350 should be doing a burnout??? right?

[daveshapellSVT]

There should be a cut off point to how much a barrel of crude oil can cost. problem is that the government(politicians) are part of the issue. they must somehow be benefitting from high oil prices. Same way they regulate how much a gallon of milk cost they should regulate gas prices. In a way oil is more important then milk. You can get calcuim many different ways you can only use gas to power your car. Which reminds me of another situation. we need to become more efficient. these gay hybrids are barley any better then normal cars and they aren't very driver friendly. electric cars are a joke, you have to recharge them constantly and they have a short range. Now we have the "flex" fuel vehicles where you can run that E85 shit. heres the thing with that. 1 out of 900 gas stations are equiped for ethanol. Plus ethanol doesn't burn as good so you actually get less mpg using it. so the cheapness in price just gets out done by the more frequent fill ups. This country has many problems all of which are making the lives of middle class and poverty striken families impossible. Health insurance is a complete joke. you shouldn't worry about your health 24/7 or how to pay a 2400 hospital bill.. health insurance cost way too much. Sometimes they deny you for " preexsisting conditions"... So even if one could get health insurance who can afford it? Right now my wife and i are having a baby girl and no health insurance company will cover my wife and baby because they are a high risk. I received a quote for just my wife and i after the child is born and it's 300 bucks a month. thats like having a second car payment. Not even including co pays and crap..i only take home 310 a week at my one job. so one entire paycheck is supposed to go to health insurance....America is a scam and we the ppl are getting screwed over while polititians and big company ceo get billions. we gotta turn this shit around.

[vortecman]

good luck to you, man. and i have the answer to the fuel problem... everyone run their cars on homemade moonshine! this is no joke! it is possible and i actually heard about this. but the people making it had to put a poison in it for it to be legal.(which supposedly doesnt hurt your engine) what do yall think about that??!?!!

[daveshapellSVT]

hmm i'd imagine moonshine is very potent. I think we have the technology to make cars that can get 50+mpg on a gas engine. It's just not profitable to produce these vehicles. Cause ppl would fill up less. I myself will never buy a hybrid. I have enough trouble driving my 100hp saturn, i'm not gonna down grade to some 50hp half electric thing thats annoying to drive just to get 10 more mpg..i mean think about our technology and brain power to get things done. NASA started the program to land on the moon in the early 60's. it took 8yrs to get there. 8 yrs to build a space craft to travel to the moon. cars have been around since 1902. in over a 100yrs we can't build a car that can go further on a tank of gas. i mean sure we've had small improvements here and there, but not nearly good enough for a 100yrs... i mean think about it we still buy vehicles from dealerships that get 10-11mpg in the city.. thats rediculous.. every car should get 40+ without comprimising power or comfort, ESPECIALLY, at the prices we pay for cars...

[jason-1995fbody]

Originally Posted by daveshapellSVT

hmm i'd imagine moonshine is very potent. I think we have the technology to make cars that can get 50+mpg on a gas engine. It's just not profitable to produce these vehicles. Cause ppl would fill up less. I myself will never buy a hybrid. I have enough trouble driving my 100hp saturn, i'm not gonna down grade to some 50hp half electric thing thats annoying to drive just to get 10 more mpg..i mean think about our technology and brain power to get things done. NASA started the program to land on the moon in the early 60's. it took 8yrs to get there. 8 yrs to build a space craft to travel to the moon. cars have been around since 1902. in over a 100yrs we can't build a car that can go further on a tank of gas. i mean sure we've had small improvements here and there, but not nearly good enough for a 100yrs... i mean think about it we still buy vehicles from dealerships that get 10-11mpg in the city.. thats rediculous.. every car should get 40+ without comprimising power or comfort, ESPECIALLY, at the prices we pay for cars...

i agree

[daveshapellSVT]

Sorry i vent a little sometimes .. I just think about things like technology and mankind and it sucks that we are not making progress as human beings because a portion of the population is motivatted by greed. We are being held back by these controlling groups.. When i was a kid i certainly imagined things being different by the yr 2008.. Nothing has really changed, just clothing styles and minimal upgrades in entertainment. In the past 26 yrs i've witnessed a heavy wooden, poor color/picture, tv with 3 channels change into a flater, slightly better picture tv with 800 viewable channels... thats pathetic. we are the smartest species on the planet and the best we can do is make a tv flat. Lets cure cancer or aids or create functioning limbs for aputies... How about robots to fight terroism and wars instead of retards strapped with a bomb.. Theres gotta be aliens from other planets just laughing at us. They probably don't want to come within contact with us cause we'd probably shoot them.. Not that i'm inviting little green men to come over and watch americas most funniest. Seriously, i hope by the time i'm 50 something cool happens cause life on earth in the past 100yrs has been a joke. Only thing cool about life is sex, and cool cars. lifting weights is cool too.

[ANGER_TRAIN]

i like hearing you post man. life's strange and it's a journey that's for sure.

reality always conflicts with ideals.

reality is, leaded gas and high compression motors are wasteful from a MPG/emissions standpoint, but they are part of American freedom.

if a bunch of guys doing burnouts with modified motors is hurting the environment, then we're already screwed. and pricing in the oil business is as corrupt as it gets.

i think there are hard times ahead for the world in the near future on all levels, beyond anyone's imagination. i'd start saving and conserving on all levels and start getting more physically/mentally tough, nobody can ever have enough of that.

project cars are so cool, they make life worth living when there's a lot of crap in life to deal with.

[vortecman]

guys! come on! back to the make your own fuel thing! why couldn''t moonshine work? if it is too strong, dillute it a little. anyone?

[daveshapellSVT]

i'm sure it could work. i've actually heard about ppl running there cars on real strong buse.. But it would turn out just like oil. The guy that actually takes the inisiative to produce and sell the stuff will eventually hike up the price. It's all price and demand. Oil or any alternative is needed by the entire planet for everyday purposes. oil and it's alternatives make the world go round and everyone needs it. So these big CEO/organazations know they can charge what ever they want for it and we have no choice but to pay the price. this is why oil should be regulated in some way with a price cap. I dunno if i would trust the government in doing this but hey as long as the price goes down i don't care. i just got gas this morning and for 87 octane it's $3.58 here. And judging that it's summer soon it will go up more. We will probably see $4 bucks a gallon this yr. Oil companies are just inching there way to see just how much we will pay. One day the world will take a stand and hopefully there won't be rioting and caios.. It just completely based on greed.