why complain..

[Joeywhat]

Originally Posted by nikon777

No i stay out of the fast lane, but people still ride right up to your a** like they expect you to drive faster. I just wave them to go around. Im generally not in a hurry when I drive.

You can drive as fast as you like in the right lane...that doesn't bother me. It's the morons who drive 10 under in the fast lane, going the same speed as the people in the other lanes so you can't pass.

[cougar_guy04]

What gets me is the people who take off from the green lights like they were just staging at Pomona. Guess I've taken to driving like the demographic set that typically owns my type of car, but I don't see the point in going WOT from a stop light just to come to a screeching stop at the next light.

Hell, I've gotten 22mpg in town with my car and I'm really curious to see what I can wring out of it on the highway (4000+ lb car with a 4.6L V8 ).

[Brickboy240]

Sure, prices ar high, but again, like the assault on big oil by the media and the left, the "gas crisis" and fussing about gas prices is probably overblown as well.

Doubt it?

Well, why is it that as I drive the freeways and busy streets of the 4th largest US city, I see tons of single person Suburbans, Expeditions, Range Rovers and yes...H2s? People blast past me on the freeway, doing well over 65 in F-250 4x4s and Tahoes...usually only one person in the car.

I drive past several high end shopping centers (places with stores like Talbots, Ann Taylor and Harold Powell...high end clothiers) and their parking lots are full of these same huge SUVs and BMWs.

Every restaurant parking lot I pass is jam-packed with cars. Every fast food drive through window is backed up around the building. Big SUVs just idiling away...one right after the other.

Most of the people I see on the road, in these SUVs are on some sort of expensive cell phone, Blackberry or PDA. Many have satellite radio and screens in the backseats fo kids. Expensive rims, too. Hmmm...after paying to drive their 15mpg vehicles...SOMEBODY sure has alot of cake left over to buy alot of extras. Some extras I don't even have.

Every Wal Mart, Best Buy and Target I pass, has a parking lot full of SUVs and expensive cars. Theres hardly a place to park!

So...seeing all of this....I am calling BS on the "gas price crisis" because if there WAS a crisis...every street corner would have a Suburban for sale parked there and all these high end stores and restaurant parking lots would be empty. That is not the case.

This is a phenomenon I am NOT just noticing in the nicer parts of town...but all over town in every sort of neighborhood.

So the gas prices are REALLY NOT putting a crunch on people as big media would have you think.

- Brickboy240

[Carnivorous]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

So...seeing all of this....I am calling BS on the "gas price crisis" because if there WAS a crisis...every street corner would have a Suburban for sale parked there and all these high end stores and restaurant parking lots would be empty. That is not the case.

This is a phenomenon I am NOT just noticing in the nicer parts of town...but all over town in every sort of neighborhood.

So the gas prices are REALLY NOT putting a crunch on people as big media would have you think.

I agree as to Houston people. And for many, I think it's just high enough to be painful, but not high enough to cause most of the idiots on the road to re-examine their driving habits. BUT ALSO the high gas prices have not been around long enough to truly impact what people drive... sure it sucks paying more, but for a car you own outright, you've got to trade up to a much more fuel efficient car for the gas savings to even come close to the outlay on a new vehicle.

That said, try buying a hybrid. I was at a few car places over the weekend and everyone is back-ordered a few months on them, you can't even test-drive one.

[1lowlife]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

big media.

There in lies most of the problem.............
Not with just the gas prices, but the war, the weather, the upcoming "hurricane season", and any other fear inducing story they can come up with.....
Gloom and doom, that is what sells in the big news media.
Keep us all afraid, not informed, but afraid.
Makes us feel like we need them to help us make it through the day.....
I've never fallen for it..........

[Brickboy240]

Other than MAYBE a few more Pruises on the road...I just don't see the huge crunch cause by a "recession" or "stiffling high gas prices" that they crow on about on every news cast. Again...this is in EVERY part of town...not just the nicer neighborhoods.

Sure, the high prices ARE causing some discomfort...but not the mass panic the media has it out to be.

Sorry..I am just not seeing that.

- brickboy240

[chad_quixote]

new rule:
if you drink starbucks
then you cant complain about gas prices

[oldfart]

I like to set the cruise at the speed limit and everyone is up my butt but I don't care either - and yes I am in the slow lane. If I am in the fast lane I am going with traffic.

Very few are really serious about saving energy. Remember the 70s? Gas lines and every other light bulb was unscrewed or removed. Now I go past car dealerships at 3 AM and there is enough lights on to light up a small city.

So much for saving energy.

[SgtWKPII]

I could really care less about this, I burn gas, I can't do anything about the cost of it, so therefore I don't worry about it. Let the Suburban drivers burn their dollars how they want, I commute on a motorcycle every day rain or shine, and pay $10 a week in commute fuel.

I start my Explorer once a week, to go 3 miles to make my weekly grocery run, other than that it sits.

[ForTehNguyen]

Originally Posted by chad_quixote

new rule:
if you drink starbucks
then you cant complain about gas prices

add drinking bottled water frequently to that list also. The funny thing is oil requires an extremely expensive infrastructure to drill, produce, transport, refine. Yet why does bottled water cost more per gallon than gas.