Cars and other kinds of motoring gibberish

ahochaude wrote:Yup. But the bus system here sucks. Either early or late of scheduled time. Gotta make sure that you leave extra early 'just in case'. :grumble:

are you sure your roots are okinawans? uchinanchu's are famous for getting to places in "okinawa time". (late)

The Chevron near at my freeway exit just raised their prices:

91 octane: $3.09 :bleh:

89 octane: $2.99 :mecry:

87 octane: $2.89 :grumble:


Note that this gas station tends to be overpriced since I'm in a nice neighborhood uphill from the airport... I can commonly find another Chevron 20c to 25c a gallon cheaper on the Peninsula.
-PCM

u people in US dont know what fuel cost means guys ... out here in france it is so fkin high .... can be like 1+ euro per litre .... not gallon .. per litre .

even public transport is pretty costly .. just a local metro ticket in paris is like 1.20 euro ... not $ ..

from outside paris to come to paris is even more .. :shakehead: :shakehead:

but one thing is that in Paris u dont need a car ... metro metro mooore than sufficient ..but then the city is also not soo BIG ...

BUT WHO CARES OF FUEL COST WITH a ferrari ... ahem ahem not yet .. in time in time ... thats why i am saving money by not buying to many 20$ dvd's :):) ;);)

z123_us wrote:u people in US dont know what fuel cost means guys ... out here in france it is so fkin high .... can be like 1+ euro per litre .... not gallon .. per litre .

even public transport is pretty costly .. just a local metro ticket in paris is like 1.20 euro ... not $ ..

from outside paris to come to paris is even more .. :shakehead: :shakehead:

but one thing is that in Paris u dont need a car ... metro metro mooore than sufficient ..but then the city is also not soo BIG ...

BUT WHO CARES OF FUEL COST WITH a ferrari ... ahem ahem not yet .. in time in time ... thats why i am saving money by not buying to many 20$ dvd's :):) ;);)

WOW....u manke it sound way expensive, wats the money conversion from Euro to US$

K.T.Tran wrote:

WOW....u manke it sound way expensive, wats the money conversion from Euro to US$

dude ...moves between 1.3 - 1.35 ... and u must know that salary is higher in general in US .. soo ... my FERRARI is waiting eagerly for me to work on my bank balance ... but in france petrol is costly ..

pcmodem wrote:The Chevron near at my freeway exit just raised their prices:

91 octane: $3.09 :bleh:

89 octane: $2.99 :mecry:

87 octane: $2.89 :grumble:

:shocked:

Note that this gas station tends to be overpriced since I'm in a nice neighborhood uphill from the airport... I can commonly find another Chevron 20c to 25c a gallon cheaper on the Peninsula.
-PCM

But still: :shocked:

pcmodem wrote:The Chevron near at my freeway exit just raised their prices:

91 octane: $3.09 :bleh:

89 octane: $2.99 :mecry:

87 octane: $2.89 :grumble:


Note that this gas station tends to be overpriced since I'm in a nice neighborhood uphill from the airport... I can commonly find another Chevron 20c to 25c a gallon cheaper on the Peninsula.

Yeowch. And there's still people pulling in to the place, right?

And the gas in California is always higher than the rest of the country because of the special mix that we have to use to "reduce" air pollution... :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:And the gas in California is always higher than the rest of the country because of the special mix that we have to use to "reduce" air pollution... :beaten:

So thats the reason why!?!?!?!?!?! geez....i need to get updated on everything thats going on in California, need to know why im spending so much money

K.T.Tran wrote:So thats the reason why!?!?!?!?!?! geez....i need to get updated on everything thats going on in California, need to know why im spending so much money

Real estate, gasoline, etc. are pretty high in California... Makes you wonder why people keep coming here to live, though some are bailing out to Nevada...

bmwracer wrote:though some are bailing out to Nevada...

A lot of people from Hawaii move up to Nevada. All the people I talk to (before they moved to Nevada) gave me the same reason. "Hawaii is too expensive. Nevada is cheaper." I wouldn't go though. Living in a desert does not sound like fun. :beaten: :sweat:

in the US ... do u have different pollution regulations for different states !!!

ahochaude wrote:A lot of people from Hawaii move up to Nevada. All the people I talk to (before they moved to Nevada) gave me the same reason. "Hawaii is too expensive. Nevada is cheaper." I wouldn't go though. Living in a desert does not sound like fun. :beaten: :sweat:

California's a desert for the most part. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
California's a desert for the most part. :beaten:

No wonder you love the weather there! :hehe:

z123_us wrote:in the US ... do u have different pollution regulations for different states !!!

No, just California I think.

California tries to be the leader in various things: air quality standards, environmentalism, liberal politics, technology, etc....

with governor also ..ARNIEE ... hehehehe

z123_us wrote:in the US ... do u have different pollution regulations for different states !!!

yep. here in viriginia we have what one would call emissions test. it's required before you can get your car registered every year/other yr. My bro from Florida is like wha tthe heck is that? those inspections aren't required there.

I think (correct me if i'm wrong, BM) that california has strictest emission/pollution tests in the U.S.

niko2x wrote:I think (correct me if i'm wrong, BM) that california has strictest emission/pollution tests in the U.S.

Right on, brother. :applaud:

That's why we need that special fuel mix... Yet our air quality hasn't really gotten that much better...

but does it really make sense ... !! ..

i mean a car/ factory etc have emission limits .. which must be common or at least should be common .. its like florida can pollute more while calif cannot ... strange approach !! :bonk:

so the moral of the story is: don't move to california if you are going to buy a car. hahahaha. (and besides, who can afford to move there and buy a house these days?)

it's also got a lot to do with the concentration of drivers we have in cali. We're a big state but the majority of the population is crammed into a few population centers (so-cal and sf area for starters). that and so-cal is so spread out that everyone that can drives everywhere. plus at least in la we've got the foothills to our backs so the smog and polution just settles in the valley. it's a rather cool sight when the sun catches the smog just right, downtown sometimes looks like a cloud city :shamefulcry:
-g out