One4All4Ever said:

I thought Corn can be made into fuel. At least that's what they said on 3-2-1 Contact!

Graycap23 said:

Wow, you're either driving a lot or driving a huge vehicle

I spend that much per gallon and spend about $35 a week. I drive a Corolla, and sometimes I roll into the pump and the person before me spent like $70 to fill their tank. Amazing!

Also, I think the Europeans are pointing out some valuable info. Americans actually have cheap gas! hmm I wonder why...

superspaceboy said:

Contact!

Supposedly all the corn in the world would cover maybe 10% of our gas needs.

evenstar said:

Food prices are killing me.

And your milk's much cheaper than ours: last time I was at Safeway (it's rare), whole milk was over $5/gal.

And we're surrounded by fucking dairy farms.

INSATIABLE said:

Is the temptation there to just sneak out into the middle of the night with a bucket and milk a cow?

JDInteractive said:

As a kid, I had friends with dairy farms, so it was done sans temptation.

But we stole lots of wine grapes.

mdiver said:

INSATIABLE said:

safeway's fucking pricey, i never go there anymore. all i shop at are those 'hometown market' kind of places.

i have a field with cows in it right next to my building

My girlfriend was telling me yesterday about free-arians, she saw them on Oprah.

Basically people who get their food from supermarket dumpsters, and their furniture from the sidewalk.

evenstar said:

True. And I try to stick w/ TJ's, but it's farther away and I do most of my shopping after midnight.


I don't drink milk, but if I did, I'd milk my own damn shit.

NDRU said:

A co-worker told me about it this morning. Doctors and lawyers are doing it.

Fuck man, why not.

mdiver said:

$2.99 gallon - $45 a week

This price is $.70 more than it was last year.

If I could drive a motorcycle in the snow, I'd be saving some gas money.

average gas prices for the U.S. this summer are expected to be $4.00 per gallon.

$3.05 per gallon

$3.19!

$31.21

$3.07 a gallon

$.90 per can of beans HHHEEEEOOOOO!!

sexxydancer said:

AUS$80 to fill the tank in my camry

JustErin said:

Spare a thought for us. It was about 95 cents a litre last time I saw, and that was a couple of months ago. It's probably over a dollar here now.

So, about $3.60-$3.80 a gallon in a country where the average working class person makes no more than $180 a month.

My father in law has an income of about $100 a month so naturally he can't afford to run his old Corolla anymore.

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superspaceboy said:

yeah, but if you make it into fuel, you can't use it for food anymore ...

3.02

Nothing. I don't drive.

NDRU said:

It's called being broke in ridiculously expensive cities. My sister and everyone she knows does that in San Francisco.

One4All4Ever said:

I saw some documentary a while back (can't remember what exactly, so I have no actual "source" ) but they were talking about the pros and cons of using corn for fuel. They said if we really focused on that, and started to use it in a big way, that the amount of corn needed to produce enough for lots of fuel and the process it has to go through to get it to that stage and available to the masses, it would actually harm the environment as well. (horrible run-on sentence there! )

It seems were doomed. We've already fucked things up beyond repair that's pretty clear.

3.05 to 3.09 some places here in va

Mach said:

We're about in the same boat.

MsLegs said:

Thats about 40 miles from here in TN

western NC is 3.24 a gallon

I fill up in TN 2 times a week when I pick up JT from college and take him back each weekend

He doesn't like to stay on campus during the weekends cuz every one gets stupid drunk and stoned NOT his idea of fun

speaking of ... I am out the door to get him now