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(My car's locking fuel door broke from metal fatigue a while back, but with the recent price rises I decided it was time to get a locking gas cap, rather than wait to get another fuel door.)
(My car's locking fuel door broke from metal fatigue a while back, but with the recent price rises I decided it was time to get a locking gas cap, rather than wait to get another fuel door.)
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Date: 2005-09-01 02:59 am (UTC)That sounds truly excellent. I didn't even know sucha thing was available. Where do you one? How does it work?
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 05:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 04:24 am (UTC)Oh.. an I was -6yrs old... as in I wasn't born yet. ;oD
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:10 am (UTC)Now, if MA will just let me register a diesel sometime soon...2006, I hear, maybe?
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Date: 2005-09-01 11:49 am (UTC)Mind you, I grew up with diesel Jettas and then a Fox, and sorta kinda almost learned to drive stickshift on one (I never got good), but they're a little cranky and I don't think I want to deal with another European car's electrical gremlins any time soon.
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Date: 2005-09-01 01:27 pm (UTC)(I suppose I could just get a residence in New Hampshire, register it there and thumb my nose at the RMV.)
avoid Audis at ALL costs.
Oh yeah.
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:13 am (UTC)Prices at most of the gas stations out here in cow-land are the same or cheaper than they were yesterday. It's the urban stations that have shot up, perhaps because they can get away with it.
Yay FUD.
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:24 am (UTC)A test of this will be if, in a week or so, when the rural stations have to refill their tanks, their prices also go up.
One other detail from the WBZ broadcast was that the stations owned by the big chains generally have long-term contracts, which has meant that they have more secure supplies, although the prices charged to them are rising also--evidently the contracts don't guarantee price level, only supply--while the independent dealers are being told by their distributors that there may not be any more fuel for them next time around.
The behavior I have observed around here is that all the formerly cheap independent dealers are now on the order of twenty cents higher than the chains.
Two links from
http://www.gaspricewatch.com
http://www.gasbuddy.com
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:05 am (UTC)But none of these stations receive a shipment of gas every day. Also, the station nearest my house had raised its price for 87 octane to $3.179 Tuesday night, and to $3.[ ]59 tonight. (They ran out of 3s!) Either their suppliers are saying there may not be any more gas for another week and they'd (profitably) reduce demand to what they'll be able to supply, or they've decided they're going out of business and they might as well get a bankroll for Foxwoods.
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:11 am (UTC)Seriously! As an example, the broadcast said that once every three days was high-volume.
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:35 am (UTC)"Motorists were confused that the price increases varied widely, from pennies to a dollar. The variations were due to how stations buy their gasoline. Most branded stations, such as Exxon and Shell, have contracts that lock in prices over extended periods, allowing them to weather fluctuations in the market caused by disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
"Independent stations, which usually purchase gas on the spot market, suffer from daily price swings and are more likely to boost their prices significantly during chaotic events. Gasoline futures prices have climbed about 35 percent since Friday."
So I'm wrong. The long-term contracts do lock in prices, at least according to the Post.
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 04:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 04:51 am (UTC)Maybe I should go out there tomorrow. :)
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 05:42 am (UTC)It still beats $7.00/gallon that I saw a week ago, though.
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Date: 2005-09-01 03:32 pm (UTC)The effect hasn't swept the entire nation yet; LA are is still hovering around $3/gallon pretty uniformly.
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:54 am (UTC)Cutting the fuel line, however, gets past them both. Boy, that sucks...sorry that happened to you!
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Date: 2005-09-01 01:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 01:30 pm (UTC)Or back to the point, anyway...because locking gas caps and siphoning fuel out of people's tanks screams "seventies oil crisis" to me. Just like the gas lines that are apparently forming in Georgia.
Any diesel drivers out there?
Date: 2005-09-01 02:09 pm (UTC)http://www.greasecar.com did my conversion, but you can also contact http://www.frybrid.com and http://www.greasel.com.
Only works for diesels, though. HOWEVER - that being said -- Go Ethanol! Check to see if your car is alrady a Flexible Fuel Vehicle here:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy03osti/33058.pdf
http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/flexfuelvehicles.php
There are also 50%/50% conversion kits that advance the timing and increase the richness o the mix so that you can run E50 in almost any car...Need to find the link for those. If you can access your fuel injector control chip, sometimes you can advance things/mod things without needing a special custom chip.
I've heard about people already just going 40%/60% ethanol in their engines with no modification, but I don't think I'd try that myself. Still...people have done it.