After months of price gouging, I was able to get 93 Octane for a $1.85 close to downtown Houston. Oh for the days of $.93 a gallon 93 octane.:)

How is that relief? I don't guess I'll ever understand the people that get excited over $.05-.10 price drop in gas. That saves you what, $50 bucks a year? Now if it dropped down to the good old days of $.93, then yea, I'd be pretty relieved. I sympathize with those that are paying $2.40-$4.00 per gallon, but us Texans "have it made", relatively speaking.

I would agree with you if I hadn't come from payin $2.12 at gas stations around here. And savings is savings. But yeah--we have it made on the gas scene.

ahhh..I remember the 93 octane for under a buck. I wasn't driving back then though.

Originally posted by DreRX8
And savings is savings.

^what he said

im relieved, 91 octane(highest octane in az) was nearly 2.55 here in arizona, now its down to approx 2.00 -/+ .05-.07 so on a 14 gallon fillup (which is every 3-4 days) im saving about 6-7 dollars. every fill up, saves me about $50-$70 a month, allows me to save something!

<offtopic> fahrenheit 9/11 was awesome, bush sucks.</offtopic>

"Holy spinning rotaries!" says I. The local Shell was selling Optimax Gold (min. 91 octane says the website) at $0 .809/ litre yesterday which in US gallons is ~ $3.06..factor in exchange and we're looking at ~$3.85/ US gal. Looks as though it wasn't such a bargoon after all.

I paid $1.69 last Friday for 87 octane! I wonder if Kerry is again going to say that it's all Bush's fault? Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I paid 2.47 last night for 91

oh well

I love driving

the local media here had an article yesterday about the price of gas dropping .07. where was the article when gas shot UP overnight .40? i really hate the media. just like articles saying Bush is creating tens of thousands of new jobs. ummm...what about when under his policy, hundreds of thousands of jobs were destroyed? ahhh!!!!!! ok feel better now (although not much)!

More years ago than I care to remember, I pumped Gulf "No Nox" at the second busiest gas station on the East Coast for a summer job. Premium was 33 cents. You couldn't stuff more than $3.00 worth of fuel into a Beetle's tank, and the dollar counters only went to $9.99!! They actually turned back to zero again if you pumped over 30 gallons on a fill, which only happened to me once.

The ciggies were only .35 a pack too!

Boy, do I sound old!!

Originally posted by DreRX8
After months of price gouging..... \

get over it, the US has some of the cheapest gas in the world.

It blows my mind when people complain. buy a hybrid car if you dont like paying for gas.

Oh, and if is see one more person complaining about gas prices at the pumps while filling up their SUV im gonna loose it.

sorry to rant, this is the pet peeve of pet peeves for me.

I relived myself at the pump and demanded they pay me $2 bucks a gallon for it.. but they called the cops instead :(

Originally posted by shigginsrx8
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get over it, the US has some of the cheapest gas in the world.

It blows my mind when people complain. buy a hybrid car if you dont like paying for gas.

Oh, and if is see one more person complaining about gas prices at the pumps while filling up their SUV im gonna loose it.

sorry to rant, this is the pet peeve of pet peeves for me. Just because the rest of the world pays more doesn't mean I want to...that's why I live in America

and i will bitch when i see the ticker go past $70 to fill my suburban...cause it gets the same gas mileage as my Formula, which isnt much worse than my wife's RX-8...you just dont notice how similar they are when the SUV has a 30+ gallon tank compared to your 15 gallon tank

i really hate the media. just like articles saying Bush is creating tens of thousands of new jobs. ummm...what about when under his policy, hundreds of thousands of jobs were destroyed? First of all, the way the government creates jobs is by removing regulations and taxes on companies that actually expand and go out and hire people. Businessmen and women creates jobs, not the government. The recent Bush tax cuts helped to do this by lowering the tax brackets that effect so many small businesses, and in allowing businesses to write off more equipment purchases sooner then later (as before). The government in turn can cause a loss of jobs by doing the opposite. Where has the Bush administration gone in and caused more regulations and taxes on business? The loss of jobs that you are referring to began while Clinton was in office, not to mention 9/11. As for the press giving Bush any credit on much at all, that's a joke.

Originally posted by Cycopath
...you just dont notice how similar they are when the SUV has a 30+ gallon tank compared to your 15 gallon tank

Dude, my family owns and has owned a number of trucks, cause we have a farm and we actually need them. the trucks dont even compare to a reasonable car, of which we have owned many as well. The size of the gas tank doesnt fool me into thinking I pay less.

bye the bye our Yukon gets at best 13/17 which is not nearly as good as most 8's. I'll admit part of it is because we actually use a truck to do truck stuff, like towing etc.. not to get the kiddies from school and pick up botlled spring water at the supermarket.

Originally posted by shigginsrx8
Dude, my family owns and has owned a number of trucks, cause we have a farm and we actually need them. the trucks dont even compare to a reasonable car, of which we have owned many as well. The size of the gas tank doesnt fool me into thinking I pay less.

bye the bye our Yukon gets at best 13/17 which is not nearly as good as most 8's. I'll admit part of it is because we actually use a truck to do truck stuff, like towing etc.. not to get the kiddies from school and pick up botlled spring water at the supermarket.

Agreed. Go fill up a F350 with two tanks, drive 350 miles, and have to fill it up again and THEN complain. THAT is crappy gas mileage.

