Sheldon wrote:
> Puester wrote:
>> sf wrote:
>>> Puester wrote:
>>
>>>> From the hints being given in news reports, we will be at $4 or
>>>> more by midsummer.
>>
>>> Is that for premium or regular?
>>
>> Regular.
>>
>> Do you use premium? Do you listen to the Car Guys on NPR?
>> They say there's no reason to use premium unless you want
>> racetrack performance from a performance car.
>
> That's not true... many engines require premium. Read your owner's
> manual to learn which octane rating to use for your car. There are
> many myths associated with how to maintain an automobile, octane
> ratings is just one... if you use a lower octane rating than is
> prescribed in the owner's manual you will damage your engine and void
> your warranty... it's fairly easy for a trained mechanic to determine
> if an engine has been damaged by using fuel with too low an octane
> rating. But if the owners manual indicates to use regular than by all
> means do so, to use premium in that engine is just a waste of money.
> And in fact driving a high performance car at excessively low rpm for
> protracted periods will damage that engine regardless using the
> correct fuel... kinda stupid to buy a high performance six speed that
> you're ascared to drive at speeds above third gear.
>
> Sheldon

Sheldon is correct. The engine in our car works much more efficiently and
the vehicle gets more miles to the gallon when using premium gas. We
learned that the hard way. Sigh. Since then, we've done the math on it.
We put in regular and the vehicle is less peppy and uses up more fuel, so
although premium is more expensive, we still save about $5 per tank of gas
using premium.

kili

cybercat wrote:
> "wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
> news:_L30i.2506$vX4.1193@trnddc05...
>> "cybercat" > wrote:
>>>
>>> "kilikini" > wrote
>>>> Thanks! I wish we had a smaller car, but there's no way around
>>>> it. He needs it. We really suffer on our trips up to my doctor's
>>>> office; he takes
>>>> a day off of work and what we spend in gas (because my doctor is 5
>>>> hours away), he would have made up for at his job. It's like we
>>>> doubly lose with
>>>> gas prices and loss of income. But, what are you going to do?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You'll get better, get a job, buy a little car. Problem solved.
>>
>> Well, maybe not solved. Her husband still needs the SUV and needs to
>> drive it long distances. I'm sure he'd still like cheaper gas. A
>> little car would help on the nonwork driving, as long as the costs
>> don't exceed the savings in gas. That's where the "but what are you
>> going to do?" comes in.
>>
>> I wish the people that really don't need to be burning a scarce
>> commodity didn't, so it wouldn't run up the price for those who do
>> need it. Sometimes the greatest burdens fall on those least able to
>> cope with them.
>>
>
> She'll get better, get a job, buy a little car, and that will help a
> great deal.
> Like that better?

Wish we could afford a little car. But I do hope I get better! Thanks for
that! Monday is my next appointment and I go for another CT scan. Keep
your fingers crossed for me! :~)

kili

"cybercat" > wrote in message
...

<snip>
> As for the car stuff, and the money stuff, I am married to a "ooo nooo,
> we don't have enough money, where can we cut baaaaaack" kinda
> guy.
>
> My solution is always, "Cut back hell, let's make more money." I
> know it is not possible for everyone to do this, but it is for many.
<snip>

And then there was the dowager who couldn't understand why people complained
about the increase in grocery prices. "Just take more money to the store,"
she advised.

Felice

cybercat wrote:
> "kilikini" > wrote
>>
>> Wish we could afford a little car. But I do hope I get better!
>> Thanks for
>> that! Monday is my next appointment and I go for another CT scan.
>> Keep your fingers crossed for me! :~)
>>
>
> I am. Your condition is always in the back of my mind. Life is hard
> enough without shit like that broadsiding you, especially when you are
> so young.
>
> As for the car stuff, and the money stuff, I am married to a "ooo
> nooo, we don't have enough money, where can we cut baaaaaack" kinda
> guy.
>
> My solution is always, "Cut back hell, let's make more money." I
> know it is not possible for everyone to do this, but it is for many.
>
> I see you getting well. Your life has barely begun.
>
> Re cars: I want a Prius! They are cute and weird looking hybrids!

Thank you, sweetie!

kili

Felice Friese wrote:

> And then there was the dowager who couldn't understand why people
complained
> about the increase in grocery prices. "Just take more money to the store,"
> she advised.


Reminds me of a comment I saw the other day about the "low profit margins"
that food retailers are always bringing up, somebody said, "Yeah, they may
only have a 1 or 2% profit margin but food expenditures are one of THE
major expenditures that people make, that "small" profit margin adds up
after a whiles...".

As for the "dowager" comment it reminds me of Nancy Reagan when she was
asked about the problem of homelessness: "Those people should just get a
home...".

