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I live in Minnesota and our local Costco still had premium for $2.99 tonight -- you should have seen the line of monster SUVs filling up (average is around $3.30 here now).

Just to make you all feel better, there was an article in the paper here today about a strong decline in boat traffic on the rivers and lakes. They talked to one guy who owned a yacht where gas was $4.00 a gallon. The kicker is his boat has dual 250 HP motors and he gets 1 MPH. The boat has a 300 gallon tank.

Ouch! :confused:

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/535061.html

Yeah we have duel jet skis, boy do they ever suck gas! I totally understand why I wouldn't want to take it out because is expensive which makes the trip so much more expensive.

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Originally Posted by SANguru

are you shitting me?? gas was never 1.04 not even in 2001. the last time we saw gas prices that low, your mom was still burping your ass.

:iagree:

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Originally Posted by blondboinsd

Yeah we have duel jet skis, boy do they ever suck gas! I totally understand why I wouldn't want to take it out because is expensive which makes the trip so much more expensive.

Tell me about it! Try installing water injectors on the carbs or get a stroke converter. The other thing is you can run them in tandem so one drafts the other one, kind of like a bike racer...saves a TON of gas!

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Originally Posted by blondboinsd

I read today gas prices hit an all time high! BTW C anymore stallings?

Shhh...no more stalls. I been talking real nice to her..she's been a good girl.

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Originally Posted by blondboinsd

I swear prices were like 1.04 for the cheap stuff back in 2001, maybe I remember incorrect, but weren't they right around 1.00 a gallon or am I totally mistaken?

Not in 2001, It was 1.10 when I was 15 which was in the early 90's. Gas prices didn't hit an all time high, oil per barrel did. These are two very different things because all oil is not refined to gasoline. Please remember you are also in the peak driving season of summer now and the marketing/sales and econ departments of Shell, Exxon/Mobil, BP and others will take advantage of America's need to move. Also, having an on going war take a ton of fuel as well (just look up the MPG of a Bradley or Abrams and you'll see).

If you really give a rats @ss about gas prices, write congress about why we are not pushing, with full force, alternative fuels like E85 and other bio-mass fuels....why are we waiting till 2015 for this type of production....

And if you don't write congress and vote about this then don't discuss it, you lose the privelage....at least in the states.

Current UK price around here equates to about $7.65 per UK Gallon. You've got a little way to go yet...........;)

...biting tounge....

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Originally Posted by SANguru

that's the dumbest shit I've heard all day especially when oil prices continue to hit record highs on daily basis. Doesn't seem so bad?? you've seriously got common sense and IQ of a rock. :loco:

:doh: :takecover !ouch: ;owned; :spank: :bustingup

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Originally Posted by SANguru

that's the dumbest shit I've heard all day especially when oil prices continue to hit record highs on daily basis. Doesn't seem so bad?? you've seriously got common sense and IQ of a rock. :loco:

Hey Josh, why don't you tell us what you really think? ;)