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Old May 12, 2008 | 07:44 AM
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.....gas....it's still cheaper than...bottled water...soda....beer....etc..etc....[8D]




not for long.
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 08:17 AM
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If you dot liek the gas prices then I guess you have to walk... and who wants to do that when you can cruise?!?!?!?!? And that being said its still less painful that filling up a SUV or a gas hog of a car... these are the times that we live in...

gas isnt going to stop going up... at least not for a long long long time!

Get out there and enjoy the weather and put some miles on no matter what the gas price is!
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 09:11 AM
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Wasn't paying attention earlier today and had to flip over to reserve 20+ miles from closest station.

Pulled into the rural Exxon and paid $4.119 per gallon! Another 20 miles down the road it was $3.69. [:@]
so it cost you an extra 2.15 to fill up, look at it this way, better than pushing. plus if you knew that another station was 20 miles away, you could have gotten away with just 1 gal, then filled up when you got there.
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 09:18 AM
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For that extre 2.15 you could have had a Mt Dew and a snack cake.
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 10:13 AM
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I am spending $750 a month in my car for my business....a $ 20 fill up on my bike, big f%*#@*g deal.

Ride safe and enjoy it while you can.
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 10:33 AM
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The New Five Dollar Bill


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Old May 12, 2008 | 10:33 AM
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The wife and I both ride our own; like many others, riding is our "therapy," and I'e been doing it for 43 years this summer. As I recall, when I started, gas was somethin like 22 cents per gallon......lately we've thought about cutting back on some of the riding, especially since I got laid off a month ago. But as others have figured the cost of a fill up on a bike, so have we.........we ain't cuttin back no more! Screw it! We're riding! In fact.....we're riding even more now cause it's a lot cheaper than the 4wd pick up or even her econo box car! This weekend we did something like 300 miles. "Ride, c'mon baby ride!"
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 01:16 PM
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Hey 100thRK - Right on man!!!
 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 01:39 PM
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ORIGINAL: Mississippi Bagger

Wasn't paying attention earlier today and had to flip over to reserve 20+ miles from closest station.

Pulled into the rural Exxon and paid $4.119 per gallon! Another 20 miles down the road it was $3.69. [:@]
If you thought you were getting screwed, you could have only bought half a gallon and ridden to the cheaper station! That way, they'd have only screwed you out of 25 cents....

 
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Old May 12, 2008 | 02:48 PM
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As of this morning in CT at the Mobil:

Regular : 3.969

Hi-Test : 4.269

Diesel : 4.659

Only pennies difference between any of the stations you go to.





 
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