Gas prices revisited

[ChadTower]

Good point.  Out in Okie you either tape it up or take it out back and shoot it.

[Stingray]

Unless you're in a hurry. Then you just shoot it.

-S

[jbox]

Of course you guys can go to the hospital without having to file for bankruptcy.

Not that anyone will treat them at the hospital, but they can go there just the same.

No one will treat you here either, unless you have great insurance or happen to be independantly wealthy. Difference being that it doesn't cost anything to be ignored over there.

Unless you count the 5 figures of taxes you pay to provide the nonservice.  At least here you pay for services you use.  There you pay for services you may ask for at some time in the future but probably will not receive.

Why am I arguing about medical care in a thread about gas prices? It's not like I even care.

Yes you do.

[Minwah]

Unless you count the 5 figures of taxes you pay to provide the nonservice.  At least here you pay for services you use.  There you pay for services you may ask for at some time in the future but probably will not receive.

Yeah it's true...I've payed thousands towards the health service and have never got anything back.  If you do ever need medicine you have to pay for that on top anyway which I don't understand.  I actually have something wrong at the moment and have been waiting like 3 months to even receive a letter to say when I have an appointment.  When I receive the letter it will be a matter of waiting further months or years.

No wonder over 1 million people (official figure so probably underestimation) are fu(ked up or killed each year thanks to the neglect of our health service.

[Stingray]

$1.89 this morning.

-S

[Havok]

$1.89 this morning.

-S

Still holding at $2.34 here. (And that's the lowest price in my area - some places are higher)

Sigh...

New York sucks...

[ChadTower]

Yeah it's true...I've payed thousands towards the health service and have never got anything back.

[paigeoliver]

The hybrids really don't impress me since they still barely beat (or don't beat) the gas mileage of the old $6000 Geo Metros. Plus the fact that most Hybrid and electric and otherwise strange cars I have seen look like new versions of the AMC Gremlin.

Basically, Suzuki was making a car that got over 50 MPG over 20 years ago. Why do we need complicated gas and electric motor systems to reach that number today?

We don't. If Suzuki was able to do it from 1985 to 1994 then we could probably do it even better today. Instead what have we seen? A complete dissappearance of the super-high MPG subcompact segment, which was replaced with chintzy looking compacts priced like Caddies.

$2 per gallon is the new $1 per gallon in the US. I predict it is going to hover around that level for another 20 years or so, and then quickly ramp up to $3.

[ChadTower]

A complete dissappearance of the super-high MPG subcompact segment, which was replaced with chintzy looking compacts priced like Caddies.

Any EMT will tell you exactly why those subcompact cars are no longer made.  They are simply not safe on a road full of larger vehicles.

I had a Pontiac t2000 for a few weeks in high school.  It was pretty much one of the cars you're talking about... little triangle hatchback that got strong mileage.

I had it parked and someone hit it going about 30 in a Ford pickup.  The thing practically exploded, parts everywhere.  Anyone in it would have been killed immediately.  A car should be able to stand up to that enough such that a person inside can survive.

[dmsuchy]

I'm almost paying 3 bucks a gallon but thats for diesel, when winter starts diesel prices go up. Has something to do with an additive they have to add so the fuel dosen't gell up caus of the cold. Still dont mind, I get an average of 45 miles to the gallon and I do beleive thats better for the enviroment.
Paige what kind of mileage are you gettin with the scooter? I used to have to fill my wife's once a summer.

[Stingray]

Saw one place this morning that has gas for $1.85. I need to fill up anyway so I'm stopping there on the way home.

-S

[shmokes]

Damn it Chad!!!!  We pay more taxes for health care in America than ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WORLD (except Iceland and Germany).

Public Per Capita Spending (TAXES)
Private Per Capita Spending

[ChadTower]

If that is true, much of it is because county hospitals are treating uninsured illegals that have no obligation to pay and rarely do.

Ask anyone in the California health care system that is about to collapse entirely under the weight of "free" health care for illegal aliens.

[shmokes]

I agree.  If we'd make reasonable health care available to people they wouldn't end up costing the tax payers $700 to have a cold treated in the Emergency Room that could have been treated for $70 at a doctors office.

[ChadTower]

They do have that available on an increasingly common basis.  Many, many places have Urgent Care facilities available that sit empty because no one bothers to go there.  Urgent Care facilities are designed for EXACTLY what you describe... non life threatening health care issues that can be treated far less expensively than at an ER.

I went to an urgent care facility when I injured my knee.  I was in, had X rays, had a decent doctor evaluate me, and was off with crutches and an accurate diagnosis with ZERO WAIT.  I was there less than an hour.

[paigeoliver]

My scooters get between 85 and 130 miles per gallon (the huge variance is due to different driving conditions). Short little hops around town in stop and go traffic is like 85, my commute to work was more like 100, and I got 130 MPG when I took it camping and did nothing but 5 mile or longer trips at a steady 40 with no stops to speak of.

I just filled up the Suburban today, it was $50 and it took forever because the gas pump was going SLOWWWW!

Also, I need to tune up my Metro, my city mileage has dropped to 35 in the past month, although I still get 45 MPG on longer trips.

[shmokes]

My scooters get between 85 and 130 miles per gallon

Pilot error/possible mechanical error.

On thursday I laid my scooter down going about 35-38 miles an hour....there was a huge amount of lost skin.

   Like shooting fish in a barrel.

[paigeoliver]

My scooters get between 85 and 130 miles per gallon

Pilot error/possible mechanical error.

On thursday I laid my scooter down going about 35-38 miles an hour....there was a huge amount of lost skin.

   Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Thankfully I am healed from that now. And now I have two of the scooters. I still haven't FIXED the one I laid down, but I finally got all the parts to do it. Too bad I wasn't able to find them until AFTER I already bought another one.

[ChadTower]

Wait until we get the scooter vs minivan story, if he survives it.