McQueen77
Banned
yup. groceries, well, virtually anything that has to be flown or trucked in someplace will all go up.
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No one complaining about gas/diesel prices?
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yup. groceries, well, virtually anything that has to be flown or trucked in someplace will all go up.
GeorgiaBII
Drag Race Newbie
Cheese prices have doubled.
As for gas what can you do? I have to drive to get to work, home, stores. Me bitching like a bitch won't change it in the least.
As for gas what can you do? I have to drive to get to work, home, stores. Me bitching like a bitch won't change it in the least.
Gunkata
Drag Race Newbie
and they get gov't subsidies... AND they mostly sell the oil we already do produce/extract here, to the rest of the world. Makes no sense really...
NoRegrets78
OG
I pray for Armageddon. This planet is fucked and we need to be exterminated. But that's just my opinion.
surrealchemist
Ready to race!
Its still cheaper than europe so I'm not complaining.
flug2012
Ready to race!
Europe is up to $9/Gal but i think we're just getting jibbed by the oil companies anyway. I don't get it why Diesel is so expensive here in the US, more than premium, it's BS. I guess they want us to by hybrids and electric cars like the Volt.. What a joke read this report on the Volt;
Cost to operate a Chevy Volt…..
Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph.
Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile. (Don’t forget the pollution produced to make the electricity is probably very comparable to the pollution emitted by the gasoline car. That is just a trade-off rather than an advantage.)
The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 .
So this Administration wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more than 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
Cost to operate a Chevy Volt…..
Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph.
Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile. (Don’t forget the pollution produced to make the electricity is probably very comparable to the pollution emitted by the gasoline car. That is just a trade-off rather than an advantage.)
The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 .
So this Administration wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more than 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
GeorgiaBII
Drag Race Newbie
Nope we pay essentially the same amount for the product. The difference is in Taxes.
Oil companies make a 10% profit I've heard. That isn't much. They just do huge volume.
Fastest way to screw up the economy is to let the .gov interfere with free trade.
flug2012
Ready to race!
True the taxes are much higher in Europe. This link shows the current prices in Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg. Holland has the higher tax bracket, hence the price differences. Premium in Holland is $9.52/Gal
http://www.brandstofprijzen.info/
danielj1
Go Kart Champion
VW is looking at getting the GTD motor for the North American Passat to aid in marketing.
McQueen77
Banned
$4.50 here bud, $4.50
Red2011GTI
Go Kart Champion
Flug, where do you live that you pay $1.16 per kwh?:iono:
In Phoenix we pay abouts 11 cents per kwh.
In Phoenix we pay abouts 11 cents per kwh.