Gas was $3.70 today for regular. At what price will I start having to fight for a bike parking space in my parking lot. At 5-6 if the clowns dont park properly, or if any of the bikes are monstrosities like the goldwing, there isn't any more space where I park. And I am yet to see more than 2.
I constantly see expedetions and suburban's with 1 person.
So I am going to conclude that 3.70 for gas is actually reasonable and I am blessed to live in such a wealthy city. How is it in your city ???
Further more parking lots are $6 a spot per day, no in/out. I am going to conclude that is also good, we are living in a city flush with riches.
Parking lots are overflowing, so much so that there isn't parking for several blocks from the center of the city. That must be because all of them are super rich people ... all of them, and are happy to sit in traffic for hours ( they are rich and have a lot of spare time) to get to work, where they have to drive their car/truck/SUV occupy several 100's of blocks worth just to ahve their cars at their finger tips and just relax.
And the same thnig happens day after day, week after week, month after month. I am sorry for being poor, I should tell the people of my fair city where all the people are flush with cash and spare time and all the kids are above average, and all the women are super models ... ummm where was I ... Yea ... and for being a stain on your perfect utopia.
I can only hope that gasoline does not go any higher, god forbid it hits $4 or gasp even more a gallon ... I do not have any idea how I can cope with that. Maybe ride my savage which can give me 50 + miles to a gallon instead of the 35 per gal of the virago.
But I am still very sorry for not understanding the wealth and spare time that has flowed through this beautiful city. Thanks all you rich people. Thanks for allowing me to even breathe your air.
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Buddha.
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Your rant would have been a good addition to this thread:
http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=41114.0 (http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=41114.0)
Don't forget the other side of the equation. The dollar is dropping like a stone due to incredible debt and trade imbalance. Yet we are spending billions of dollars a year occupying Iraq. We spend billions paying Bechtel, Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater and others to perform jobs that used to be done by the military itself. We pay them in spite of poor performance (or even the deaths of soldiers due to their negligence or incompetence). A cynical person might even say that's why we're still there...
If the dollar were still equivalent to the Euro (which it was less than ten years ago when the Euro came about), oil would be in the $60 range per barrel. Still high, historically, but infinitely more manageable.
How smart was it to finance an elective war with borrowed money? We're all finding out right now.
Oh yea we are in a very very rich city, so we can afford all the extra threads we want, no need to add to any one's threads ... after all, that's like buying something that wasn't ... y'know nice and purty ...
Anyway, dollar is dropping like a rock cos the govt is printing it like its going out of style, and they have hidden the money in circulation to keep everyone in the dark and blame this or that for it.
Blame the random housing porn on TV, the need to buy and hold on to inspite of not having a use for sheite ... and blame bad monetary policy ... but I blame it all on the reluctance of americans to change their addiction to large lumbering automobiles and of course huge ass houses in far flung suburbs to keep them ... which is at the center of my rant.
Buy a bike you dumbasses (which is moot on a bike site ... yea I know that ... but the SUV sites banned me ... for life), and maybe you wont need the 300 gallons a month to keep your fat ass in AC comfort for the 1-3 hours you commute in, and you can park in the space your front wheel occupies, enjoy free parking and get you to work with a greatly smaller footprint on the infrastructure and environment.
If the oil consumption drops to a fourth of what it is imagine what costs of gas will be. Its all supply and demand. Public transport, or human powered transport and failing all that, personal transport that just about transports you. I cannot wait for $10 a gal gas, maybe then the rich people of this city will have to think about singly occupied SUV's.
BTW bikes aren't dangerous ... without the other vehicles in large numbers, the size of an average building roaming the roads free. Mice are unlikely to get trampled if everythign around them are mouse sized. Drop a mouse in the path of a herd of stampedeing wildebeests and you have a nice recipie for disaster ... so ... a mouse is very dangerous ??? yea right mindless herd of trampling beasts.
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Yea it's like "Hey, I'm a marketing manager who commutes to the city for work everyday. I drive alone, so of course I need car that can seat 12 and is equipped to drive across arctic tundra..."
These jerks won't settle down until they've ruined it for the rest of us.