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Greg

"Felice Friese" > wrote:
> And then there was the dowager who couldn't understand why people complained
> about the increase in grocery prices. "Just take more money to the store," she
> advised.

Reminds me of the time I was with my sister and my nieces (not my sister's
children). She was buying them some toys using her credit card. The one niece,
seeing that my sister didn't pay with cash, suggested we go back to get more
stuff, as it didn't cost any money. Such is the mind of an eight year old. The
frightening thing is more than a few adults think the same way.

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On Tue, 08 May 2007 16:09:58 GMT, Puester >
wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 May 2007 15:52:47 GMT, Puester >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> From the hints being given in news reports, we will be at $4 or more by
>>> midsummer.
>>
>>
>> Is that for premium or regular?
>>
>
>
>Regular.
>
>Do you use premium? Do you listen to the Car Guys on NPR?
>They say there's no reason to use premium unless you want
>racetrack performance from a performance car.
>
I don't put premium in a car the manufacture says is built to run on
regular. My car requires premium.

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Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan wrote:
>
>
>
> I don't like little cars, never have. I don't like those giant boats
> people drive around either. I have a 9 year old Jeep Cherokee and it gets
> great gas mileage. I don't drive many miles weekly (eveything I do is
> pretty much close to home) a lot so I fill the tank up maybe 2x a month at
> most. Steven has a Jeep Grand Cherokee with an eight cylinder engine. I
> have no clue what the difference between his 8 cylinder and my 6 cylinder
> engine has regarding gas consumption. I do know Steven's Jeep is a total
> gas hog and he fills it at least once a week and maybe 5-6 times a month.


And a Cherokee is not a huge vehicle to transport one person?
I like small car. I like being able to slip into small parking spaces and
have room to spare. I like getting 40 plus MPG. I like being able to pull
into a gas station and pay less for two weeks of driving that most others
are paying weekly.




>
> Ob Breakfast:
>
> Scrambled eggbeaters, a toasted musgovian piece of rye, V8 juice, coffee,
> meds and my One A Day Vitaman w/Cholesterol Plus, and a baby aspirin.

Muffets with sliced banana and brown sugar, latte and toasted Calibarese
bread with honey.

Dave Smith wrote:

> Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't like little cars, never have. I don't like those giant
> > boats people drive around either. I have a 9 year old Jeep
> > Cherokee and it gets great gas mileage.

> And a Cherokee is not a huge vehicle to transport one person?

It's not that bad, especially compared to something like my Bronco.




Brian

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won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan wrote:
>
>
>
> I can only imagine what a typical family has to pay in gas. 2 working
> parents that commute and then running the kids all over the place to events
> etc... ////THUD


It looks good on a lot of them for all the needless running around they do.
As I mentioned the other day I was watching a news report out of Detroit
that included an interview with a woman, who BTW does not "work outside of
the home", whose family has three cars, one for her, one for her husband to
commute to work, and one for their teenage daughter. She was whining about
how much it was going to cost. In another segment they interviewed a man
bicycling the 4 miles to work to beat the high cost of fuel. There he was
pedalling away down a street in the middle of the city lined with SUVs.

"Dave Smith" > wrote:
> And a Cherokee is not a huge vehicle to transport one person?
> I like small car. I like being able to slip into small parking spaces and
> have room to spare. I like getting 40 plus MPG. I like being able to pull
> into a gas station and pay less for two weeks of driving that most others
> are paying weekly.

I like small cars too. But even today's small cars are huge compared to some of
the cars that were running around my neighborhood in Philadelphia when I was a
kid.

The American public is under the mistaken impression that the current Mini is a
small car. They are wrong. The current Mini:
http://tinyurl.com/397eyq

The original 1959 (Austin) Mini was a much smaller car:
http://tinyurl.com/38rlq7

But even the old Mini is much larger than the current Smart car:
http://tinyurl.com/38s3rn

And as hard as it is to believe, the Smart car is a big car compared to the BMW
Isetta of the mid 1950s:
http://tinyurl.com/3apv4j
http://tinyurl.com/2jdnpa

There was one BMW Isetta in my neighborhood. I just love the way you get into
it. It is so cute!

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Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> "cybercat" > :
>
>> I am. Your condition is always in the back of my mind. Life is hard
>> enough without shit like that broadsiding you, especially when you
>> are so young.
>
> We think about Christy a lot. A couple of other friends of ours do
> too. We were at a cocktail party that Steven had to attend for work a
> couple of weeks ago. Steven's cousin cornered me at the party and
> inquired about Christy. Christy has a lot of friends she has never
> met, right here in St. Louis. Barb has a friend we think about a lot
> as well.
>
> Michael

Thanks, Michael. I'll most likely give you a call on Tuesday or Wednesday
when we return from the Mayo to let you know what they found - hopefully
nothing!

kili