My theory why many people will never stop buying gas guzzling cars

[forgotten_aria]

They fill to $20 and don't realized that not everyone has to fill up as often as they do.

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[crs.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was going to post about the $50 tankful of gas I bought the other day, but forgot to.

I broke the $50 mark the other day with a fillup. I ran the tank way way down trying to hold out for the prices to go back down... And the prices didn't go back down. Oops.

[cos]

I don't try wait out rises. Rather, I pay attention to which direction prices are going. If they're heading down, I wait until my tank is near empty. If they're heading up, I fill up at the next convenient time when I'm passing a gas station, if my tank is below 1/2.

[crs.livejournal.com]

Every other place had peaked and settled back down like 3 days before this... If my place followed the curve of all the other places it was due to drop like 6-8c a gallon before I had to fill.

As it is, I didn't actually lose money from this wait.

[coraline]

my lord, what moster-sized gas tank do you have?
my "empty" light goes on after about 10 gallons...

[crs.livejournal.com]

This was 16.5 gallons of premium at $3.119.

It is, in theory, a 17-gallon tank. The empty light had been on for some time, but you could still see the white of the "0" tick mark to the left of the needle on my gauge. (Funny thing about my car is that instead of E and F, the gas gauge goes from 0 to 1...)

[crs.livejournal.com]

Oh, and those 16.5 gallons lasted about two and a half weeks.