gas prices

[Serious Satellite]

MRI's are somewhat common when you have M.S. New lesions popping up. It's the only reason I retired early. The Serious Satellite is my project that keeps me busy and I like it. I have to go slower than most, but I'm getting it done.

I get mad a lot , but what the hell.

It sounds like you've done what I want to do to the 318. My good buddy Tim is going to help me yank out the engine and the tranny and we'll rebuild it together. The 318 will be a nice engine when it's more toward the .340 side of the house.

[billzilla]

I don't know what mileage I get. My fuel gauge is dead -- or something in the wiring is hosed and doesn't work. I haven't fixed it yet. I've run out of gas twice and overflowed it yesterday erring on the side of caution.

Sorry to hear about your MS, but it sounds like you're staying active and keeping on top of it, so THAT is good!

[Smellslike1974]

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Im putting a 400 in my satellite,i was told a v8 is a v8 and the gas situation would be the same between small block and big block....

Oh Well,my dreams to build this car,and im going to drive it.


I dont care if its just down the road and back

[roelbest]

we are paying $10/gallon here inthe UK, and that hurts when you drive American cars!!

[Smellslike1974]

we are paying $10/gallon here inthe UK, and that hurts when you drive American cars!!

What is $10 of our money equalivelant to there?

[RS23-71]

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Im putting a 400 in my satellite,i was told a v8 is a v8 and the gas situation would be the same between small block and big block....

Oh Well,my dreams to build this car,and im going to drive it.


I dont care if its just down the road and back

Well let me see... a friend of mine and myself both had the same yr suburbans. Mine had a 350 and his had a 454. I got around 16 miles to the gallon and he got 9. so I'm not quite understanding what you mean by "i was told a v8 is a v8 and the gas situation would be the same between small block and big block...." unless you mean we both payed the same amount per gallon but then I had to fill up 1/2 as much.

[roelbest]

At the moment it is £5 equal $10. The weird thing on this island is, we put gas in, measured in litres, but all comsumption gets worked out in mpg, and our cars show mph on the speedo. Go figure!
Anyway, it is just over £1.10 for a litre, which is the most expensive we have ever had

[Smellslike1974]

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Im putting a 400 in my satellite,i was told a v8 is a v8 and the gas situation would be the same between small block and big block....

Oh Well,my dreams to build this car,and im going to drive it.


I dont care if its just down the road and back

Well let me see... a friend of mine and myself both had the same yr suburbans. Mine had a 350 and his had a 454. I got around 16 miles to the gallon and he got 9. so I'm not quite understanding what you mean by "i was told a v8 is a v8 and the gas situation would be the same between small block and big block...." unless you mean we both payed the same amount per gallon but then I had to fill up 1/2 as much.

Hmm

Well my first car was a 79 lebaron with a 318,i was told by my dad,(and he made it a very big deal about it) that it was gonna be too expensive to drive,well the lebaron was a lost cause(frame rust) so then i got my satellite,and since he had a buddy who had a 400 sitting around,we got that,i had asked my dad,on how the 318 was an expensive motor but the 400 wouldnt,and he said a v8 is a v8 youll be spending the same on gas but you have more power.I was fine with my 318 there was no problems with it,but i figured id try the 400.

now my dad does stuff like this all the time,its just it gets very annoying
well i gotta go take a very expensive gas guzzling 318 out and replace it with a more effecient engine

[moparmodeler]

I guess having a slant six in my Satellite is not so bad. Expescially at 20-21 MPG.

[1971SSP]

My 318 gets around 16/17 MPG....there was a /6 RL Satellite around me a couple years back, but the undercarriage was rusted so bad, they ended up parting it out.

/6's & 318's rock for MPG

[billzilla]

If I had to guess, I'd suppose mine gets around 12-15-ish given the fact that it's bored out, tweaked and likely needs a tuneup and other adjustments. The carb is set very rich (fumes, bogs, etc).

I'm really impressed with the mileage on the slant six! I could go for one of those if the opportunity ever arose.

But yeah, a 440 is going to burn more gas than a 318. It's simple physics - you have more displacement to have more fuel combustion to push a larger cylinder.

[bulletpruf]

so if gas gets to $ 4.oo /gal like they say ,is it going to keep you guys from driving youre cars as much this summer? im lucky to get 5-6 mpg so it could definately put a hurting on my cruising ,jeff

Gas hell! I've got a 40 foot diesel pusher motor home...8 mpg...150 gallon tank and I go to 15 NASCAR/IRL/NHRA races a year!

Oh for the old days when diesel was cheaper!

Diesel prices are killing me! I've been home from Iraq for 7 weeks and I've put 12,000 miles on my 2003 diesel 7.3 Excursion. In the middle of moving from Texas to Washington D.C. and have a few more trips to make. I have 8 cars, so I'm towing a LOT. Truck gets 18 mpg unloaded and 13 or so towing. I've paid up to $4.27/gal for diesel. Getting close to that $200 fill up.

Scott

[landon1]

i was getting around 15 with my 440 when i first got it, but now i get anywhere from 8-12 (hopefully headers and new electronic ignition will help a lil bit)

i had a slant 6 225 dodge pickup with a 4 speed OD and it only got about 12...i know people with 318/360 pickups that get about the same....i figure because that lil 225 had to work hard as hell to move a 4XXX pound truck

[71GTX]

Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas

A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans' consumption.

Polls show that a majority of Americans support policies that would reduce greenhouse gases. But when it comes to paying for it, it's a different story.

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., wants to help cut consumption with a gas tax but some don't agree with the idea, according to a new poll by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

The poll, scheduled to be released on Thursday, shows 48 percent don't support paying even a penny more, 28 percent would pay up to 50 cents more, 10 percent would pay more than 50 cents and 8 percent would pay more than a dollar.

"I don't want to pay more, I don't think anyone wants to," said Karen Deacon, a motorist.

"I think that wouldn't make any sense," said Frankie Hoe, a motorist. "Ugh ... who's making the money from all this and where is that money going? Is it going to go green? I don't see any green things anywhere."

The automobile is the nation's biggest polluter; Americans use more gas than the next 20 countries combined.

Some environmentalists and economists say pain at the pump may be bad for Americans, but good medicine for a sick planet.

But others say it wouldn't change much. Even if Americans abandoned their cars, global emissions would fall by less than one percent.

"A tax on gas is a way to reduce dependence on import oil, reduce traffic congrestion and reduce carbon emissions," said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute.

The Earth Policy Institute proposes raising the gas tax 30 cents per gallon each year over a decade and offset with a reduction of income taxes, Brown said.

David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said the proposal wouldn't help long term.

"I think when you are talking about raising gas prices, there may be short-term reduction, put off vacations, but bottom line is over long term, that isn't going to have much of an effect," Ridenour said.

While Dingell's idea will likely lie dormant until after the 2008 election, the idea of carbon taxes is not. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain all support some type of system that either directly or indirectly will raise prices to penalize polluters.

FOX News' William La Jeunesse contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339589,00.html

[Eric]

what an idiot.....just another government tax we'd never get rid of!