Gas Raped

[billybob_81067]

My beast. One 15 gallon tank, One 17gallon.
Cost me 80 bucks in diesel the other day.
20 bucks gets me 1/2 a tank.
Brent.

Heck yeah!!! I've got a 95 powerstroke. At least they're pretty good on fuel eh? And actually if you fill them both up completely full they'll hold a little over 40 gallons total. :)

WOOT... I'm glad I don't pay for my fuel!

[Ov3rmind]

I don't think gas prices are nearly high enough.

[undescriptive]

instead of complaining about the high prices, get a smaller engined and lighter Vehicle!

who in their right mind needs a V8 4+ L block that can move the 2.5 ton truck, when you could get a 2L,1 ton truck that will do JUST THE SAME!

Buy a mini or something....

260 miles to a tank... $10 to fill it...(if that)

[Bear_Claw]

Well see some of us USE these kinda trucks. I doquite a bit of sidee work and some coustomizing and am working on starting like a weekend coustom shop. Current projects on the go are:

Mini Motorcycle for a Compition next month (race)
Coustom Bike For my mother (yeah she rides)
Diesel motorcycle building with my bro
and Eventually Build myself a bike.

So i do ALOT of parts runs and alot of the stuff i geting is HEAVY (the diesel engine and trans for my bros bike weeighs in at 800+ pounds) A smaller truck would have had some troubles with that let alone all the other stuff in the truck (tools other parts and soo on).

So when Fuel prices starts takeing a LARG chunck out of my profits from the way i make my LIVING i gona complain.

For a dail driver I DO own a car a 1987 VW Golf Diesel but it just cant suffice what i NEED the truck for.

My trucks a early 1994 F250 XLT 2wd Ex Cab Diesel (7.3 IDI TURBO Ie non powerstroke). Gets me 17-18mpg and cost me around $90cdn to fill it. Diesel here is 83.9/liter

Heres a pic of mine together


P.S. Lets see a 2.0L ANYTHING huall 3000lbs up a 6% grade. The f250 does this with out even breaking a weat. a 2.0L Minipickup would DIE trying as this hill in mention is 3kms LONG. Heck the trucks temp gauge dont even get past the N for normal lol.

[Lohman446]

instead of complaining about the high prices, get a smaller engined and lighter Vehicle!

who in their right mind needs a V8 4+ L block that can move the 2.5 ton truck, when you could get a 2L,1 ton truck that will do JUST THE SAME!

Buy a mini or something....

260 miles to a tank... $10 to fill it...(if that)

Curious.. what 2L mini truck gets 40+ MPG? Or are we talking a Cooper Mini - which I still don't think gets 40+ MPG

[Lohman446]

Living in Arkansas rules.

Except for the living in Arkansas part

[M-a-s-sDriver]

I would love to see 2 liters and 2000 lbs pull my 3-horse Logan over Donner summit without turning to molten slag.
Diesel is your best alternative for power and mileage available.
I've put a high-flow exhaust, larger garret turbo and Superchip program in this one, makes about 320 horses and over 600 lb. ft. of torque, AND gets 17 mpg.
NOTHING small or midsize comes close. Those trucks work well for people like my carpenters who commute a ways, carry a few things like their tools and thier dog, but they still only get about 20 mpg. Try and tow anything with it and the wind knocks them around like a paper cup.
Brent.

[SlipknotX556]

Cost me 20 bucks to fill my tank from 3/4 empty. A full tank will last me a week and a half. Love my neon :).

[dj89]

Wish I got a bigger truck but they just cost to much, when i'm pulling 4 + tons up a hill its not a nice thing to see.

[bam wannabe]

Except for the living in Arkansas part

[Bear_Claw]

I think i got every one beat milage wise here with my Daily Driver.

The volkswagen goes for 650kms (403miles) on only 40l (10 gallons) of fuel. It averages me 2 weeks at 45mpg all city driving. Gotta love a TINY diesel engine in a small car. Heck my cars ANCIET too boot 1987 VW Golf Diesel

But as i said i NEED my truck on the weekends and it gets expensive to run it.

[billybob_81067]

I would love to see 2 liters and 2000 lbs pull my 3-horse Logan over Donner summit without turning to molten slag.
Diesel is your best alternative for power and mileage available.
I've put a high-flow exhaust, larger garret turbo and Superchip program in this one, makes about 320 horses and over 600 lb. ft. of torque, AND gets 17 mpg.
NOTHING small or midsize comes close. Those trucks work well for people like my carpenters who commute a ways, carry a few things like their tools and thier dog, but they still only get about 20 mpg. Try and tow anything with it and the wind knocks them around like a paper cup.
Brent.

Hey Brent... are you on thedieselstop.com ? If not you should check it out!

[AGD202]

this gas price stuff does suck..... its 2.05 here... and i never thought i would see the day saying 2.05 was really cheap

[Maggot6]

Whenever I buy a car, I am probably going to get the smallest car that runs on desiel(sp)...
I wont complain

[grw4w34]

Im probably going to trade my truck in for a small car. Gas is up in the $2.70s here but seems to have gone down a little bit over the past couple weeks. Im not going to be surprised to see $3.00 here though.