Average in ABQ seems to be about $2.59.9 this week, with a dime-a-week increase over the last two weeks. abqdan is amused by the American .9 on the end of everything. Such an obsolete gimmick in selling.
Over the last 30 years, I've gone from a '74 Vega to an '84 Rabbit Diesel to a '94 Saturn SL2 to an '04 Saturn VUE. (See a trend there?) Since my annual driving is in the neighborhood of 5k to 6k miles a year, I HADN'T been concerned that about the cost. Of course, I got the VUE in December just when gas started its uphill climb. I'd always consider a hybrid for the future...in 2014. :-) And fewer trips in my current car.
Oh, I did have a hiccup in car buying with several very temporary vehicles between the Vega and the Rabbit. A '66 Plymouth Fury wagon (gas sucking, OMG, gave it to the ex-wife), a Honda Passport 70cc 'motorcycle' (loved this, but it was stolen and found five days later torched), and a '66 Ford Econoline Van (I was afraid to drive more than 100 miles without a fillup, since the gas gauge was broken). What was I thinking!
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Date: 2005-08-16 04:59 am (UTC)Over the last 30 years, I've gone from a '74 Vega to an '84 Rabbit Diesel to a '94 Saturn SL2 to an '04 Saturn VUE. (See a trend there?) Since my annual driving is in the neighborhood of 5k to 6k miles a year, I HADN'T been concerned that about the cost. Of course, I got the VUE in December just when gas started its uphill climb. I'd always consider a hybrid for the future...in 2014. :-) And fewer trips in my current car.
Oh, I did have a hiccup in car buying with several very temporary vehicles between the Vega and the Rabbit. A '66 Plymouth Fury wagon (gas sucking, OMG, gave it to the ex-wife), a Honda Passport 70cc 'motorcycle' (loved this, but it was stolen and found five days later torched), and a '66 Ford Econoline Van (I was afraid to drive more than 100 miles without a fillup, since the gas gauge was broken). What was I thinking!