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Hat Tip to Sugi!
Save On Gas! Buy A Beater Subaru Brat!
It's no mystery that buying a new pious Hybrid to save money on gas is a bit counter-productive. Yeah, you'll spare pennies at the pump and score points with the eco-snob crowd, but the cost of that new car is likely to still end up costing you more than what you'll be saving on gas. But what if you could save gas with a car that's hardly costs anything to buy? That's what these gearheads are trying to do. They've parked their full-size trucks and bought old beaters for daily driver duties. Proving it can be done in style, one guy even went for a vintage Subaru Brat complete with rear-facing jump-seats! You hear that truck guys? Now you've got "gas prices" as the perfect excuse to indulge in that secret little Japanese fantasy you've always had.[CNN]
Hat Tip to Sugi!
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Proposed Gas Tax Holiday Panned As Gimmick; Also, Water Is Wet
Floating around the policy wonk-o-sphere and on the front page of most of the news dailies today is this idea of a temporary holiday on Federal gas taxes for the summer driving season. Presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-copycat) have hopped on the "good idea" bandwagon, while Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) rides on the "not-so-good idea" wagon-for-one. Analysts at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, along with Greg Mankiw, former chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers are both saying "Not so fast!" Heck, even Bush's spokeswoman Dana Perino is saying it's a bad idea. Seems these economics experts think that something crazy called "Supply and demand" will cause consumption to rise as prices fall, and since capacity is at a peak, prices will just go back to where they were before the tax holiday. More »
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DC Choir Director Prays For Cheap Go-Go Juice In San Francisco
We've tried taking over a major oil-producing country. We've tried making fuel out of food crops. We've even tried making hybrid SUVs. Not one of those solutions has lowered gas prices, so how about praying 'em down? Choir director Rocky Twyman has come out to San Francisco from DC to take a shot at invoking some divine intervention at some of the costliest gas pumps in the land. He suggests that, in addition to praying for cheaper gas, folks should walk more and use carpools... wait, isn't that cheating?[Associated Press]
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Gas Is $5.40 Per Gallon On The Cali Coast, We Cry
Think the prices at your local pump are high? If you aren't in California, don't feel so bad. Sure, you may be paying $4 per gallon, but whatever. Because as our auto-loving friends on the Cali coast know, yes, it really does cost $5.40 per gallon. You non-Americans may scoff, what with European prices being around eight thousand dollars per gallon, but for us this cost is simply outrageous. Don't oil companies know this is America? We'll never stand for such prices. Or at least we'll just sit here in our cars and wait it out. [CNN]
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Racing USA's the self-proclaimed "most frequently shopped, independently owned Nascar store in the world." That's probably true considering Nascar's official store ain't so independently owned. But now the rubbin'-is-racin' store's gone and one-upped the "official store" by providing one helluva employee benefit given the ever-upwardly-moving price of gas. The company all about promoting the oval-track racers will now guarantee employees' gas at $2.85 per gallon when they come to work. Guess they'll still have to pay full price for gas for track days, but you know what else they get as a benefit? All the Nascar tchotchkes they can carry. Actually, we can't verify that — but the deal on gas ain't too shabby. Full press release below the jump.
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Nascar Store Gives Employees Nascar Tchotchkes For Nothing, Gas For Free
Racing USA's the self-proclaimed "most frequently shopped, independently owned Nascar store in the world." That's probably true considering Nascar's official store ain't so independently owned. But now the rubbin'-is-racin' store's gone and one-upped the "official store" by providing one helluva employee benefit given the ever-upwardly-moving price of gas. The company all about promoting the oval-track racers will now guarantee employees' gas at $2.85 per gallon when they come to work. Guess they'll still have to pay full price for gas for track days, but you know what else they get as a benefit? All the Nascar tchotchkes they can carry. Actually, we can't verify that — but the deal on gas ain't too shabby. Full press release below the jump.
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At least that's what Glenn Zimmerman, a reporter at the local Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ insinuates may not happen in the not-so-positive effects-of-capitalism case we reported on earlier today. He's questioning whether the local Marathon gas station owner who, after the victim allegedly showed up on site looking to and eventually causing a ruckus, reportedly shot his BP-owning competitor in the head will end up being charged with anything. And all this over three pennies on the gallon. Jeez, can't we all just get along?
Gas Station Owner May Not Be Charged In Shooting Death Of Competitor
At least that's what Glenn Zimmerman, a reporter at the local Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ insinuates may not happen in the not-so-positive effects-of-capitalism case we reported on earlier today. He's questioning whether the local Marathon gas station owner who, after the victim allegedly showed up on site looking to and eventually causing a ruckus, reportedly shot his BP-owning competitor in the head will end up being charged with anything. And all this over three pennies on the gallon. Jeez, can't we all just get along?
