My first gas station debit card limit........ (Page 2)

We just bought an SUV.

Wife asked me to go fill up the tank.

Exactly $100.00!!!

I told her to put it in neutral on any down slopes.

Heh, I was thinking about that on my recent bike rides.....  IM training has made me a big proponent of coasting wherever possible

Likewise, I have changed my driving habits a little, on the theory that every little bit helps.  I accelerate slowly and evenly, rather than jumping out (and ending up at the same red light as everyone else  ).  I coast easy behind people coming up to stoplights/signs.  I drive staedy as possible, rather than surges (good advice for the bike too).  and I check my tire pressure.

do what?  accelerate slowly and drive steady?

How is that so?  Doesn't he know that it's all about ME?

Here in Jacksonville FL you can't re-swipe your card because so many CC theives were using them to gas up all their homies cars all at one stop.  So they force you to go inside if you want/need more gas.  I always leave with that not so full feeling.

We were at 1.46/L yesterday and have settled in at 1.44/L; that means for my Saturn Ion it now costs about $70 to fill

That's why when I'm not bike commuting I take the bus; I think since Sept I've only taken the car to work about 10 days and those were days I just couldn't get around it.

Shane

Congress will not allow drilling in the areas of the US that we have oil, they just blocked drilling last week for the umteenth time.  As long as this continues prices will climb one thing I find ironic is while our oil companys are prevented from drilling China and Cuba are drilling 60 miles off Florida so soon we will depend on China to sell us the oil that they pumped off our coast we can't get the Cuban oil do to the embargo Lets stop this now!! follow the link

http://www.americansolutions.com/

My Mini cost me over $50 for the first time this week. It cost me $20 when I bought it.

A tank lasts me 2 weeks though, maybe longer if I just watch how much I drive. I might be buying a Vespa soon...

40 buck in the mazda Protege. 35 miles to the gallon helps. Living a 1000 feet to work helps even more.

Was reading in a web site that the calories burned pedaling a bike would equal that of a gallon of gas at about 3000 miles. That is efficiency.  That being said I must have 20,000 mile tank hanging around my midsection. 

Had the same experience...$4.78 a gallon....