Crazy Gas Prices

[Dan]

There's no greater feeling than putting 500 miles on a car and then filling the tank to capacity with 9 gallons of gas!

If only the Prius' front seat would go further back I'd always rent it...

[Na Nach]

There's no greater feeling than putting 500 miles on a car and then filling the tank to capacity with 9 gallons of gas!

If only the Prius' front seat would go further back I'd always rent it...

How's the pick up on the car

[whYME]

How's the pick up on the car

It's probably pretty decent. Electric motors generally give you much better torque than gas engines so I imagine it should have pretty good pickup.

[Dan]

How's the pick up on the car

very good

[aygart]

There's no greater feeling than putting 500 miles on a car and then filling the tank to capacity with 9 gallons of gas!

If only the Prius' front seat would go further back I'd always rent it...

I did that eight years ago in a Corolla driving from Lakewood to Toronto when my family still fit. It cost me nine dollars in gas. To go now in my 12 passenger van. . . . .

[e-Lawyer]

check out this video on Bio Fuel from cnn

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2008/07/02/gutierrez.guerrilla.gas.cnn

[aygart]

There are sites that sell some way to use components of water to drive your car. Does anyone know anything about these.

[rover771]

dan, do you get charged a underage fee when you rent with avis?

[Mordy]

guys we should all get motorcycles in israel every frum guy has one we should sell them in lakewood and give them to the rosh yeshivas for free  as a promotion!!!!

Funny, that's actually what my signature pic is:


That's my "Tus Tus" for getting around town. Its a 150cc, can hit 60+mph, and gets 70+ miles per gallon. The tank holds about 1.2 gallons, and will get me about 100 miles per tank.

There's no greater feeling than putting 500 miles on a car and then filling the tank to capacity with 9 gallons of gas!

Ha! Try driving around 100 miles for the week, then filling it up with a little over a gallon!
I get so many comments at the gas station, I told the guy I bought it from I should carry his business cards and charge him for advertising.

Seriously, I drive mine to shul or to my old yeshiva, and park right up next to the door on the sidewalk. My Rosh Yeshiva told me he had the urge to just jump on one day, and I've given his kids rides home on it.
At around $1000-$1500 brand new, these things are no-brainers if you do a lot of local driving by yourself.
I wouldn't recommend it on the highway, and although its a two seater and its possible to get a sidecar, I wouldn't recommend taking passengers regularly.

Also, while we're at it... I'm still surprised so many people prefer automatic transmission cars in this day and age of gas shortages. My Nissan (the back of which is pictured there) consistently gets me more miles per gallon and better pickup than any automatic transmission out there (30+ MPG, a full tank of gas gets me ~ 400miles, not that much farther behind a prius, and a heck of a lot cheaper).

Look at Israel where gas was always more expensive- You see "Rebbishe" looking people on mopeds and motorcycles, and small stick-shift efficient cars. Yet, here in the US where we pride ourselves on being lazy, we consider 2-wheeled motorized vehicles to be "goyish" and prefer to drive large gas guzzling SUVs. Some trends defy logic to me...
http://xkcd.com/437/]
Warning, above link contains language not appropriate for yeshiva boys, but thought it was appropriate for the topic.

(Mods, if the above link is inappropriate for the forum, please feel free to delete it)

[sns]

 Its a 150cc,
At around $1000-$1500 brand new
[/quote]
where do you find a 150cc for a $1000-$1500 brand new?!
ive been lookin around- seemes closer to $3000 and up.
btw what make and model is yours?
also how much does it cost to insure?
(think we need to start a new thread: 'mopeds,scooters')

[Mordy]

Its a 150cc,
At around $1000-$1500 brand new
 
where do you find a 150cc for a $1000-$1500 brand new?!
ive been lookin around- seemes closer to $3000 and up.
btw what make and model is yours?
also how much does it cost to insure?
(think we need to start a new thread: 'mopeds,scooters')

Its a chinese Honda clone, and these things are crazy popular now (all over NYC, and vacation spots like Newport, RI) because they are cheap to own and the parts are mass-produced.
The engine is called the GY6, its designed by Honda and back in the 80's they hired a Chinese manufacturer to build the thing for their ATVs and higher end scooters.

The Chinese are, lets just say, not to keen on copyrights... so they decided to mass produce this engine and build their own bikes out of it. Honda has been trying to sue them for the last 20 years for using their engines in everything from 50cc mopeds to 300cc street bikes and ATVs.

There's a whole underground fanclub of these bikes (referred to as GY6 clones), and you can find tons more info on scootdawg.com, and their forum at scootdawg.proboards59.com.

The $3k ones are more "respected" names like Suzuki, Honda, Vespa, etc... the Chinese ones are literally half the cost, and if you're feeling mechanical, you can have it drop shipped from a warehouse from China for about $950, although you'll usually need to assemble the front chassis and wheel when it comes.

I paid $1000 for mine from a local shop as part of a barter for some work I was doing (I didn't pay 1000, I gave him some work I'd normally charge that much for) for a brand new SunL Adventurer 150cc. Now, before you go buying a chinese bike, I'd SERIOUSLY recommend doing some research on scootdawg first. These engines are great and will last a long time, but the rest of these bikes are not created equal. Some SunL ones are made by Taizhou Chuanl Motorcycle company, which is good, and others are made by Quimco (sp?) or some other lazy chinese manufacturer who's parts may start to fall off after a year.
You can get a good cheap bike that will last you a good several years if you do the proper research.

[grodnoking]

why does it say this:
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very not our motto, but back on topic, whats gas down to by you? $1.97 in NJ

[TimT]

why does it say this:
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very not our motto, but back on topic, whats gas down to by you? $1.97 in NJ

It means its an inactive thread. Might be a newer thread (or 10) since then.

[Iz]

why does it say this:
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very not our motto, but back on topic, whats gas down to by you? $1.97 in NJ

$0.10 in DDF. 

[Super Speed]

why does it say this:
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very not our motto, but back on topic, whats gas down to by you? $1.97 in NJ

Are you on a bumping 2008 threads spree?

[grodnoking]

It means its an inactive thread. Might be a newer thread (or 10) since then.

Well I belive we hold that always post on another thread unless you must open another one. So that line should be taken off the forums

[TimT]

Are you on a bumping 2008 threads spree?

He caught the nostalgia bug from Dan.

[grodnoking]

He caught the nostalgia bug from Dan.

Can't be nostalgia if I was not around back then.

[David Smith]

Can't be nostalgia if I was not around back then.

If everyone talks about the good old days even if the old days weren't better, then you can be nostalgic about something you never experienced.

[Yammer]

If everyone talks about the good old days even if the old days weren't better, then you can be nostalgic about something you never experienced.

The old days was never as good as we make it... We simply don't remember