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So there's these two stations over on Fort Street near Springwells in Detroit. One's a BP and the other's a Marathon station. Both are known for offering pretty decent gas prices downtown and we've bought gas at both stations depending on which station seemed to have the daily price leverage over the other. But apparently the penny price war between the two stations we'd always taken advantage of has now gone deadly. Last night BP station owner Jawad Bazzi got a bullet to the head over a 3-cent difference in the cost of regular unleaded. Here's what we're told happened:
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Detroit Gas War Turns Deadly, Station Owner Killed Over 3 Cent Price Bump
So there's these two stations over on Fort Street near Springwells in Detroit. One's a BP and the other's a Marathon station. Both are known for offering pretty decent gas prices downtown and we've bought gas at both stations depending on which station seemed to have the daily price leverage over the other. But apparently the penny price war between the two stations we'd always taken advantage of has now gone deadly. Last night BP station owner Jawad Bazzi got a bullet to the head over a 3-cent difference in the cost of regular unleaded. Here's what we're told happened:
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Gas Hits Five Dollars a Gallon In California, The End Times Draw Ever More Near
Although AAA of California is reporting some drivers are now paying $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, local Cali station KSBW found gas stations in Gorda, south of Big Sur, currently charging $5 per gallon for gas. While that's obviously an isolated occurrence, the average price is getting pretty high up the cost meter. For instance in Salinas, AAA recorded an average of $3.39 per gallon. Santa Cruz is at an average of $3.37 per gallon. Yes, the gas prices in California are always higher than elsewhere in the country, but this is getting ridiculous. Something must be done! Oh, Toyota — please come and save us. If they only could get every individual in the United States to drive a Prius — then all we'd have to worry about is cows farting. Also, we'd be living in a fantasy. (Hat tip to SwatLax!) [via KSBW]
Ford's Alan Mulally thinks a gas tax could be the way to go. [Detroit News]
Ann Arbor EPA lab comes up with 93 gadgets that don't help save gas. [Detroit News]
Apparently the temperature ain't the only thing that's sky high in Death Valley these days. [Winding Road]
Is it in some way ironically terrible the next OPEC production meeting's occurring on September 11th? [Bloomberg]
Michigan's got the nation's highest gas prices. #$%@^! [Detroit News]
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Audi R8 Diesel To Get 30 MPG?
We tossed it over the back fence back in January, and now the UK web car daily AutoExpress has caught it. They've supposedly uncovered that Audi's made a decision on the deets for the oil-burning torque-heavy version of the supercar that we've been tweaking as of late. They claim the Brucegasmic automaker will drop the 4.2-liter V8 TDI engine that's currently powering the Q7 SUV into the engine bay of the R8. In The Q7, it produces 322 HP with 561 lb-ft of torque but AutoExpress claims this morning they'll be further tuning that engine up to 350 hp and 590 lb-ft o' torque. When hooked up to either the R8's six-speed manual or the six-speed R-tronic tranny, they're betting the R8 should be capable of about a five second 0-60 time with a top speed of 160 mph. But here's the kicker — it'll get 30 mpg. Both quick and fuel-efficient and wait, there's more — the diesel version supposedly will drop with a price tag around $30,000 less than the petrol version in Europe. Maybe we'll wait to spot the diesel version rather than the silly little gas one Audi has traipsing around town. More »
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A Major Monday Meijer Dilemma: Fill Up For Cheap Or Help Out The Environment
With the mercury rising into the 90's, today's the first ozone action day of the year in Southeast Michigan. Coincidentally it's happening just as prices are beginning to rise, which according to AAA's Michigan office, the average price for a gallon of regular rose by a penny — to hit $3.04 today. Which is why the Detroit News is cluing us in on an interesting AM dilemma. Bargain box store Meijer making the move upward this afternoon as well according to text alerts sent to consumers in the area that they'll be pumping up the price at 1:30 PM at a local area store. Seems like you'd expect a flood of locals to hit the station during lunch break. But the wrinkle is because today's an ozone action day, you're urged not to fill up your tank until after 1:30 PM. Thus the dilemma: ignoring for a moment how dick it was for Meijer to pop up prices on an ozone action day — do you fill up on the cheap this morning before the price change, or do you wait until after the EPA says it's best for the area to fill up, but feel a lighter pocketbook because of it? Talk amongst yourself below and let us know what you'll do. More »
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