Originally posted by shigginsrx8
Dude, my family owns and has owned a number of trucks, cause we have a farm and we actually need them. the trucks dont even compare to a reasonable car, of which we have owned many as well. The size of the gas tank doesnt fool me into thinking I pay less.

bye the bye our Yukon gets at best 13/17 which is not nearly as good as most 8's. I'll admit part of it is because we actually use a truck to do truck stuff, like towing etc.. not to get the kiddies from school and pick up botlled spring water at the supermarket.

my daily driver (a 1999 Formula) gets 18 mpg as teh suburban gets 16-17 mpg (15 towing). and the RX8 doesnt get much better than my formula. it hasnt changed my driving habits in any way, i still take the boat to the lake most weekends, i still cruise around when bored. but it still i snice to see the prices drop, even it is just a few cents here and there

Originally posted by Elara
Agreed. Go fill up a F350 with two tanks, drive 350 miles, and have to fill it up again and THEN complain. THAT is crappy gas mileage.

i am not complaing about poor gas milage, just that gas is expensive. when i bought my cars i know that they get shitty gas mileage

$2.68 here 2 weeks ago for 93 octane...
$2.35 on fill-up today so it is getting better.

I hear people mentioning they use 87 or 89 octane in their 8's. Isn't that a pretty bad idea? The warranty booklet and (my) dealer say premium gas only at the risk of voiding the warranty.

1- Is this BS?
2- Is there a way they could tell if it was not premium over, say, 3 years of driving or less?
3- Would I notice anything? I know knocking isn't really an issue since the Wankel doesnt have the physical parts that cause "pinging", ... e.g. pistons and so on. Centrifugal = bliss right???

Originally posted by DRx
$2.68 here 2 weeks ago for 93 octane...
$2.35 on fill-up today so it is getting better.

I hear people mentioning they use 87 or 89 octane in their 8's. Isn't that a pretty bad idea? The warranty booklet and (my) dealer say premium gas only at the risk of voiding the warranty.

1- Is this BS?
2- Is there a way they could tell if it was not premium over, say, 3 years of driving or less?
3- Would I notice anything? I know knocking isn't really an issue since the Wankel doesnt have the physical parts that cause "pinging", ... e.g. pistons and so on. Centrifugal = bliss right???

Read the manual that came with your car. It clearly says it can operate on 87.

Almost everyone who uses 87 gets better mileage than with 91.

Originally posted by grogiefrog
First of all, the way the government creates jobs is by removing regulations and taxes on companies that actually expand and go out and hire people. Businessmen and women creates jobs, not the government. The recent Bush tax cuts helped to do this by lowering the tax brackets that effect so many small businesses, and in allowing businesses to write off more equipment purchases sooner then later (as before). The government in turn can cause a loss of jobs by doing the opposite. Where has the Bush administration gone in and caused more regulations and taxes on business? The loss of jobs that you are referring to began while Clinton was in office, not to mention 9/11. As for the press giving Bush any credit on much at all, that's a joke.

A bit of off topic. But, since you spew this nonsense... let's correct your memory. The loss of jobs did happen when you said, but it was because B$sh was talking the economy down before any sign of a downturn existed. Follow that up with Alan Greenspan raising interest rates at every meeting (exactly the wrong direction if you believed B$sh). This got the selling in the stock market going. Then you have the whole world wondering who won the election. This caused more selling. Follow this by the Supreme Court appointing B$sh as president, and nearly every country in the world but the US called it a coup. Guess what... they continued to withdrawal money from the US markets. Then the final blow - B$sh raises his fist to the world telling them they are either with us or against us. What da ya know... Billions of dollars are sold by foreign investors.

Like it or not, jobs are tied to the stock market. Companies expand using stock sales far more than they do using loans. Greenspan, under B$sh, lowered the interest rates all he could to help this administration. They still lost over 2 million jobs. So now we see a few hundred thousand gain.... it's still well over a million jobs lost. This doesn't even count all the under employed people. What's that Kerry said today - the average person is earning 9000K less with their new jobs.

Yep - that tax cut really helped a few rich people. But, I'd rather give back that tiny tax reduction for the poor and keep the better paying jobs for me... and my friends.

Thank you almighty Zeltar! (He/she/it is probably one of the masses that doesn't realize that money is debt! sheep, sheep, sheep. lol!) :)

today in the news, the media is reporting that gas will be going down for this holiday weekend. they report a whooping .15 decrease since MAY. they report that it is 'nice' to see gas with a '1' as the first digit? where the h#^%$! is THAT? granted, i purchase premium, at Costco, it is 2.14 and at the corner pump (Chevron), its 2.38! for regular, at the corner pump, it's 2.xx, not the $1.9x as reported. I understand that here in the desert, we require a special blend due to EPA regulations, but hasn't anybody realized that during this time-period, refinaries ARE REPORTING HIGHEST PROFITS EVER!! oh, really? no correlation there, huh? why doesn't the media report on THAT? hmm... higest pump prices ever, refinaries reporting highest profits ever. I really hate the media!

i understand how the process works, i liken it to CD manufacturing. CD consumer prices have not gone down in 15 years, yet manufaturing costs have gone down to pennies per CD!

I would just like to say that i hate economics:mad: It is the most unorganized thing ever. The only thing that i learned from my economics class is that no one really can predict what is going to happen next.

Originally posted by JasonHamilton
Read the manual that came with your car. It clearly says it can operate on 87.

Almost everyone who uses 87 gets better mileage than with 91. I could be wrong but my manual says that 87 octane can be substituted if premium is unavailable. And I've never been anywhere that premium was not available. This would indicate to me that the renesis is meant to drink premium. Anyhow...it's not worth the trouble...I use 93.

Nothing gets Americans' attention like the price of gasoline. Other than scarcity of gasoline, but everyone's forgotten about the 70's.