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Brentbba said:
Nice car for men comfortable with there heterosexual behavior too!
...and don't anybody try to correct this. I will find you. ;)
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I had a first gen Miata for 14 years. got it in 90 for 10k, sold it in 04 for 4k. That's value for the dollar.

I have no problem with my masculinity. sometimes I wear pink shirts!


:grinpimp:
 
Never thought I'd see the end of the era of the American Road Trip. Imagine that...our kids growing up and saying "Wait a minute...so, when you were my age, you could afford to just drive around the country?"
"It's what young people did when they didn't have much money to travel. We called 'em road trips, man. Get in the car and go."
"That's just crazy."
 
Shahram said:
Never thought I'd see the end of the era of the American Road Trip. Imagine that...our kids growing up and saying "Wait a minute...so, when you were my age, you could afford to just drive around the country?"
"It's what young people did when they didn't have much money to travel. We called 'em road trips, man. Get in the car and go."
"That's just crazy."
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I was thinking this exact thing the other day. When I was 16-20 we would jump in the car and drive from L.A. to San Diego or Santa Barbara, or Monterey, San Francisco, Vegas one time we went to Denver.

Of course gas was 90 cents a gallon then.

I can't believe that is going to be a thing of the past.
 
Brentbba said:
Nice car for men comfortable with thier heterosexual behavior too!
...and don't anybody try to correct this. I will find you. ;)
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Fixed it for you. Just try and come find me, and waste 1/10th of a gallon of gas getting to my house! I dare you. :flipoff2:

Make sure you read it and your orginal post first. :flipoff2::flipoff2:


Bluto said:
Just a WAG?
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Alan that is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to bigin. Even Shahram didn't throw down some comedy. That is bad. :flipoff2:


Shahram said:
Never thought I'd see the end of the era of the American Road Trip. Imagine that...our kids growing up and saying "Wait a minute...so, when you were my age, you could afford to just drive around the country?"
"It's what young people did when they didn't have much money to travel. We called 'em road trips, man. Get in the car and go."
"That's just crazy."
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That is very true and very sad.
 
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I am just frustrated by this whole thing. Every morning I drive by the military gas station to see the price sky rocket. We even get it at a discount. Yet I am still seeing regular for 4.32? I also read this morning that the cost per barrel drop(according to bloomberg) yet the gas jumped by for cents in a night? HORRIBLE! I too watched when they had all the oil representitives and the only thing they could say is "supply and demand." But the numbers show that we have been using less fuel as a whole. It really hurts to know that you are being lied to and can do nothing about it.
On another note, I was talking with my dad about this and he told me about a time when truck drivers pulled over on the side of the road when gas prices went up. I believe this was in the seventies, you oldies correct me if I am wrong. But he said it worked. I don't believe anything like that would ever happen again nor work. F:censor:K this S:censor:T! Mother F:censor:kers! Just one more thing to piss me off!
I am plotting a road trip.....on my BIKE....just to get to work. The only thing standing in my way is the hill on Texas street.
 
Giulitto said:
The only thing standing in my way is the hill on Texas street.
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Oh man, that hill is :eek: SCARY going down and :bang: IMPOSSIBLE going up! I once had to go down it on a beach cruiser to pick-up my truck from Bennigin's from a good time drinking the night before. The brakes started going out and the pedal was slowly going further and further back... :whoops: good thing I still had my foot brakes....


BTW
RIP road trip!
 
Just this past Sunday< I was telling my son jeff about the SUNDAY DRIVE, Our family would just hop in the car after church and drive up or down the coast, some times end up in San Clemente, San Diego other Santa Cruz or Santa Barbara. Now we take the train for the same fun.

The days of Road Trip and Sunday Drives may be at an end, until the nuke or hydro car.
 
Bluetribal said:
Oh man, that hill is :eek: SCARY going down and :bang: IMPOSSIBLE going up! I once had to go down it on a beach cruiser to pick-up my truck from Bennigin's from a good time drinking the night before. The brakes started going out and the pedal was slowly going further and further back... :whoops: good thing I still had my foot brakes....


BTW
RIP road trip!
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Man, you guys are making me miss San Diego. I used to live on Arizona between El Cajon and University. Good times in that neighborhood.

You want a real ***** of a hill? Laurel Street going from Bankers Hill down to the airport. Not as long as Texas, but STEEP. I use to ride from Arizona St to the airport and back 4 nights a week for work just because I liked to ride my bike!....god, I'm such a pussy now, I would never do that
 
Here is how supply and demand works when associated with fuel/oil.

When the demand is low, prices go up to maintain the ridiculously absurd profit margins oil companies make. When the demand is high, prices go up to increase the already ridiculously absurd profit margins. There is no better example of greed; greed at it's finest.

In either case, we're supplied without a courtesy reach around and left to be screwed again, and again.

I personally live too far away to commute by any other means than auto. I am also in no position to get a "beater" economy car. So, I have no option but to get in line at the gas station with a jar of Vaseline in hand and hope prices haven't gone up another quarter in the last 6 hrs. My only option is to try to find the cheapest gas (at the moment) and save a few cents a gallon without going too far out of my way.

:censor:
 
LandCrusher'70 said:
Here is how supply and demand works when associated with fuel/oil.

When the demand is low, prices go up to maintain the ridiculously absurd profit margins oil companies make. When the demand is high, prices go up to increase the already ridiculously absurd profit margins. There is no better example of greed; greed at it's finest.

In either case, we're supplied without a courtesy reach around and left to be screwed again, and again.

I personally live too far away to commute by any other means than auto. I am also in no position to get a "beater" economy car. So, I have no option but to get in line at the gas station with a jar of Vaseline in hand and hope prices haven't gone up another quarter in the last 6 hrs. My only option is to try to find the cheapest gas (at the moment) and save a few cents a gallon without going too far out of my way.

:censor:
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I agree completely, I at least want a kiss when I get fuc*ed, reminds me of the line in full metal jacket and I paraphrase:

"You look like the kind of man that would not have the courtesy to give a reacharound when you fxxx a guy in the a*s"

Two weeks ago, I paid 3.85.9 for premium at Costco, last week it was 4.04.9, yesterday it was 4.19.9.

Yesterday I read the Republicans killed a bill to assess a 25% windfall tax over some ridiculous profit level.

Proof of something going on?
 
Either :lol: or :crybaby: or :steer:

Anybody who posted in this thread going to the Rubithon? :flipoff2:

Other than PabloVTA? :grinpimp:
 
Bluto said:
Either :lol: or :crybaby: or :steer:

Anybody who posted in this thread going to the Rubithon? :flipoff2:

Other than PabloVTA? :grinpimp:
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If my rig was ready, I would be going...screw the $$$! Looks like it will have to be next year when gas is at $6.50 or more. :eek:
 
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