Warren Mumpower said:
$5 a gallon for MILK..!! Thank goodness I don't live back East! I paid $2.59 today and wasn't happy.
Let me say this about gas and large vs small cars. I don’t own a big Excursion but drive a Caravan for my personal car…that I can’t afford the gas for. But you guys will find out that when you get older you just cannot fold up into some tiny sardine can car any longer. It hurts too bad…that’s if you can get in it at all. Actually, for me it’s not getting in the car that’s so bad, it’s getting back out…
As for having to pay if I want to play…well I don’t mind paying…but I don’t like getting screwed. That’s my feeling on gas prices…and I don’t need any more Aristocraft track.
$5 a gallon milk? I wish. $6 here in the local huge supermarket. But I sure as hell wish we could run our cars on it…
Regular gasoline - $9.80 a gallon…
Diesel up to 10% more…
We live in the open country farming part of East Anglia, and our family car is a ML350 - filling that up costs about $160. My week-ender and leisure vehicle [leisure?] is a 25-year old 380SL - filling that up costs me about $135.
We drive around a lot for and with our daughter [a wheel-chair user], and her husband [severely brain damaged] as the local transportation system is inaccessible for her, so the mileage is not good, as they say. We therefore have to fill up at least once a week on the SUV, maybe once a month on the ‘fun’ car.
Over in Ontario we have a Plymouth Voyager - we bought it in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, a habit we have grown into over the years, and drive it back to the Brighton/Trenton area where we live in Canada. The gas mileage on that has been pretty good over three years we’ve had it, but then, we knew what we were getting into there - my family have had 12 Voyagers between us since the early '80’s.
Don’t be too downhearted about your ‘cheap’ milk and gas…just be grateful you don’t live in Norway, where things are about 25% even more expensive than UK.
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