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How much was your last fill up?

Henri Gaudier said:
Hello LeahM - I don't know what to ask without appearing rude or daft! I just wondered what it was like to be on a reservation. Is it a vibrant place with tradition and soul or modern and downcast? In the weekend papers there's occasionally articles about reservation life and it's always negative. I think it was at Pineridge where I read about a drug I'd never heard of before called Nazi Crank or something. Just wondered how you and your family are. You know ... straight from the horses mouth. Sorry .. shouldn't have enquired.:eek:
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haha, its ok. Well, its definitely full of history. It’s a gorgeous place to live, lots of trees wetlands, animals, birds. We’re a tight community, where I live, unfortunately, we don’t’ have a highschool, we have 4 elementary schools though. But even though we don’t have a highschool, we’re still pretty close, even if we don’t hang out with the same group, we still generally watch out for each other. Which is really nice. Right now we’re working on getting our language back, there are a lot of community initiatives. There is a school locally that is very small but from Pre-K to grade 6 everything is learned and taught in the Mohawk Language. And then in grades 7 & 8, they learn to read in English and pretty much prep for high school. I went to school there and you’d be surprised in that when we went to highschool, we were all honor roll members. Sorry, I really don’t know what you want to know. If you have questions, you can message me.
 
I put $50 worth of diesel ($3.999/gal) in my personal pickup. Its the first time I've put fuel in it since October :)

Drive someone else's vehicle and make them pay for the fuel!
 
leekohler said:
Nothing. Move to a city with good public transportation. Stop giving the oil companies your money. I haven't owned a car in almost a decade, and I can't tell you how free it makes you feel.
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After living the last 4 years without a car I can't tell you how free it makes me feel to be able to go wherever I want, whenever I want, and by whatever route I want. (Although I'm not sure how good Seattle public trasportation is classified as)

Cost 49.09 to fill up my Civic a few days ago (at 3.80/gal)
 
Seattle transportation is ok.

Everyone wants to expand it but no one wants the improvements to be made near where they live. They also don't want to pay for it.

Then to make it worse they come up with stupid local ideas that won't help the whole region. Like the monorail from Crown Hill to West Seattle. I think you guys finally got to stop paying for that bad idea last year.

I moved to Colorado Springs, its nice not having to fight traffic to go to the grocery store at 5pm :)
 
UWSpindoctor said:
After living the last 4 years without a car I can't tell you how free it makes me feel to be able to go wherever I want, whenever I want, and by whatever route I want. (Although I'm not sure how good Seattle public trasportation is classified as)

Cost 49.09 to fill up my Civic a few days ago (at 3.80/gal)
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Well, it's different when you can get anywhere you want quickly without a car. I have access to several different bus routes one block from my house, and the L train is 4 blocks away. Plus there are countless restaurants, grocery stores, bars, bowling alleys, shoe and clothing stores all within walking distance of my place. That is why I never even think about owning a car.
 
$94.75 in my Land Rover Discovery 4.0 V8 using premium.

She's pretty thirsty. 14mpg thirsty.
 
silbeej said:
Yeah, doesn't the UK have the most expensive fuel in Europe? Or at least close to it.
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Dunno but it's pretty expensive.

About £1.10 per litre - at 3.78 litres per US gallon that is £4.15 per US gallon, which is $8.31 per US gallon.

Think of that next time any of you are feeling ripped off at the pump. :p

Maybe if/when prices hit the US at those rates people will change perspective on what is truly necessary for a vehicle. The only way to inspire people to change is to hit them where it hurts, and that's usually the wallet.

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ErikCLDR said:
$94.75 in my Land Rover Discovery 4.0 V8 using premium.

She's pretty thirsty. 14mpg thirsty.
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how proud you must be :rolleyes:
 
iBlue said:
Dunno but it's pretty expensive.

About £1.10 per litre - at 3.78 litres per US gallon that is £4.15 per US gallon, which is $8.31 per US gallon.

Think of that next time any of you are feeling ripped off at the pump. :p

Maybe if/when prices hit the US at those rates people will change perspective on what is truly necessary for a vehicle. The only way to inspire people to change is to hit them where it hurts, and that's usually the wallet.

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how proud you must be :rolleyes:
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as it was pointed out before higher gas prices hurt the US a lot more than Europe.

Good example is how many Miles/Km do you drive a year. In the use 15,000 m/24000Km is fairly common. I am on tracked to do over 12,000 miles this year. Compare to Europe it is a lot higher than the drivers over there.

Also remembers goods have to be transported a lot farther in the US to reach the population. The density in the US is a lot less than over in Europe
 
Rodimus Prime said:
as it was pointed out before higher gas prices hurt the US a lot more than Europe.

Good example is how many Miles/Km do you drive a year. In the use 15,000 m/24000Km is fairly common. I am on tracked to do over 12,000 miles this year. Compare to Europe it is a lot higher than the drivers over there.

Also remembers goods have to be transported a lot farther in the US to reach the population. The density in the US is a lot less than over in Europe
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I understand the why's and the implications of high prices between the US and Europe, I was just talking numbers and logistics of the vehicles. Most people don't need fuel hog vehicles and many perspectives will change once it puts the grip on the old wallet. A person's concept of what is truly necessary changes dramatically when the prices have more of an impact.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Good example is how many Miles/Km do you drive a year. In the use 15,000 m/24000Km is fairly common. I am on tracked to do over 12,000 miles this year. Compare to Europe it is a lot higher than the drivers over there.
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I think the average annual mileage is 10,000 - 12,000 miles in Europe.
 
bartelby said:
I think the average annual mileage is 10,000 - 12,000 miles in Europe.
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Hell I don't even drive that regularly but rack up close to 8,000 miles in a year. My dad's car goes through about 24,000 miles in a year (good job it is free diesel).
 
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