dont moan about your gas
07-20-2005, 02:18 PM
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just a little note to our american members, my car was dead on empty just cost me ?59 to fill her up , that $100 and with the comp telling me i have a range of 490 miles thats not good 
07-20-2005, 02:27 PM
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What gas needle read at the time? 0 or 1?
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
07-20-2005, 02:29 PM
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Funny, with my 545, I'm lucky to get range of 350 miles.
Not sure if anyone has posted this already, but there was a news story this week in San Francisco, that there's an Arco station, locally owned and operated, charging between $6 and $9 per gallon for gas, regular was like $6.15, premium is about $8.50.
The station across the street charges less than 1/2 of that, or normal prices. They were interviewing people at the station, and it was amazing that they hadn't even looked at the prices on the 15-foot tall signs at the entrance, and when they did, they said "Wow!" and bought the gas anyway.
Talk about total boneheads! Hard to feel sorry for people like that.
Not sure if anyone has posted this already, but there was a news story this week in San Francisco, that there's an Arco station, locally owned and operated, charging between $6 and $9 per gallon for gas, regular was like $6.15, premium is about $8.50.
The station across the street charges less than 1/2 of that, or normal prices. They were interviewing people at the station, and it was amazing that they hadn't even looked at the prices on the 15-foot tall signs at the entrance, and when they did, they said "Wow!" and bought the gas anyway.
Talk about total boneheads! Hard to feel sorry for people like that.
07-20-2005, 02:32 PM
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My Ride: 2005 545i with everything
Originally Posted by John W' date='Jul 20 2005, 03:29 PM
Funny, with my 545, I'm lucky to get range of 350 miles.
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07-20-2005, 02:34 PM
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My Ride: 2005 545i with everything
Originally Posted by my530i' date='Jul 20 2005, 03:27 PM
What gas needle read at the time? 0 or 1?
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
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07-20-2005, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by gwf545' date='Jul 20 2005, 10:31 PM
Gas price?? Who cares.? But that U.K. right hand drive, that's something to moan about, whoa! 
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whats wrong with a right hand drive car...
07-20-2005, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by rodneyremington' date='Jul 20 2005, 04:32 PM
[quote name='John W' date='Jul 20 2005, 03:29 PM']Funny, with my 545, I'm lucky to get range of 350 miles.
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[/quote]Yeah, I know - so it's not quite as expensive a comparison as it seems - he gets 50% more miles per tank than gas/petrol models.
07-20-2005, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by tonye60' date='Jul 20 2005, 04:36 PM
[quote name='gwf545' date='Jul 20 2005, 10:31 PM']Gas price?? Who cares.? But that U.K. right hand drive, that's something to moan about, whoa!
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[/quote]What's right? (Get it? That's a joke, like my first comment.....)
07-20-2005, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rodneyremington' date='Jul 20 2005, 04:34 PM
[quote name='my530i' date='Jul 20 2005, 03:27 PM']What gas needle read at the time? 0 or 1?
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
I never moan about the gas price. I wish it could go as high as Europe so that big SUV and truck would deminish from the road.
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[/quote]How many M5 would you find on the street compared to non-efficient SUV?
I would support SUV when it's truely used for it - like more than 70% of the time, but I see people driving it just because of the ride height, SUV bandwagon, me-too kind of thing.
Think about Hummer, Ford Excursion, Aviator, etc.
What about super unefficient Caterpilla machinary? I support those because they're utilised for their own purpose 100% of the time.
Also, think about resource for next 10 or 20 years, and think about the war in Iraq.