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I'm off for the Holiday now until Tuesday. Want to wish everyone a good Memorial weekend. Have a great time and if any of you are traveling, if you can afford the gas, then please drive safe.

Kansas Viking wrote:I'm off for the Holiday now until Tuesday. Want to wish everyone a good Memorial weekend. Have a great time and if any of you are traveling, if you can afford the gas, then please drive safe.

I have to work the entire weekend. But I hope everyone else has a safe one, if they travel. Still, it's lookin' like a good barbecue weekend!


Dawn

I am going in overtime this weekend

it sucks to be poor .....

Speaking of gas ... Argun Murti, the hotshot oil analyst for Goldman Sachs, is predicting crude to reach $200/barrel in 6-12 months. That would probably equate to around $5.50/gallon retail.

As bad as it is here in the States it's a lot worse in the UK and Europe where they have historically paid much higher prices for gasoline than we have. In London a liter of petrol is currently around 1.10 (British Pound). If I have my conversion rates accurate that would be about $8.26/gallon in US dollars. Ouch!

I don't even want to know what my SUV would fetch in a trade-in.

DeeEss57 wrote:

Still, it's lookin' like a good barbecue weekend!


Dawn

Correct-O-Mundo Dawn. That is pretty much what I am going to do the whole weekend. Grill some good food and have a cold one or two.

Mr. X wrote:
I don't even want to know what my SUV would fetch in a trade-in.

Nothing in some places. I was watching a news segment the other morning and a few places will not even talk to customers about trading in an SUV. They can't get any offer for them if they take them in a trade in.

Kansas Viking wrote: Nothing in some places. I was watching a news segment the other morning and a few places will not even talk to customers about trading in an SUV. They can't get any offer for them if they take them in a trade in.

Gosh, that's discouraging. I just had the tranny re-built last year and have sunk some other money into so I'll probably be looking at driving it until it can't run anymore (and getting 12-15 mpg in the process). Of course it's got 4-wheel drive and in NoDak that's not a bad thing to have when you need it, and I've needed it on more than a few occasions.

Everyone have a safe Memorial Day. Will be working Friday and Saturday and then we have to be closed for Sunday and Monday.
Planning a barbeque and kicking back and having a cold one.

Mr. X wrote:Speaking of gas ... Argun Murti, the hotshot oil analyst for Goldman Sachs, is predicting crude to reach $200/barrel in 6-12 months. That would probably equate to around $5.50/gallon retail.

As bad as it is here in the States it's a lot worse in the UK and Europe where they have historically paid much higher prices for gasoline than we have. In London a liter of petrol is currently around 1.10 (British Pound). If I have my conversion rates accurate that would be about $8.26/gallon in US dollars. Ouch!

I don't even want to know what my SUV would fetch in a trade-in.

British Pound is currently trading at 1.9788 USD per GBP, so a liter of petrol is 2.18/liter and there are 4.56 liters in a gallon, so it's actually $9.98/gallon. Yikes!

Of course, 50% of all cars sold in Europe are clean diesels that have substantially (in some cases as much as 60%) better fuel economy than US cars.

Here are three interesting articles concerning European fuel efficiency, whether the US can or should follow Europe's lead and what Europeans look for in their cars:

http://tinyurl.com/3y2h3c

http://tinyurl.com/2ekbvs

http://tinyurl.com/5hkzaz

BGM

1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.785411784 liter

1 gallon [UK] = 4.54609 liter

I still people buying SUV's though

not me I bought a corollaCE last year
and when I replace the van its going to
be a hybrid or staight electric car for me.

Mr. X wrote:1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.785411784 liter

1 gallon [UK] = 4.54609 liter

Ah, I see where I erred. Thanks for the correction!

BGM

Happy memorial day to everyone and RIP to all my fallen comrades

they have a presentation for memorial day
(kinda like a play Im guessing and I have been
wanting to go for years) this year I'm going to go.

I served in the army back in late eighties 87-90
in fact I got out and the letter from the Department
of Defense and the army was already at my house letting
me know I might have to report back and to the first gulf
war. Not exactly the first thing you want to see in the mail.

Happy Memorial Day Folks! Got the ribs sizzling and just kicking back!