 

[RGAZ]

Just my opinion, so keep the flames to yourself:

From an inflation standpoint, $5 gas is cheap. As a percentage of your income, it can make a dent, but does it really make it that hard on you? I know if you are scraping by it is hard, but you have a very expensive hobby car, so an extra $50 at fillup is going to break you? I don't think so. What it WILL do it influence a large part of the average americans also known as "sheeple".

The good news: the general populace will flock (pun intended) to high efficiency cars, prius, volt, leaf, etc. The demand for gas in the US will drop as the usage drops. The US has used less and less gasoline every year for many years. Baby boomers will die in droves and the net for the US will result in gas being stable or down long term.

The developing countries will be the problem. If they grow-up like the US did, then their demand will outstrip supply and drive our price up. This will continue the trend towards the average american being forced into high effciency or away from gasoline. The average teen today has no interest in cars and will likely live in a city with public transportation. They are not like us, but will be running the world soon, and will implement what they learn. They are being bombarded daily by "oil is bad" "green is good" which is not the case in many instances.

The end result, gasoline will eventually become harder to find, but it will be reasonably priced. The US won't tax it much, since it will not bring in enough money. The few and far between gas-powered vehicles which most people will refer to as "quaint" will be back in vogue and only true car people will have them. Like us. Regulations will force us to drive them infrequently and it is likley we will be looked down upon as social puriahs or crazy old people. Get used to that.

In the end, the transportation world will change, and it is likley it will change away from the "car" as an American symbol of freedom, to a "car" as a commodity or necessary evil to be avoided.

I do not look forward to that day, but I see it getting closer...

Randy

 

[Ron 73]

Dont mind at all. Its my wallpaper also.

Tanks much.. no pun intended..

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

$4.39-$4.445 for diesel here in NY and $3.79 for regular. JUst cost me $100.00 to fill up my work van. Compared to last year at $42.00
Going to cost me $175.00 to drive roundtrip to the track with my diesel pickup truck and trailer if it stays at this price.
If I'm a betting man $4.50 a gallon for regular by Memorial Day and close to $5.00 by July 4th.

 

[Bigblock3]

After a nice cruise on a beautiful day in a classic mopar the cost of gas isn't a concern.




It's when i'm in my daily driver that i'm screaming about it. LOL