cheap gas, dig out the old Caddy: Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas...

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas hog of them all, tail fins and all.

Kevyn

pappadeux wrote:

Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas hog of them all, tail fins and all.

Great idea pal, get the biggest gas hog you can and send all of the extra cash you have laying around over to those Arab oil sheiks, what could go wrong? It is not like any of that money could be misused. Or you could conserve fuel, isn't that what conservitives are supposed to do?

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

Kevyn wrote:

Great idea pal, get the biggest gas hog you can and send all of the extra cash you have laying around over to those Arab oil sheiks, what could go wrong? It is not like any of that money could be misused. Or you could conserve fuel, isn't that what conservitives are supposed to do?

buy up all the old clunkers you can and send them the Islamic Middle East as a gift in hopes that they kill each other since they drive like wild women s---, all over the place

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Cheap gas ..... I think that Russia will think twice the next time the bear defies the middle east. This is the fallout....and Russia's economy is tanking.

Anyway, the prices will continue to fall until February and then expect for the prices to rocket back up to $100 a barrel. Also, expect the stock market to tank dropping half it's gains..... back to the drop off of 2002. If you have not diversified, now is the time. Just watch the prime lending rate... when it goes up, the market will tumble.

Good luck!

pappadeux wrote:

Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas hog of them all, tail fins and all.

bigmtman

pappadeux wrote:

Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas hog of them all, tail fins and all.

Awww! Don't be so hard on the Caddys. Over twenty years ago my Caddy got 25 mpg on a trip while my 4 cyl Ford Tempo got 26 mpg on the same trip. The Caddy was 8 cyl and out weighed the Tempo by half a ton. My current '05 Deville gets 20-22 mpg locally and 26 mpg on a trip.
BUT, in 1967 I had a 4 cyl Renault R-10 that got 35 mpg on a trip. No one believed me. It had a 4 speed, Michelins, and rack and pinion. Handled like a sports car.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

bigmtman wrote:

Awww! Don't be so hard on the Caddys. Over twenty years ago my Caddy got 25 mpg on a trip while my 4 cyl Ford Tempo got 26 mpg on the same trip. The Caddy was 8 cyl and out weighed the Tempo by half a ton. My current '05 Deville gets 20-22 mpg locally and 26 mpg on a trip.
BUT, in 1967 I had a 4 cyl Renault R-10 that got 35 mpg on a trip. No one believed me. It had a 4 speed, Michelins, and rack and pinion. Handled like a sports car.

You are right about your Caddy. I recall selling these cars from the 50's Caddy's from that era not only got great MPG. but were great runners and drivers. I recall a 57 I had and it got as you said 25MPG. Sometime after with all the add ons, not so good. To make matters worst during the Rodger Smith years GM took a dive for the worst. Recently I sold a few late 90's Caddy's Not so good. They were so many problems that we at the shop called them 'crapalacs' I just hope for the sake of GM and our country that the later generations of GM cars are a big improvement. most of the new ones have proven above average. As for myself I prefer Buick's ' the thinking mans Cadillac '

Caboose Loc: South Carolina

pappadeux wrote:

Gas in 1959 was about 25 cents a gallon, and when the gas wars broke out it dropped to a low of 15 cents. So let us splurge and buy the biggest gas hog of them all, tail fins and all.

Nice cartoon. Sure hope it gets below a dollar. The oil thugs have
been robbing us since the gulf war. Some people are saying the
falling prices are because of a bad economy. Robbery is really
whats wrong.

Kevyn

Caboose wrote:

Nice cartoon. Sure hope it gets below a dollar. The oil thugs have
been robbing us since the gulf war. Some people are saying the
falling prices are because of a bad economy. Robbery is really
whats wrong.

Sadly as it gets cheaper folks will start to waste it buy less efficient cars and the price will take off again.

rocketride

Kevyn wrote:

Great idea pal, get the biggest gas hog you can and send all of the extra cash you have laying around over to those Arab oil sheiks, what could go wrong? It is not like any of that money could be misused. Or you could conserve fuel, isn't that what conservitives are supposed to do?

Funny, the last thing I thought would ever happen, when I bought my Prius (4 years ago) was that I'd see sub-$3.00 gasoline again. Oh, well, I still save on fill-ups, just not so much each time.

rocketride

Caboose wrote:

Nice cartoon. Sure hope it gets below a dollar. The oil thugs have
been robbing us since the gulf war. Some people are saying the
falling prices are because of a bad economy. Robbery is really
whats wrong.

The 'oil thugs' have two aims with this price drop, although only one is getting much press.

1) They're not real happy with Putin's sabre-rattling, either and are trying to destabilize the Russian economy.

2) They're trying to make further North American oil and gas exploration less attractive because, well, more capacity that they don't control is hardly good for them, is it?

rocketride

pappadeux wrote:

You are right about your Caddy. I recall selling t... (show quote)

For a while there, they were butt-ugly, too. It was like they had hired designers from the Zil plant in Russia.