August may be vacation time for many people, but our reliance on foreign oil didn’t take any time off.

In August alone we imported 355 million barrels of oil and sent $25.2 billion overseas – the most spent on foreign oil out of any month this year.

We are digging ourselves deeper into a hole every day and our economy and security are suffering.

 

being laid off and not driving anywhere, you would think I contributed to saving....apparently someone's making up for it and then some.

 

You know, I sold my Saturn to Carmaxx a couple months ago, and was chatting with the salesman (he knew I wasn't buying). I asked what was selling in this bad economy; he said he couldn't get enough SUV's, they were flying off the lot. I asked him Why? He said, people have short memories... They've already forgotten $4/gal gas. In the months since, I've noticed that people are driving big pickups as commuters again, whereas a year ago the roads were full of older small cars (looked like people's hand-me-down cars for the kids).

I'd be afraid to ask what the average IQ in this country is anymore.

 

I know that if I was working and not so damn sick I couldn't affort to make it go.

I used to drive between 75,000-100,000 miles a year. Since April this year I'm just over 600 - no mistake six hundred miles.

I have a 97 explorer 4x4 that just topped 50,000 - I ask a good friend of mine who is a used car dealer what it's worth - $500 trade in - $0 - zero would'nt want it taking up space on his Lot.

When I bought it I needed a snow-go for work

 

i won't go into what i think is wrong with our country or the person so many of you elected { back to the comment on peeps iq levels concerning him ! } , but whats the difference fella's in a sport ute or you .me , and the rest of us in our trucks and hot rods ??? everyone knows if mine is together and running i drive it . it's my choice , and i'm the one working to feed it , not anyone else . i don't understand the suv thing , never have . got no reason to own something capable of moving the grandaughters whole soccer team and equipment inside it in one fell swoop . the wifes mini van does ok on fuel , and when i'm not at work { hah hah i'm always there ! } the beater i got does fine too , about 18-22 in town if i'm not being aggressive in it . they can't sell new cars , and this is my opinion , because they are ugly poorly designed , overpriced , OVERLY COMPLICATED , expensive to the nth degree , pieces of plastic crap !!!!!!!!!!!! imported fuel ???? well i realize we walk a fine line on preserving our ecosystems and exploration , but if all the d-m- tree huggers would ease up if the co.s walk softly and return the areas to what they once were , we might be able to extract some of our own . oh yeah most of the self righteous tree hugger elect our socialist leader , save the world peeps are the ones in the biggest guzzlers , and most wasteful peeps i have seen !!!!!!!!!! bring on alternative fuels , and such , no electric cars here though , and who cares how much we use as it's those who's doing it right too . now this troglodyte is gonna go back to his cave before i say something to po someone .......... economy . hhhaaaaruuumph ... let's try some more scare tactics and oh yeah further in debt ... tell fearless dummy to stop spending what washington don't have and burying us even further , and slap him senseless for apologizing on his knees in front of a foreign dignitary for our behavior . whiny a---.............. wannabe emo socialist ........................gotta go the overlords will be along now to censor this ................. later fella's !!!!

 

oh yeah a parting shot here to all of you in a dain hurry . if you slow down , leave earlier and give yourself time , drive like you got some dain brains you can , would and will get better mileage . or in other words learn to drive responsibly and smart . that's why i get the mileages i get in things , i'm not in a rush , and i'm not in a race . i don't, nor do you need to break the sound barrier to get to somewhere like yesterday .... the world and everyone in it is in to big of a hurry ! slow down and you' be suprized mileage and otherwise .

 

Our politicians had demonized the idea of drilling for more oil in our own country. We have ample supplies off both coasts as well as huge deposits in the shale areas of the NM/UT, Anwar in Alaska, etc. The politicians want the cost of gasoline to go higher and higher. Once it reaches about $5/gal then people will be forced to get into those little Yugo-type cars or buy $30-40K hybrids. (Nobody ever talks about replacing the batteries every 10 years and where do you dispose of those things?) We've got over 100 years of oil left, but the politicians are artificily causing a shortage.

Vote them out so that we can:

DRILL HERE-DRILL NOW! Bring back $1.00/gas

JAG

 

I drove 3300 vacation miles in August, sucking down 500 gallons of gas.. so I more than made up for your reduced demand.

Sam

 

lol, at least someone with an effie did it.

 

That's 6 mpg; were you driving a semi?! Must be an RV?

My F-1 is the only vehicle I own that gets less than 30 mpg. If I'd have known gas would get this pricey, I'd never have built it. Not like I ever meant it to be a daily driver, but it costs me $6 to drive it to work. It won't get any better.

 

ross i only get8 mpg in town due to the way mines geared and prolly 'bout what sams doing or worse on the road , screaming at 45 - 50 mph . and he's got a whole lot more under the hood than me .............. my lil' trip to florida , the time down there and the trip back took about 83 gallons for roughly 3000 miles , obviously not in the fifty three or it'd be the other way around , 3000 gallons for 83 miles