Moose said:
"The price of gas isn't a big factor for us when at home, simply because we
put few miles on our cars."
Bet you can't top our recent driving history. I took our 2007 Volvo V70
into my local tire shop to find the source of a slight vibration that was
bugging me, and they couldn't believe it had just turned over 4000 miles. I
have "oldies" for local driving, so the V70 mostly gets out for out-of-town
doctors appointments.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Cost of Living [was: The Cub]
> On 2/22/2012 5:24 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>
>> All this talk about the J-3 Cub takes me back to when I could rent
>> an
>> Aeronca 7AC for just $12 an hour wet on wheels or skis. Now we have
>> $5/gal
>> gas in Los Angeles and it's not going to get any better soon. We're at
>> roughly $3.55 here in Phoenix, which is going to really impact my spring
>> wildflower expeditions.
>>
>> How's everyone else doing?
>
> The price of gas isn't a big factor for us when at home, simply because we
> put few miles on our cars.
>
> The reversal where diesel is as or more expensive than premium is a
> bummer, though. When we bought our little diesel RV,
> it not only got better mileage than comparable gas models, but diesel was
> cheaper. At least it still gets decent mileage.
>
> Although I really didn't want to make the drive in a hurry, and we had
> accommodations awaiting us, I did calculate that
> round trip diesel fuel would cost about the same as our round trip air
> fares to Montana last fall.
>
> We probably will make the trip again by road, but at leisure. The only
> reason we aren't sure about a cross country trip
> is that the way we like to travel, it would take months. :-)
>
> Merc Diesel Moose
>
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