gas, the new car payment.Follow

Averaging about 36 miles per US gallon (43mpg UK), but it's mostly urban driving and thrashing it on open roads.

What's killing me is how gas prices are driving everything else up. Food especially. Milk, bread, meat, all that stuff is getting outrageous now. I know it's not just gas prices driving it up, but also the use of corn to experiment with alternative fuels. It's a necessary evil, but I still hate paying for it.

I saw something on PBS the other day where they said the scientists are going to start looking at something other than corn in the future, but damned if I can remember what.

There were a few things I was reading about...but I remember sugar cane for some reason. I think we were actually talking about it on here?

I could look, but meh.

Nexa

Sales of canned meat rise as consumers trim food costs.

Are you eating spam yet?

Jonwin drove the Geo Metro until the engine died one block from the garage, where it was last work on.

Since then if we need a car, we have either rented or barrow one from family. we live near a bus line that takes Jonwin right to work and can get us to to most places we need, as long as we allow extra time. When we need cat food or litter, and major food items, we ask my daughter if she will take us the next time they go to the store. We give some money for gas, though her boyfriend doesn't always take it. Then I just give it to daughter behind his back.

One way fare on the bus is $1.60; $0.55 for over elderly/Disable.

All day pass is $3.50: $1.20 for elderly/Disable.

Monthly pass for elderly/Disable is $16.50. I don't pay attention to cost of regular monthly pass prices, as it cheaper for Jonwin to pay one way to and from work, or get daily pass if he knows he'll be taking more then 2 buses. He is should have a disable ID and now has the paperwork needed to fill out.

We find not having a car and taking a bus, is well worth the savings in gas, monthly car payments and insurance.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/ny-bzalge0530,0,3756031.story

For example.

Any plant material could be used, in principle, however some are easier then others.

see my above post, now you GTFO **** ant.

So if I wasn't posting on Alla, I had no way of seeing this coming? Is that what you're saying? Thats some ego, there, Jackson.

Elne, if I could take a bus I would. But where I live, there is no public transportation. The area's just not large enough.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but most SUVs I've seen don't transport more people than your regular sedan--around 5 if you pack 'em in. Frankly, it's a mystery to me why anyone buys the damned things, because I've never seen how they are considered to have that much more room. If you've got a big family and have to drive something with 6 cylinders despite astronomical fuel prices, suck it up and get a minivan. I swear to you, your ***** and balls will not, in fact, shrivel and die if you do.

So, yeah, sign me up with the ********** you, SUV drivers, you're getting what you fully and justifiably deserve for not having an iota of ******* common sense" club.

Take the seats out of my Toyota Sienna and you can haul just about any dining room table you want, though I will confess that it probably won't survive a journey through the mud and wilderness as well as an SUV would.

But on that issue, I'm inclined to agree with the Miller beer ad about SUVs.

I was stuck in some office somewhere with only a new-age agriculture magizine to read (can't for the life of me remember where I was), but it talked about a whole bunch of viable plant stuff. Mostly it seemed a high cellulose content was the key for easy conversion to ethanol.

Governemnt programs are just fuckin' it up.

What does Barry say about energy?