A lifetime 1st....

I'm thankful that my little Maverick hybrid truck gets over 40 mpg in mixed driving and 36 mpg on highway road trips. And with the electric motors it has pretty decent acceleration when I need it. When we moved from FL to TX I used it to tow a 8x10 UHaul trailer and we got 27 mpg on the highway.

My last fillup at Costco for a little over 1/2 tank was $27.

I had breakfast this morning with a friend who just bought a travel trailer to tow behind his pickup... not the greatest of timing but not my circus.
 
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Sorcerer said:
Walk? Horse and buggy?
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Honda Civic. :)

I can't wait for the sad posts on personal finance-related news articles about people who are struggling with $800 truck payments because they HAD to have a big, shiny new truck to make them feel important, but didn't consider the possibility that the price of gas may increase.
 
athena53 said:
Honda Civic. :)

I can't wait for the sad posts on personal finance-related news articles about people who are struggling with $800 truck payments because they HAD to have a big, shiny new truck to make them feel important, but didn't consider the possibility that the price of gas may increase.
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Car debt is a big thing right now. Many people are well underwater in their car loans, and unable to trade down if they wanted to.

 
Aerides said:
Car debt is a big thing right now. Many people are well underwater in their car loans, and unable to trade down if they wanted to.
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Too true. There was a piece in the WSJ the other day about a lot of people who are (believe it or not) tens of thousands underwater on their car loans. Some of them will undoubtedly just walk away from those, so it's a serious problem.
 
silvor said:
If there was only a way to reduce gas consumption and take the pressure off gas prices.

Hint: RTO
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I mean, I rode my bike, but I drove a couple hours each way to ride it in that particular location. ;)

Ultimately, I worked hard and saved so I don't have to worry about the price of a gallon of gas.
 
athena53 said:
Honda Civic. :)

I can't wait for the sad posts on personal finance-related news articles about people who are struggling with $800 truck payments because they HAD to have a big, shiny new truck to make them feel important, but didn't consider the possibility that the price of gas may increase.
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My shiny new truck payment is only $450. I wrote a check for the other half, when I bought it. It isn't costing me anything to pay it over time, as long as MM rates stay about where they are now, and my credit rating needed a little pick-me-up after being debt free all those years.
 
athena53 said:
Honda Civic. :)

I can't wait for the sad posts on personal finance-related news articles about people who are struggling with $800 truck payments because they HAD to have a big, shiny new truck to make them feel important, but didn't consider the possibility that the price of gas may increase.
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When I bought my new F-150, with 36 gallon gas tank, back in 2015, I just had a single truck payment to deal with.
Mid five figures, of course...
 
Sorcerer said:
You're paying something, whether its fuel, electricity, installed solar panels, heating oil, propane, natural gas, windmill, etc etc. There is no free lunch, only the illusion of such.
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No on all 7 of your guesses.

Why does me getting free fuel annoy you?
 
Mr. Tightwad said:
Haven't paid for automotive fuel in 8 years.
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I haven't bought a new car in 20 years. And I don't drive that much, so I can deal with the tiny part of my budget that is for gas, which just jumped to $4.799 here. I'm trying to cut back on driving even more now, with these prices.

Sadly, as others have said, it's factoring into the price of everything else. Amazon started charging their third party sellers a surcharge due to fuel prices. Guess who they are passing those costs on to?
 
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marko said:
Try filling it up every morning. Wouldn't hurt so bad.
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The cumulative hurt is the same, whether you fill up everyday or when it gets to 1/4 full.

You're just incurring a bunch of little bills, instead of fewer but larger bills.

Arguably, filling up your tank every day will get you slightly worse gas mileage as your car/truck weighs more.
 
Dalton said:
I mean, I rode my bike, but I drove a couple hours each way to ride it in that particular location. ;)

Ultimately, I worked hard and saved so I don't have to worry about the price of a gallon of gas.
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I don't "worry" about it, and it will make zero impact to the health of my retirement.

But I don't like it, and I'd prefer to fill my tank for $55 instead of $75, just as I did a few months ago. I'm not going to like it anymore when I factor in how much everything now costs to account for the cost of transportation.
 
My 2009 F-150 had a 36 gallon tank. So it was common back in those days to get to the $100 pump cut off. Haven't got to $100 in my 2017 F-150 yet.
 
A typical fill-up for me is around 10 gallons, so if the price goes up by a dollar, that's an additional $10 per tankful. I don't buy gas very often, so it's certainly not going to change my driving habits.
With my PHEV I get almost all local errands done on battery power and charge at home for less than 6¢ per mile.
 
pb4uski said:
^^^ Perhaps because you're being a jerk about it?
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On a thread about the high cost of automotive fuel, I point out that I pay nothing. Obviously it can be done by others who wish to.

So I pay nothing, and let the other fellow know none of his assumptions were correct.

And that is jerk behavior to you?
 
athena53 said:
Honda Civic. :)

I can't wait for the sad posts on personal finance-related news articles about people who are struggling with $800 truck payments because they HAD to have a big, shiny new truck to make them feel important, but didn't consider the possibility that the price of gas may increase.
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Fortunately, people that have trucks in my neck of the woods actually use them as trucks. Unlike, places like Dallas where people buy upgraded trucks just to go to the mall.

We were the land of Soccer Moms in Suburbans until 2008-2009 fuel prices. Now, seeing a Suburban is rare as we've become the land of Teslas, Toyotas, BMWs (on lease), Rivians, Jeep Rubicons and Range Rovers (when they're not in for repair).
 
Dalton said:
My shiny new truck payment is only $450. <snip>
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The last car payment I had was for a 1973 Porsche 911 in 1985. Every car since than has been cash. That was about $160/mo which was slighty more than my house payment. But $450 is cheap by todays standards.
 
RetiredAt55.5 said:
The cumulative hurt is the same, whether you fill up everyday or when it gets to 1/4 full.

You're just incurring a bunch of little bills, instead of fewer but larger bills.

Arguably, filling up your tank every day will get you slightly worse gas mileage as your car/truck weighs more.
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Ummm....my comment was meant as satire.
 
Last year I was in the middle of my never ending interstate move and going back and forth frequently (at 1K+ miles per trip). Spent almost $7K in fuel for 2025 at a much lower cost per gallon. Glad I am done with that! I just checked quicken and my last fill up was 4/12 (on both vehicles trying to get ahead of price jumps) and I have > 1/2 tank left on one and 3/4 on the other. These days I have to remember to rotate vehicle usage to make sure they both get run and to keep the batteries charged.
 
COcheesehead said:
Just drove from CO to CA.
Gas was in the $4’s in CO
$5’s in UT and NV
$6’s in CA.
I think the most I paid was $6.79
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We got back from Utah to MI 10 days ago. Paid low 4’s in Utah and high 3’s in CO.
 
Mr. Tightwad said:
On a thread about the high cost of automotive fuel, I point out that I pay nothing. Obviously it can be done by others who wish to.

So I pay nothing, and let the other fellow know none of his assumptions were correct.

And that is jerk behavior to you?
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Yes.
 
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