For the obvious gas price BS I thought about downsizing. Naturally the car sales ghouls are jacking the price of good gas milage cars/trucks and won't give **** for your truck. I went through this crap in the gas shortages of the 70's. Bought a 400 c.i. Grand Prix and a month later you couldn't get gas for it. Anyway I panicked and traded down for better milage and lost my ***. What burns me is our government that happily takes my friggen taxes knew we needed alternate fuel sources 30 YRS. AGO. By now they should have developed engines that would burn 40% ethenol. I firmly believe if they got everyone in the country into kiddy cars that get 50 mpg, the oil companies would raise gas to $10 gal. to compensate. Well I get 14-15 mpg. with my 2001 3.9 standard shift SC SB 2WD. Gotta be the lightest truck (WT) in the line up for that year. My problem is I do a lot of city driving and it's tough getting out of 3rd gear, much less get to 5th.. So my bitch post is over. I figure if gas hangs around $3 from now on it'll cost me around $1500.00 more a year to drive the truck. A lot of dough but cheaper than driving a tinker toy I CAN'T FIT INTO.

 

This is one reason why my truck isn't my primary vehicle anymore. However, I'll never trade it in for something smaller because, lets face it, a truck is very handy to have. Now I commute to work solely on a motorcycle. At 45 miles to the gallon, it saves alot of cash, and makes commuting more fun. If I commuted to work using only my truck, I'd guess my fuel costs would be about $2000 a year. The only problem I had was the lack of driving my truck. I think I dried up some seals.

 

Yeah, no more scooters for me. 30 yrs. ago I had an accident that scared the **** out of me. I had a 90' Toyota 4x4 I bought new. I put 55K on it, then my kid put another 40K on it. Then my kid left home to go out his own (thank GOD) and I had a company car I drove 99% of the time. So the Toy sat for 2 yrs. off and on. When I fired it up every friggen seal leaked. Well not every one, but a lot. So I traded on this Dodge. I shoulda kept the Toy..

 

99 Ram Sport, QC, 5.2 auto. Currently about $52.00 to fill. I fill three or four times a WEEK! Our refineries are working at 96% capacity, so even if we had ships stacked up waiting to bring in the oil, we couldn't do anything with it anyway. Thanks to the enviro-whackos, we cant drill off of any coast, plus we can't drill in Alaska anymore than we already do. They also wont let us build anymore refineries. The liberal contingent in this country is driving us straight to hell.

 

I guy I met in the Ace Hareware today had a '87 Toyota 2wd for sale for 2K. In '87 I bought a new Toyota 4X4 for 10K. I almost bought the guys truck, I'm getting so pissed. It had one of them there carborated R22 4 clys. (an engine you can work on without a PHD in Autoemishionicx) w /102,000 on it. Thats like new on a R22.

 

just look around for a cheap a$$ car. i could by an 89 jeep for 700 but i dont know how much better that would be

or trade it in for a diesel. they get like what 23 mpg

 

I'll bet 3 months ago I could have got this that Toy. for $600. I got his number so I might offer him a standing offer of $1200. I'm devorced and in the past found maintaining a town runaround car and a road truck for 1 guy a $$$ PIA. Especially since we got friggen emissions BS around here.

 

Yup if you want a truck like this you got to pay. Dont feel too bad though. The stupid german government put a 80% tax on fuel years ago so with the high prices of fuel we have to pay over 5 bucks a gallon of gas here outside of base. That would make filling up a ram over $125.00 a fill up. Now I get to buy my gas on base for 2.57 last time I checked but if I didnt have that base gas youd see me in a yugo. lol