I wish I could make my Japanese Mini truck road legal here in PA :icon_mrgreen: 50 MPG and I can haul my bike in it :thumb:
srinath-
nice rant, that one could be on the Best Of section of craiglist.
yes, we are dumb, slow, boring, and uninventive. we throw away money and time (the time is even more appalling!) sitting in cars huge enough to haul 20 'normal' sized humans across the dessert. the really sad thing is that if gas creeps to $4.50 or $5 a gallon slowly, no one will notice.
Sure, they'll Buddha Loves You about it at the water cooler, but oh f%$k no will they give up their SUV's ! What would the neighbors think if someone had to 'downgrade' by buying an older, more fuel efficient, sensible car ? A 'four banger' ? Hell no ! This is ameri-communin-ca !
I've heard neighbors talking about how terrible their fillups are, some are $80, some $120, for a tank of gas. When I say "Well, maybe your tank is too big, and your mileage too low ?" they look at me with deceit. Why ? Got me, we're not supposed to think and act, only complain.
Now the part about losing motorcycle spots is pretty messed up. Real bikers don't need the 'gas crunch' wannabes messing up our exclusivity !
Nice rant. :)
if we were allowed to drill for our own oil, prices would be a bit more reasonable. in the long term, yes, mass transit, alternative energy would be good :thumb:
I dont care about prices, I am just like ... why the F%^K do we need to haul 4500 lbs of crap every time we get out of our house.
BTW bikes ... if only we started making them in the numbers the cars are made, their prices will drop to 2-3K for a GS type.
I cannot wait for a oil shock. Cars and suv's and what ever have to just be priced out of common people's lives. They take up a lot of room, strain the infrastructure, ruin the environment, cost a lot to make in terms of material and energy and cost a lot to use in terms of materials and energy. Melt down a suv and you can prolly make 10 bikes.
I'd almost say, they should take a bike like a ninja 250, fuel inject it, and put it in 2-3 different body styles and make a few million of it. Complete with a electrical outlet for your electric suit. I'll bet it wont be 2K, better yet, it can be made in USA by GM/Ford etc, and as you start replacing cars and SUV's promptly the fatal crashes will also start going down.
In fact take it one extra step - make it total FFV or bio diesel/regular diesel, and see what that does to our fuel prices. See if 10% of the suv's were replaced by ninja 250's it will greatly reduce the load on our infrastructure and on oil prices.
BTW it doesn't have to be a ninja 250 I'll take any sensibly designed and equipped small bike as a commuter, the GS just is that much further away cos its air cooled and its got some $$$ options - like perimeter frame.
Ofcourse you park your Beautiful new SUV in your driveway so your neighbors still know you are wealthy and have lots of time, and you use it to make grocery store runs so you can still let the neighbors 2-3 miles away know that you're still wealthy. BTW insurance policies also have to change to count this in. I use my truck 1 day out of 10 and that too after work only, why am I still paying insurance on it like I am driving it all the time ... BS rules written in by politicians who are in detroit's back pocket.
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Buddha.
Oh, BTW, I also believe that oil is a product that is made by the earth as its core burns and generates hydrocarbons and that gets trapped in various pockets and liquefies and sloly gets to larger chain hydrocarbons and starts to ooze through the layers onto the surface.
How else do you explain the fact that dead oil fields start producing crude afresh and the production is often of higher quality than what was originally produced. The one in gulf of mexico is a classic example. That still doesn't mean you pump it all out and burn it without discretion.
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ktm is comming out with a production diesel bike , that the us millitary uses now
yeah, been out for a bit, i want one :thumb:
It should also be able to use biodiesel.
This is 1 thought I have ... you have a little pump that can pump out the carbs, or you do it manually also. Then the bio diesel tank has a hose that runs through it with engine coolant ... there is a small diesel tank ~1 gal, and a large biodiesel tank. When cold and the bio diesel has coagulated, you start it with diesel, as motor gets warm, it should melt the bio diesel, and as it happens and you get a light that comes on in the dash that says bio diesel is ready, you switch to it. Ride with that till you stop and pump the floats back into the main bio diesel tank. If its a short stop, or its a hot day, you can re start it with bio diesel and not with diesel ... but if it gets cold and freezes, you use the diesel.
Anyway, diesel is also a petroleum product. It also makes ton of pollution and particles.
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