• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

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The hell with gas at the rate it is going up. Got tired of getting around 10mpg in the Camaro and not being able to drive it on the open roads. Gas could be $5+ for Prem soon the rate it is going up.
 
I took the vette out for a ride today, and noticed that the local Shell station has regular gas for $3.09 a gallon now. I checked my records and on 12/30/2020 when I took out the Jeep to get the tank filled up, regular was $2.19 a gallon at that time. :ack2:

I guess when the vette needs to get the tank filled up, I will probably have a stroke when I see what the price of 93 octane is now. :dead:
 
CHASZ51 said:
They want to force us out of gas cars. At least the bolt is faster than my Camaro from 0 to 30mph.
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Just wait till you have to put batteries in it,You'll wished you owned a oil well or a MoonShine still!:bump::bump:
 
gmjunkie said:
Just wait till you have to put batteries in it,You'll wished you owned a oil well or a MoonShine still!:bump::bump:
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They have a 8 year warranty and or 100k miles. I drive 50 miles a week and never keep a car that long. Had 5 cars in less than a year.
 
Until charging stations are as readily available EVERYWHERE as gasoline pumps, and the time to recharge is equal or less than the time it takes to fill up a gas tank, not likely for the electric cars to catch my attention.

Quite frankly, the "global warming" crap just doesn't make any sense to me, so what is the REAL agenda with the push to electric vehicles?
 
Rich Z said:
Until charging stations are as readily available EVERYWHERE as gasoline pumps, and the time to recharge is equal or less than the time it takes to fill up a gas tank, not likely for the electric cars to catch my attention.

Quite frankly, the "global warming" crap just doesn't make any sense to me, so what is the REAL agenda with the push to electric vehicles?
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If i had to make long drives i would not have bought a EV. I drive 4 miles to work and back and one 4 mile trip to the store and that is it. Very rare i drive more than 30 miles from home and never past 80 miles.

And if i want to go to level 2 charging i have to buy a charger for around $500 and pay someone to install it and rig up a 220v outlet that would cost another 1k or around there.

The included charger takes 1 hour per 4 miles of driving. I think i am fine with the slow charger.
 
When I worked at the Ford dealer someone brought in an Escort Hybrid that was 5 years old. The battery was only good for 7 years. They wouldn't even talk to them about a trade. Replacement cost IIRC was around $4000 back then. (2012 I believe)
 
I don't think i will ever go to gas unless it stays below $2.50 a gal and i don't see it ever going down again.
 
Maybe I should have held off on buying the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk and gotten the SRT version or even that Trackhawk model with 707 horsepower instead. :hehehe:
 
When gas tops $5 a gal they may pay you to take one off the lot. I see all these gas hog V8 being dumped cheap once gas goes over $4 for reg and 5 for prem.

My C6 got much better gas vs my 2021 LT1 Camaro.
 
We're only home every 5 or 6 weeks now so it's not impacting our finances. But I used to burn about $70 a week in my dually. But we go through about $450-$600 a day in the new Peterbilt, depending on location and length of trip. That's about 70 cents a gallon more than it was in the summer.
 
85vette said:
We're only home every 5 or 6 weeks now so it's not impacting our finances. But I used to burn about $70 a week in my dually. But we go through about $450-$600 a day in the new Peterbilt, depending on location and length of trip. That's about 70 cents a gallon more than it was in the summer.
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Ouch! Man you HAVE to be making good money to make those trips worthwhile for you. How many gallons does the fuel tank in your Peterbilt hold? And what sort of miles per gallon, roughly?
 
135 gallons each tank (270 total) and we get between 7 and 11 mpg depending on how much weight we're hauling and mountains, etc. We generally have very light loads. It's pretty crazy, we hauled 12 lbs from Canada to Dallas, Texas one time. Another time we hauled 5 pallets that only weighed about 500 lbs total weight but was valued at 4.5 million $$!

We are company drivers so we have no overhead. The company pays for everything except our meals and they often cover that on holidays. We average about 86 cents a mile with this company and on a west coast to east coast trip we can roll 1200 miles a day. We average 4500 miles a week but we have had weeks that we turned in 7000.

We haul temperature controlled pharmaceuticals exclusively and I'm pretty sure the company is getting upwards of five dollars a mile from these big pharma companies. Temps are critical and we have the specialized equipment to do it. These loads have monitoring equipment onboard and I have witnessed some of our competition deliver out of temp range. (FedEx for one) We are a hot commodity. :hair_on_fire:
 
Sounds like you should be able to bank some decent money that way. And a great way to see the country, too. :thumbsup:
 
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