what average suv gets 12mpg and what hybrid suv gets 50mpg?
However I give toyota a thumbs up for making such a bold move int he market.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
The real world leader of Automobiles:
8-4-2005 Toyota working on 10 hybrid vehicles
Japan's Toyota Motor Co. said it was working on 10 new hybrid vehicles, after seeing sales of the environmentally friendly autos rocket in the United States.
Toyota was the first automaker to introduce a hybrid vehicle powered by a combination of gasoline (petrol) and electricity.
Two years after it was introduced, Toyota's hugely successful Prius still has a waiting list and some buyers are waiting more than six months for delivery.
"People are buying hybrids for good reasons beyond fuel economy," Press said.
"They realize hybrids are a simply way to make an important difference in curtailing foreign-oil dependence, air pollution, and greenhouse gases."
To meet its sales target, Toyota will have to add hybrid engines across its vehicle fleet, including trucks.
An average SUV will consumer 20 liters (five gallons) of gas over a 100 kilometer (62 mile) trip, compared to a hybrid which will take just four to five liters (1.1 to 1.3 gallons) of gasoline.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Right around $3 in California according to folks in Off Topic. :thumbsup:
Around $2.30 here now.
Why do the P&N folks fudge the truth???
Originally posted by: charrison
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Right around $3 in California according to folks in Off Topic. :thumbsup:
Around $2.30 - $2.40 (off brand Vs chain) here now.
Why do the P&N folks fudge the truth???
no overnight 30 cent spikes eitherhere..
Originally posted by: Stunt
Dave, instead of complaining about these companies, invest in them!
Oil is a commodity and most suppliers of commodities take a percentage off the top for a product with high demand and limited supply. I don't see you complaining about steel prices, seafood prices, gold prices, software prices, etc
All these companies take a bit of the top, all generate profits, all are deserving of those profits. Fact is, oil companies are not any more profitable than many other industries, including pharma, software, high-tech, other metal producers. Oil companies are not out there to be a charity for people!
On a lighter note, I invested some money out of my savings during university last August, and it's up 77%.
I fully support higher oil costs...everything about them is good.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Stunt
Dave, instead of complaining about these companies, invest in them!
Oil is a commodity and most suppliers of commodities take a percentage off the top for a product with high demand and limited supply. I don't see you complaining about steel prices, seafood prices, gold prices, software prices, etc
All these companies take a bit of the top, all generate profits, all are deserving of those profits. Fact is, oil companies are not any more profitable than many other industries, including pharma, software, high-tech, other metal producers. Oil companies are not out there to be a charity for people!
On a lighter note, I invested some money out of my savings during university last August, and it's up 77%.
I fully support higher oil costs...everything about them is good.
I didn't say it wasn't.
Gas prices should in fact refelct the real costs.
Based on price per barrel now, Gas should be at $6 a gallon but they know that would cripple the Global Economy not just the U.S.
They were given permission to raise the price to $3 in the U.S. 3 weeks ago.
It should be $6 a gallon. I repeat it should be the $6 gallon based on the price of Oil.
Originally posted by: charrison
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Stunt
Dave, instead of complaining about these companies, invest in them!
Oil is a commodity and most suppliers of commodities take a percentage off the top for a product with high demand and limited supply. I don't see you complaining about steel prices, seafood prices, gold prices, software prices, etc
All these companies take a bit of the top, all generate profits, all are deserving of those profits. Fact is, oil companies are not any more profitable than many other industries, including pharma, software, high-tech, other metal producers. Oil companies are not out there to be a charity for people!
On a lighter note, I invested some money out of my savings during university last August, and it's up 77%.
I fully support higher oil costs...everything about them is good.
I didn't say it wasn't.
Gas prices should in fact refelct the real costs.
Based on price per barrel now, Gas should be at $6 a gallon but they know that would cripple the Global Economy not just the U.S.
They were given permission to raise the price to $3 in the U.S. 3 weeks ago.
It should be $6 a gallon. I repeat it should be the $6 gallon based on the price of Oil.
Why should they 6/gallon and who is subsidizing the other 3.50/gallon.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: charrison
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Stunt
Dave, instead of complaining about these companies, invest in them!
Oil is a commodity and most suppliers of commodities take a percentage off the top for a product with high demand and limited supply. I don't see you complaining about steel prices, seafood prices, gold prices, software prices, etc
All these companies take a bit of the top, all generate profits, all are deserving of those profits. Fact is, oil companies are not any more profitable than many other industries, including pharma, software, high-tech, other metal producers. Oil companies are not out there to be a charity for people!
On a lighter note, I invested some money out of my savings during university last August, and it's up 77%.
I fully support higher oil costs...everything about them is good.
I didn't say it wasn't.
Gas prices should in fact refelct the real costs.
Based on price per barrel now, Gas should be at $6 a gallon but they know that would cripple the Global Economy not just the U.S.
They were given permission to raise the price to $3 in the U.S. 3 weeks ago.
It should be $6 a gallon. I repeat it should be the $6 gallon based on the price of Oil.
Why should they 6/gallon and who is subsidizing the other 3.50/gallon.
Oh come on, you already know the answer to that question.
So you spend more on gas, way less on the rest of your goods and services...cry me a river :roll:Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
The Man continues to screw the little guy.
Corporate interests ship American jobs to China. China, being less energy-efficient, requires more energy to make the products we used to make. Now we have more competition for oil. Up go prices. So not only do you lose your job, you have to pay a hell of a lot more to fuel your car and heat your house. Thanks cons!
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Up another 20 cents yesterday, many stations now bewtween $2.40 and $2.60 here.
Many stations now over $3 in California as they start heading towards $4 :thumbsup:
Originally posted by: piasabird
Thes are probably the same people that keep buying the Ford Expedition and cant figure out whay Gas costs so much. The rest of the world is using more gas. When everyone in China decides they can buy a car, we are in trouble.
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Up another 20 cents yesterday, many stations now bewtween $2.40 and $2.60 here.
Many stations now over $3 in California as they start heading towards $4 :thumbsup:
Went down $.10 here. $2.15 on Thursdays.
Not really. China sets the price for oil, and all that, and given that the price has jumped it was actually costing the Chinese refiners money so imports dropped and they worked with the inventories they had available to them for exports. At least that's what I've been reading.Originally posted by: Engineer
It was strange to see China had actually dropped oil useage by 1% through the first half of the year vs the previous year (thead here earlier).
Originally posted by: hardwareguru84
Not really. China sets the price for oil, and all that, and given that the price has jumped it was actually costing the Chinese refiners money so imports dropped and they worked with the inventories they had available to them for exports. At least that's what I've been reading.Originally posted by: Engineer
It was strange to see China had actually dropped oil useage by 1% through the first half of the year vs the previous year (thead here earlier).
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Up another 20 cents yesterday, many stations now bewtween $2.40 and $2.60 here.
Many stations now over $3 in California as they start heading towards $4 :thumbsup:
Went down $.10 here. $2.15 on Thursdays.
Where the heck are you that Gas actually went down a dime???
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Up another 20 cents yesterday, many stations now bewtween $2.40 and $2.60 here.
Many stations now over $3 in California as they start heading towards $4 :thumbsup:
Went down $.10 here. $2.15 on Thursdays.
Where the heck are you that Gas actually went down a dime???
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!Originally posted by: dontknow1
Have you figured out how much you pay for a gallon of any liquid material soda/ perfume/ cough syrup etc, You will see that you pay a lot more for those liquids than you do gas.